How to Submit a Blackboard Assignment (For Students)
It is possible to submit an assignment electronically through Blackboard. You may find that your course instructor has set up a Blackboard assignment, which they expect you to complete. The instructions below explain how to submit an assignment through Blackboard.
Note that if you are uploading an assignment from home your internet connection may not be fast enough to upload a particularly large file (over 10MB) before the upload process times out. Therefore we recommend that if you wish to submit a file of over 10MB in size that you do so from a public workstation on campus.
Locate the Assignment
1. Locate the assignment within your Blackboard course. The screenshot above uses an example assignment.
2. To view further details or submit an assignment click on View / Complete Assignment.
View / Complete Assignment
3. The Upload Assignment page will appear. This is broken down into different sections.
4. The first section includes full details of the assignment and any files related to it. To view attached files click on the link. To download a file from Blackboard read the guide under "What's Related" on the right of this web page.
Upload Assignment
5. The next two sections cover the actual submission of the assignment. When you are ready to submit the assignment read the instructions below.
6. Section 2 - Assignment Materials provides the opportunity to save or submit an assignment as well as add any comments regarding the submission.
7. Enter any comments about the assignment you are submitting into the Comments text box.
8. Attach the completed assignment by clicking on the Browse button. Locate your assignment and click on Open. Please make sure that you do not have any spaces or special characters (e.g. !"£$%^&*()#'@[]{};:'\|/,<>) in the filename.
9. If you wish to add further files, click on Add Another File and repeat the above step.
Submit or Save?
10. To Submit your assignment click on Submit.
Make sure to click on Submit once only, and then wait until the transfer finishes. Do not double click on Submit, do not click the back button during the transfer, do not click on submit again even if you think it is taking to long. Failure to follow this guidance will lead to your assignment being corrupted.
Bear in mind that if you are submitting an assignment from home that the speed at which you can upload a file is much slower than on campus.
Important note about the Save button
The Save option will save the assignment but WILL NOT submit the assignment to the course instructor – instead it allows a copy of the work to be saved in Blackboard, which may then be downloaded and worked on at another time or location. If you wish to submit the assignment make sure to click on Submit.
Valid File Error
11. You may receive an error message stating "Please enter a valid file". This does not relate to the type of file you are attempting to submit, rather it is an incompatibility with the web browser you are using. Please refer to http://www.southampton.ac.uk/isolutions/computing/elearn/blackboard/student/studentFAQ.html#valid for guidance on how to resolve this.
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