Assess student work in Assignments in D2L Brightspace

Overview

For an overview, check out this setting up and evaluating assignments video in MediaSpace. 

Evaluate a student’s submission to an assignment

1. Navigate to the Assignments tool.
2. From the assignment menu, select View Submissions.
3. Select the Go to Evaluation link beside the name of the user you want to evaluate.
4. If you have a grade item associated with the assignment, enter a value in the Overall Grade field.
5. Provide comments and suggestion in the Overall Feedback field.
6. Select Save Draft to save feedback and continue grading submissions, or select Publish to release the feedback to the student.
7. After you assess each student, select the next arrow to access the next student’s work. 
8. When finished grading, select the Back to Submissions page.

Assess student work in an anonymous assignment

If you have created an assignment with the Anonymous Marking option selected, student names display as ‘anonymous user’ on the assignment’s evaluation screen.

Notes regarding the Anonymous Marking feature

• Any existing student submissions are changed from the student’s name to ‘Anonymous User’.This does not change the submission file name or text, the feedback file name or text, or comments made within the Evaluate page.
• The ‘Email Users Without Submissions’ button is removed from the assignment’s page.
• To publish feedback to students, use the Publish All Feedback button. This will publish all draft feedback to all students at the same time. After publishing feedback, the students’ names will no longer be anonymous.

Annotate student file submissions

Within the Assignments tool, instructors can use the annotations toolbar to provide in-line feedback on the student’s work. The annotated file is a separate PDF file from the student’s original file submission.

Annotate a student's assignment file submission

1. Navigate to the Assignments tool.
2. From the assignment’s menu, select View Submissions.
3. Select the student’s name to navigate to the evaluation screen.
4. Select a file submission to review it within the document viewer in the browser.
5. In the annotations toolbar, select the annotations tool you want to use. You can mark-up submissions using highlighting, free hand drawing, shapes, and associated commenting.
6. To save your annotations, select the Save Draft button in the Evaluation and Feedback panel on the right-hand side.
7. To download the annotated file, select Download in the annotations toolbar, then select Download.
   
8. Select Save Draft to save feedback.
9. Once you have saved the assignment feedback, you may exit the screen and return to it at another time to continue annotating the file submission.

Add starter feedback to multiple students at one time

1. Navigate to the Assignments.
2. From the assignment menu, select View Submissions.
3. Do one of the following: 
   • Select individual students and select Add Feedback. 
   • Select More Actions > Add Feedback to All to add feedback to all students. 
     
4. In the Add Feedback window, enter the same feedback that you want these students to receive.
   • Note: This feedback Insert Stuff does not support uploads from My Computer
   • Note: This feedback Insert Image stores file uploads from My Computer in the course Manage Files area
     
5. When ready, select Save. 
6. If applicable, decide whether to clear existing feedback.
   • Select Cancel to keep your existing feedback and cancel adding this new feedback. 
   • Select Clear to add your new feedback to the assessments and clear any previous feedback. The previous feedback is overwritten!
7. The feedback is stored in the Overall Feedback field when assessing the student's work. Assess this by clicking on the student’s name to navigate to the evaluation screen.
   

Restore a deleted submission

1. Navigate to the Assignments tool.
2. From the menu for an assignment, select Submissions Log.
3. Filter the log by selecting Deleted.
4. Select Restore next to the deleted submission you want to restore.
5. A “Submission restored successfully” message will display and a Restored event will be logged on the Submission Log page.
6. Navigate back to the Assignments tool.
7. From the menu for the assignment, select View Submissions. 
8. The restored submission is now available to review.