Assignment: A content type in a Blackboard course which students use to submit their work online. Submitting an Assignment automatically creates an entry for the project in the course gradebook.
After a student submits an Assignment, the instructor retrieves it from the Gradebook, provides feedback, and assigns a score.
If you do not submit your project in BB using the Assignment tool, you will have a score of zero (0) for the project in the gradebook, you will not receive feedback from your grader, and it will cause delays in the grading.
To Submit Your Project in Blackboard
The following procedure demonstrates how to submit a Project for grading. The same general steps apply to each subsequent project.
On or before the project due-date, use SSH (XP) or Fugu (OS X) to upload all .html files and image files used on your web pages to /110/ on the remote host, shell.uoregon.edu.
After uploading, be sure to test your .html files on the server. View all .html files on the server in a browser to make sure everything works correctly-- the .html files you upload to the server are the ones that will be graded.
Don't change the time-stamp after the due-date. When your files are uploaded, they are time-stamped. After the due-date, do not upload them again or change them in any way, as this will change the time-stamp and make your project Late. See Policy on Due-Dates.
Login to Blackboard and submit your project. Each project this term will have a Submit Project link in the Projects folder. This link is connected to a Blackboard Assignment item, which contains a Comments section and a Attach Local File.. option.
You do not have to use the "
Since all your .html files are on shell.uoregon.edu, you do not have to upload them in Blackboard.
Hit the Submit button. If you hit Cancel or Save, your project will not be submitted and will not be graded, resulting in a score of zero (0).
Project Grading Procedures. After you submit your project, your lab instructor retrieves it from the Gradebook, provides feedback, and assigns a score. This will be done within one week of the project due-date.
A (!) in the gradebook means your project has been submitted but needs to be graded. A (-) in the gradebook means your project has not been submitted. (-) are replaced by scores of zero (0) after the project due-date. A score in the gradebook means your project has been graded. Click on the score, then hit the View button to read the Feedback to User. This is your Project Grade Report (PGR) where all deductions, etc., will be explained in full.
If your project has not been graded within one week of the due-date, please notify your instructor by email.
Student Responsibilities for the Gradebook.
Submit all projects on time. You can not pass the course without completing the projects.
Monitor your scores in the Gradebook. Remember that (-) are replaced by zeros (0) automatically. Notify your instructor of problems in real-time.
Delaying until late in the term to correct Gradebook errors will negatively impact your final grade for the course. If your instructor does not hear from you until Final's week, it is too late to help you. See How to Handle Academic Difficulties.
What is a Project URL?
Your project URL is the web address of your /110/ folder on shell.uoregon.edu. Your HTACCESS username/password must be added to the project URL.
EXAMPLE
Suppose Susan Q's httaccess-userID and httaccess-password are 110 and 624, respectively. Then her project URL is: http://110:624@www.uoregon.edu/~susanQ/110/
This is what Susan Q would enter in the Comments section when submitting her project in Blackboard:
Name: Susan Queue.
Project URL: http://110:624@www.uoregon.edu/~susanQ/110 Programming Partner: None.
The htaccess-userID for everyone in our class is 110 and the htaccess-password is digits 3-4-5 of your UO id (the first three digits following 950 or 951).
If you worked with a partner, be sure to state that person's name in the Comments section. You must both submit the project separately to receive a grade in the Blackboard gradebook.
For Project 1 only, no HTACCESS information need be submitted and the simple project URL shown here works just fine: http://www.uoregon.edu/~susanQ/110/.
And this is what Susan Q would enter into the BB Assignment dialog in the Comments section:
Name: Susan Q
Project URL: http://www.uoregon.edu/~susanQ/110/ Programming Partner: None.
Never use spaces or special characters (!, @, #, $, %, &, etc.) in file and folder names. Windows operating systems allow spaces and even seem to encourage you to use them, but UNIX operating systems (which run most servers) have problems with them.
Consider how different operating systems handle this URL:
http://www.MarsupialWorld.com/kangaroos/movies with kangaroos.html
A Windows system displays the file named "movies with kangaroos.html" with no trouble. You won't have any problem when you test your page on your own Windows or Macintosh operating system, but problems may arise when you place the page on a Web server running UNIX or Linux (the most common OS for web servers).
The Web server interprets the space as a "%20" character and looks for a file named:
Will your visitors see the kangaroo movies page - or get the "page cannot be found" error message?
Spaces in file names just aren't worth the risk because they greatly increase the chance of errors:
Site visitors get broken links with error messages instead of your content.
You may inadvertently create broken links yourself when you try to change or correct your file names. Each time you change a file name you have to update the link on every page that links to the file you changed.
Be safe and avoid errors by never using spaces in your file names!