Assignment Grades

Grade Assignments
  1. From the Assessments menu within a D2L course, select Assignments.
  2. Select the Assignment Title or New Submissions number.

    Note:

    If the number of new submissions is selected, it will open directly to those submissions.


    title of the assignment example
  3. Select the student submission to open the file and annotation toolbar.
    student submission to open the file example
  4. Enter a score, feedback, and/or add annotations.
    There are many ways to include feedback for student submissions.
  5. Select Publish or Save Draft.
    • Publish will make both the score and feedback immediately available to students.
    • Save Draft will save the score and feedback to be released later.
Publish Feedback for Assignments
  1. From the Assessments menu within a D2L course, select Assignments.
  2. Select the Assignment Title.
  3. Select Publish All.
    It is possible to publish all feedback for group submissions.
  4. Select Yes to confirm.
Annotations Toolbar

Annotations tool example

  1. Document View: Thumbnails (default), Outline, Bookmarks.
  2. Page forward and back: Access specific pages of a multi-page document.
  3. Page Layout: Page Mode, Page Transition, Page Rotation.
  4. Pan Mode: Drag the page up and down.
  5. Zoom Out/Zoom In: Zoom in and out of the document.
  6. Fit Page: Fit the document page to the annotation tool window.
  7. Annotations: Annotation tools include:
    • Drawing, Freeform Highlight, Text Highlight, Eraser
    • Note
    • Text
    • Line, Arrow, Rectangle
  8. Print: Print the file.
  9. Search Document: Search the file for specific terms.
  10. Download: Download the file.
  11. Toggle Fullscreen: View the file in fullscreen.

Note:

Annotations does not currently meet WCAG 2.0 AA guidelines. If a student who uses a screen reader or has a documented accommodation, please continue to use the Comments field for feedback or download the assignment and make changes to the Word document itself to share with that student.