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Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Blackboard's Inline Grading Tool for Assignments


What is Inline Assignment Grading?

Instead of requiring instructors to download student-submitted ‘assignment’ files to view or edit those submissions, instructors are now be able to view student-submitted files “inline,” i.e. in the web browser, without requiring any plugins, applets, or client-side applications. Annotation tools are included with the inline viewer, enabling you to provide feedback including comments, highlights, and even drawings/annotations directly on the inline view of the document. Supported document types that can be converted are Word (DOC, DOCX), PowerPoint (PPT, PPTX), Excel (XLS, XLSX), and PDF (PDF).

Known Issues: 1) Students cannot annotate documents, 2) This does not work with SafeAssign, and 3) Annotation sessions expires after an hour, so if an instructor takes longer than an hour to annotate a document, annotations made after that session expiration may not be saved.
 
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