Blackboard for Faculty

Returning Submitted Papers to Students

This section of the Blackboard Grade Center tutorial will go over how to return graded papers to students that had been submitted via a Blackboard Assignment.

  • From the Blackboard control panel, click on Grade Center. The Grade Center menu will expand, and from this menu, click Full Grade Center.
  • Find the column for the assignment you will be retrieving the paper from. You may need to use the scroll feature at the bottom of the Grade Center menu.
  • Click the chevron icon (button with two downward-facing arrows) next to the  assignment's heading at the top of the column. From the drop-down menu that appears, click Grade Attempts.

  • From the page you are redirected to, you will be able to give student feedback by:
    • Going to step 3. Grade Current Attempt.
    • Giving them the appropriate grade in the Grade field.
    • Writing any comments in the text box.
    • Clicking Browse Computer and attaching their paper with your comments.
    • "Grading Notes" are just for you--students cannot see them. So, you can probably ignore this step.
  • When you have finished filling out the appropriate fields, click Submit to send the responses to the student.