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How do I submit an assignment?
Brightspace allows students to submit assignments to their instructor online. The assignment will then be graded by the instructor. The instructor may also provide feedback which you will be able to view.
- Submit/Upload an assignment
Assignment due date vs. end date
If you are having difficulty uploading an assignment file, visit this guide: My Assignment file isn’t Uploading Properly .
Updated September 2021 Printable version
Submit/Upload an assignment
Your assignment may have three dates associated with it:
The start date is when the assignment is open for submissions. You might be able to view the instructions before this, but you will not be able to submit anything until the start date.
The due date is when the assignment is due. You must submit your assignment by this time in order for it to be accepted as “ on time .”
The end date is when the assignment is no longer open for submissions. If the end date is later than the due date, that means the instructor will accept late submissions. Remember that if you submit your assignment after the due date, but before the end date, it will be marked as late .
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Online learning, submit assignment on student’s behalf.
You can submit an assignment on behalf of your student if they send the assignment via email or on paper or observed in person, after the assignment past the due and/or the end date. This is also for evaluating non-submissions and external submissions assignments.
- Who is this for: Online Instructors
- What is required: A D2L Brightspace course shell and an Assignment area
- Go to the Assignment link in the navbar
- Click on the Assignment’s name to view submissions
- From the Users tab, click Show Search Options link
- Select “Users without submissions” from the Submissions list
- You should see a list of students who haven’t submitted any assignment. Click Evaluate next to the student you would like to grade
- Click Add a file to add the student’s assignment file (if available or if student send it to you via email). You can also add your own feedback file.
- Provide student’s grade when you’re ready in the Score text area. Feel free to add audio or video feedback using the Record Audio or Record Video (limited to 3 minutes and as an attached file that students need to click). If you use a rubric, you can also assess using the rubrics tool.
- Click the Publish button to save the changes. You can click Save as Draft if you’re not ready to release the assessment to the student. If you need to retract or make changes to the grade after you publish, repeat step 3 through 5 to find the student again and click on Published link. After making your changes, Update , or if you retract your assessment, click Retract
Students: Assignments:Submit
1. submit: turn assignments into an assignment folder (dropbox).
Submit files to an Assignment folder (dropbox) to be evaluated.
Note: You will not be able to submit if using special characters in the name of the file you are attempting to upload. For the best chance at success use only letters, numbers and spaces.The specific list of characters that D2L will reject is: < > : " / \ | ? *
Note: You must click the Submit button to successfully submit the files. Frequently students go through all the steps and close the browser before clicking the Submit button.
- Click the name of the assignment to which you want to submit a file.
- Click the Add a File button.
- Either click on the Upload button to navigate to the file on your computer or drag and drop the file into the target area.
- Once the file has been added, click the Add button.
- You can add additional files be repeating steps 3 - 4 above.
- Click Submit .
- A confirmation window appears, verifying that you have successfully submitted the file(s) and confirming that an email receipt has been sent.
- Click Done.
- Verify that the file was submitted by returning to assignments and make sure that there is not a 0 in the submissions column for the assignment. If there is, then you did not successfully submit the file.
2. Submit: Create audio files in assignment folder
Create an audio file to submit to an Assignment folder.
- Click the name of the assignment to which you want to create and submit an audio file.
- If you get a pop up asking to allow d2l.arizona.edu to access your microphone, select Allow .
- Click Add .
- Enter a description.
- Click Submit.
3. Submit: Create video files in assignment folder
Create a video file to submit to an Assignment folder.
- Click the name of the assignment to which you want to create and submit a video file.
- Click the Record Video button.
- If you get a pop up asking to give flash access to your camera and microphone, select Allow and Remember.
- Click the Add button .
- Add a title and description and click the Add button.
4. View: View feedback on submitted assignments
After turned in assignments have been graded, view feedback from the instructor.
- Click on Assignments in the navbar.
- The score and any feedback the instructor gave is listed in the Feedback section of the page.
- Click Done to exit the Feedback page.
5. Tips and Troubleshooting: Submitting assignments
Having trouble uploading Assignments?
General Issues
- Do you have any special characters such as \ / : * ? " < > | ~ # % & + { } in the file name? D2L does not accept those characters and will prevent the file from uploading. Try renaming the file.
- How long is the file name? We recommend that you keep the file name under 45 characters.
- Are there any leading or trailing spaces in the file name? Delete any leading or trailing spaces.
- Are there one or two periods before the file extension (for example ..doc)? There should be only one.
- Does the file have a valid file extension (such as .doc, .docx, .pdf)?
- Word documents often save two files, one is the document file: assignment.docx and the other is a temporary file: ~$assignment.docx. Ensure you are uploading the actual document and not the temporary file, as the temporary file will not open and contains no data.
File size
- The maximum file size which can be uploaded in D2L is 1GB per file. Audio, video, and media rich PowerPoint presentations can result in large files.
- File size can be reduced if there are images in the file by reducing the resolution or size of the images.
- If there are many pages in the file, split the document into two files, Part A pages 1-10, and Part B pages 11 - 21.
Internet Connection
- Files are uploaded in D2L in 10MB chunks and times out if a 10MB chunk takes longer than 2 minutes to upload. It may appear that your file is continuing to upload after the two minutes, however it is not.
- Your upload speed is dependent on your internet connection.
- We recommend uploading from a wired connection rather than wireless whenever possible.
Note: When submitting an assignment in D2L, it is imperative to allow enough time for the file to upload. If your file does not finish uploading before the end date deadline for the assignment, your file will not be submitted. Do not wait until the last minute to upload your file.
- We recommend using Chrome or Firefox.
- If your browser is being unresponsive, you may need to clear your cache. Browser specific steps are detailed here: https://refreshyourcache.com/en/home/ .
- Switch to a different browser.
If you have tried these things and continue to experience problems, contact the D2L team .
6. View: View Turnitin Originality score and sources
How to view Turnitin Originality score and sources.
- The Turnitin Similarity score is listed in the Turnitin Similarity column on the page.
7. Add: Code Snippets
You can add snippets of code to a text submission.
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Instructor Support for Educational Systems
- How do I create an Assignment?
Updated on Dec 15, 2022
This article will explain you can create an Assignment and the possibilities provided by the Assignment tool.
Table of Contents
Create an assignment, types of assignments.
- 'File submission'
- 'Text submission'
- 'On paper submission' and 'Observed in person'
Evaluation and Feedback
Creating a video-assignment, video on how to create an assignment.
Click here to watch a video on how to create an Assignment.
- Click Course Tools in the navbar of your course.
- Click Assignments . You will land on the Assignments homepage. Here, you will see an overview of all your assignments.
- Click New Assignment.
Important: If you want to create a group assignment , make sure to set up Groups beforehand. This way, students may work on an assignment together and you can assess group assignments.
- Provide the assignment with a title. This is displayed on the Assignments homepage.
- In Gradebook: Will create a new grade item in the Gradebook.
- Edit or Link to Existing: Selecting this will give you the option to Create and link to a new grade item or Link to an existing grade item .
- Not in Gradebook: The grade will not be added to the Gradebook.
- Reset to Ungraded: The assignment will not be graded. Make sure that the max. score you fill in here, matches the max. score of the grade item. For more information see here .
- Indicate a deadline at Has Due Date . Important: if you select Now as the due date this renders the Properties Assignment type and Submission type unchangeable. By clicking Now, you will set the actual deadline in motion. Make sure to communicate this deadline in advance with your students. For more information see here .
- Visible with access restricted : The assignment will show up in the Assignment List, but will not be accessible to students.
- Visible with submission restricted: The assignment will be accessible and students will be able to view the assignment information but not submit their work.
- Hidden : The assignment will not show up on the Assignment List for students.
- Add availability dates to Calendar: Selecting this will add the date(s) to your course calendar.
- You can give Instructions on the assignment by typing them in the HTML-editor box of Instructions.
- Click File upload to upload a File .
- Click Attach Link to Existing Activity to connect the assignment to an Existing Activity in Brightspace.
- Click Attach Weblink to place an external Link .
- Click Record Audio to upload or record an audio message.
- Click Record Video to upload or record a video message.
- Hidden from users is turned on by default when you create an assignment. This means that students cannot see the assignment. Deselect the option Hidden from users to make the assignment visible to students.
Are you creating a group assignment? Give the assignment a name that clearly indicates that it concerns a group assignment, to make sure that students hand in their group work at the correct assignment.
Under the tab Submission & Completion you can select the type of assignment and the submission type.
- Click Individual assignment if students must submit individual work and if they are assessed individually.
- Choose Group assignment if students must hand in one assignment per group, for which they will all receive the same group mark. Determine the Group Category to specify which groups have access to the assignment. Note: this option is only available if you have set up Groups beforehand.
- File submission . Students submit the assignment by uploading it in a file ( for example a Word- or PDF-file ).
- Text submission . Students can write and post a text, image or link to their work. A html-editor box provides an area for submission to this assignment type. For example, if students are required to make a web page, they can link it here.
- On paper submission . Students hand in their assignment via a hard copy. They do not have to upload it in the Assignment , but by using this option you can still provide and process feedback in the Grade Book. Note: you cannot use Turnitin with this option.
- Observed in person . You will provide feedback for an assignment done in class, or in a work-group. For example, this could be for a presentation or an assessment . You can process the assignment grade afterwards. Neither you nor the student have to upload a file in the Assignment . This option allows you to process feedback in Grade Book. Note: you cannot use Turnitin with this option.
Please note: If you intend on using Turnitin for your Brightspace assignment, always select File submission as your Submission type.
'File submission'
- Choose the amount of Files Allowed Per Submission . You can allow students to either upload multiple files ( Unlimited ) or only one ( One File ).
- Select the amount of Submissions allowed per student or group. You may choose: to save all submission attempts ( All submissions are kept ), only the most recent attempt ( Only the most recent submission is kept ), or allow only one submission attempt ( Only one submission allowed ).
- If you select the option ' Only the most recent submission is kept' when it concerns group assignments, be sure to communicate this to your students. If students split up the work among themselves and upload the files separately, only the last uploaded file will be saved. If you select the option ' Only one submission allowed' the assignment will be closed as soon as one of the group members has submitted something. Make sure to communicate this clearly to your students as well!
- If you want students to submit multiple files, choose ' Unlimited' in combination with ' All submissions are kept' .
'Text submission'
Choose how you would like to receive Submissions .
- If all submission attempts are saved, choose ' All submission are kept';
- If only the most recent attempts are saved, choose ' Only the most recent submission is kept';
- If students are allowed a single submission attempt, choose ' Only one submission allowed' .
'On paper submission' and 'Observed in person'
With Marked as completed you can select how a completed assignment is registered. This can be done:
- Manually by learners : the students register the completed assignment themselves in Brightspace.
- Automatically on evaluation : the assignment is completed by students once you have assessed it.
- Automatically on due date : the assignment is completed by students once the deadline has passed.
By providing your email address under Notification Email , you will receive an automated email for every student submission to the assignment. Note: separate multiple email addresses with a comma.
Under the Evaluation & Feedback tab you can:
- Add a Rubric .
- Enable Annotation Tools in case you want to use Brightspace's Annotation Tool to give inline feedback.
- Enable Anonymous Marking in case you want grade anonymously.
- Enable Turnitin by clicking Manage Turnitin.
You may include Video-assignments to let students submit a video. For this, the students must first upload a video to Kaltura and then submit it in the assignment. To create a video-assignment, you must select either ' File submission ' or ' Text submission ' when choosing your submission type. With:
- File submission : students have to hand in another file, aside from the video ( for example a text-file with a description or explanation ). Students upload this file in the assignment ( for example a Word- or PDF-file) and place the link to the video in the comment section in Kaltura.
- Text submission : students place the link to the video in Kaltura and they will have the option to add a short summary in the comment section of the assignment. Use this option if students do not need to hand anything else in, other than a video.
Furthermore, the optional settings for video-assignments are the same as for any other assignment.
This video is made by Brightspace supplier D2L. Some screens might have a different look and feel to the Universiteit Leiden Brightspace environment.
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- Getting to know Brightspace, short video
- Quick Start Guide for Instructors
- When do I get access to Brightspace and my courses?
- How do I log into Brightspace?
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- How do I navigate through the Brightspace Homepage?
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- How do I change my email notifications?
- How do I use pronouns in Brightspace?
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- How can I change the visibility of my course?
- How can I change the visibility of the content of my course?
- How can I view my course as a student?
- How do I use Manage Files?
- Short video: How to use the Course Builder (English only)
- How do I use the Course Builder?
- How do I copy the content from one Brightspace course to another Brightspace course?
- What information is (not) being copied when executing Course Copy?
- What are Replace strings and how do I use it?
- How do I organize the Course Home of a course?
- The name / code / semester of my course is incorrect, how can I change this?
- The different stages of your course
- Availability Date Defaults
- How do I use the Classlist?
- How do I add users to my course?
- How are students enrolled/unenrolled to courses?
- What are the permissions within a Course?
- How do I export the Classlist, including group or section enrollments?
- What is Special Access and how do I use it?
- Can I view submissions, contributions and grades of unenrolled and inactive students in Brightspace?
- How can I view grades of students who unenrolled from a course?
- What personal data do students see from instructors and fellow students?
- How to request the Education Administration Office within the Faculty of Humanties to unenroll students from your Brightspace course
- Content: An Overview
- What is the standard structure of a course?
- Short video: Leiden Course Model (English only)
- What is the standard course vocabulary?
- How do I structure my course with units/lessons/folders/topics?
- The optimal workflow for creating and adding content to your course
- How do I upload and add a file to Content?
- How do I create and add a HTML document to Content?
- How do I use HTML templates in my content?
- Short video: HTML Templates (English only)
- How do I create and add a Weblink to content?
- How do I upload a video to Kaltura and place it in the course content?
- How do I add Weblectures to my Course and Content?
- How do I add videos to Content?
- How do I add a document from the Copyright Repository to a course?
- How do I add a download link to a file in a course?
- How do I add SCORM/xAPI objects to my course?
- How do I add a link to an Assignment/Discussion/Quiz to my Content?
- How do I add Remindo to my course and Content?
- How do I add LabBuddy to my Course and Content?
- MedischOnderwijs.nl (manual)
- How do I adjust Content availability through Manage Dates?
- How do I adjust Content availability when adding or editing Content.
- How do I replace an existing document?
- Short video: How do I add content?
- How do I use the HTML editor?
- What files can be downloaded by students?
- How do I create a new Discussion via Content?
- Short video: how to use announcements
- How do I create an Announcement?
- How do I manage Announcements?
- Anonymous Marking - An Overview
- How do I assess an assignment using anonymous marking?
- How do I reveal a student's name in anonymous grading?
- Support for ANS
- Workflow Assignments
- Korte video: How to create an assignment (English only)
- How do I use Assignments?
- How do I set restrictions for an Assignment and/or set different (due) dates per group or sections of students?
- How can I use Assignments for groups?
- How do I attach a grade item to an assignment?
- How do I set up a Pass / Fail scheme in Assignments?
- How do I add and edit categories to manage assignments?
- How do I restore a deleted Assignment?
- Grading Assignments
- How do I assess an assignment offline?
- How do I assess an assignment with inline feedback?
- How do I assess a video assignment?
- How do I assess a group assignment?
- How do I use Pitch2Peer for assignments?
- How do I use Submission Logs with Assignments?
- How do I filter (non) submissions?
- How do I use the Attendance tool?
- What are Awards and how do I issue these to students?
- Add or create Awards
- How do I revoke and edit Awards?
- How do I delete awards?
- Brightspace Planning Tool Corona
- Using Groups for Lecture Attendance
- The Calendar widget
- How do I adjust settings in the Calendar?
- How do I share or print the Calendar?
- How do I use tasks in the Calendar?
- How do I create and use a Checklist?
- How do I add a checklist to Content?
- What is copyrighted material?
- How do I check whether literature is already available through a link and how do I add these to the concent?
- Short video: Learning Object Repository (English only)
- How do I upload documents to the Copyright Repository in the LOR?
- How do I edit the metadata of a document in LOR?
- Searching in the LOR
- Digital Examination: An Overview
- Korte video: Hoe maak je een Discussion aan (English only)
- How do I use the Discussions tool?
- How do I create a Discussion Forum and Topic?
- Which settings and restrictions can I add to discussion forums and topics?
- How do I create a discussion topic per group?
- How do I attach a grade item to a discussion topic?
- Grading Discussion Forums
- How can I control what discussion updates I receive?
- How do I use email in Brightspace?
- How do I place a FeedbackFruits module in my course?
- Support for FeedbackFruits
- Grades: An Overview & Short Videos
- Introduction to Brightspace Grades
- Choosing a Grade Scheme
- Example Gradebook: Weighted Grading System
- Examples Gradebook: Formula Grading System
- Grades Advanced Online Training
- Setting up the Gradebook for the first time with the Grades Setup Wizard
- Create Grade Categories
- Create Grade Items
- Set up Resits in your Gradebook
- How do I attach a grade item to a quiz?
- How do I use the Formula Editor?
- Grading Students
- Grading Quizzes
- Release Grades to your student
- How do I export Grades?
- How do I import Grades?
- Copy your Gradebook and Grade Settings to another course
- How does Remindo work with Grades?
- Working with Grades & Medischonderwijs
- How to delete a Grade item associated to an External Learning Tool?
- How do I export Grades for uSis?
- How do I use Groups?
- Korte video: Hoe maak ik Groepen? (English only)
- How do I create Groups?
- How can I manage Group Enrollments within my Course?
- How do I remove Groups?
- How do I use Lockers for Groups?
- What do students see in Groups and how do they use them?
- What is the difference between Groups and Sections?
- How can I see which students are in which group/section?
- How do I use Kaltura in my Brightspace course?
- How do I manage and edit my Kaltura videos?
- What is the course Kaltura Media Gallery?
- How do I add a Kaltura Live Room to my course?
- Why do I get an Access Denied message when I try to view Kaltura videos in Brightspace?
- MedischOnderwijs.nl (handleiding)
- Support for Medischonderwijs
- How does Microsoft Teams work in my Brightspace course?
- Who can create a MS Teams in a Brightspace course?
- Microsoft Teams Support and troubleshooting
- How do I use Quizzes?
- How do I create a quiz?
- What type of questions can I add to a Quiz?
- How do I edit a quiz?
- How do I use the Question Library?
- How do I add a quiz to Content?
- Quiz Statistics: where do I find them and what do they show me?
- How do I create a (statistical) report of a Quiz?
- How do I delete a student's quiz attempt?
- How do I publish feedback for a quiz?
- How can I preview what a student sees when handing in a quiz?
- How do I adjust the correct answer of a quiz after students have already submitted?
- Quizzes - Availability & Conditions
- Quizzes - Timing & Display
- Quizzes - Attempts & Completion
- Quizzes - Evaluation & Feedback
- All about Release Conditions, Manage Dates and Availability of your Content, Grades and Tools
- What are release conditions?
- How do I set up Release Conditions?
- Automatically Release Content for a certain time period, or after a certain date
- How do I use Manage Dates?
- Use case: Release Conditions and Start-End Dates for Assignments with Grade items
- Support for Remindo
- How do I use Rubrics?
- How do I create or edit a Rubric?
- How do I associate a Rubric to an Assignment or Discussion?
- How do I assess an assignment using a Rubric?
- Rubrics Good to Know and FAQ
- How do I create Surveys?
- How do I set up restrictions for a survey?
- How do I add a Survey and how do I edit a Survey in Content?
- How do I view the results of a survey?
- How do I create a report of a survey?
- How do I preview a survey?
- All about Turnitin
- 5 things I wish I knew before working with Turnitin Assignments
- How do I create a Turnitin Assignment?
- Restricting access to your Turnitin Assignment
- How do I assess Turnitin Assignments with Feedback Studio?
- How do I control when and how students see their Feedback and Grade for Turnitin Assignments?
- How do I transfer Turnitin Scores to Grades?
- How do I re-sync grades from Turnitin Feedback Studio to Brightspace after I Published Feedback?
- How do I assess Turnitin Assignments with Rubrics?
- How should I approach a Remote Exam with Turnitin?
- How do I use Anonymous Marking in combination with Turnitin?
- How do I set up Turnitin for a Group Assignment?
- How do I submit a file on behalf of a student in Turnitin?
- How do I download inline feedback in bulk from Turnitin.com?
- How do I regenerate a Similarity Report?
- Interpreting Turnitin's Similarity scores
- Create your own QuickMarks set and use this set as a default while evaluating Assignments in Feedback Studio
- Turnitin Expired Classes
- Tell me more on the More Options in Turnitin
- Turnitin Troubleshooting
- How does the Zoom link in Brightspace work?
- What is the correct way to log into Zoom via my Brightspace course?
- How can I set up separate Zoom meetings within a Brightspace Course?
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The Assignments tool enables you to submit assignments in Brightspace, eliminating the need to mail, fax, or email your work to instructors.
Submit/Upload an assignment · Click on Activities & Assessments. Find the desired assignment and click on it. · You will see your instructor's description of the
For questions regarding Brightspace, visit https://community.brightspace.com. Complete assessments and activities using Assignments.
This video will demonstrate how to submit an assignment within D2L Brightspace. Video will cover both text submission and file submission
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You can submit an assignment on behalf of your student if they send the assignment via email or on paper or observed in person, after the assignment past the
1. Submit: Turn assignments into an assignment folder (dropbox).
Click File upload to upload a File. · Click Attach Link to Existing Activity to connect the assignment to an Existing Activity in Brightspace.
If your class uses assignment links between Brightspace/D2L and zyBooks, first navigate toBrightspace/D2L. Go to where your assignments and
Part 1: Submitting an Assignment. 1. You will often have to submit your assignments in Brightspace. 2. From Assignments, you can preview the