Table of Contents 

1. Downloading and grading Assignments 
2. Upload a grade per student 
3. Bulk upload 

1. Downloading and grading Assignments 

You can grade student assignments offline by downloading them. After you assess the assignments offline, you will need to update the changes again in Brightspace. Then you can assign a score and publish the assessment and feedback for your students. 

• Navigate to Tools in the navigation bar of your course. 

• Click on Assignments. 

• Click on the assignment whose submitted work you want to grade. 

• Filter the assignments by student (User) or group (Groups). This makes it easy to download all assignments from students in a particular group (this is useful if there are several teachers in the course who assess assignments; you can now assess one or more groups per teacher). Click Apply. If you selected Groups, you select the group whose assignments you want to see. 

• Click Show Search Options for more filtering options.
  
  

• Select Users with submissions from the drop-down menu if you want to only see the students who have submitted their assignments. 

• Select the submissions you want to review offline. Select all assignments at once by clicking the box in the top left corner. 

• Click Download. A new window should appear.  

• Click on the document name to download a zip file to the computer. The download will appear at the bottom of the window. 

• Click Close. 

• Once you open the zip file, you will see a separate folder for each student. You can now open and grade the submissions in your preferred programme. 

• Save the feedback in this folder (do not change the file name of the location when doing so). 

2.Upload a grade per student 

You can upload each student’s files to Brightspace separately or all at once. If files are uploaded simultaneously, the graded submissions will appear as attachments to the already submitted assignments in Brightspace. 

• Navigate to Tools in the course navigation bar. 

• Click on Assignments 

• Click on the assignment whose assessment you want to submit. 

• Click on the submission whose offline feedback file you want to add. 

• Add the grade for the student (Overall Grade). 

• Click the file icon to upload and add the offline feedback.
  

• Click on My Computer 

• Click Upload and locate the file you want to upload on your computer. 

• Click Add, then the feedback is added. 
  
  

• Click Publish to release the feedback to the student. 

• Click Save Draft if you do not want student to see feedback yet.  

3.Bulk upload 

You can also upload all grades at the same time. The grades will then be displayed as an attachment to the relevant assignment. 

• Navigate the Tools in the course navbar. 

• Click on Assignments. 

• Click the assignment whose content has been assessed. 

• Click on Add Feedback Files
  
  

• Click Upload and look for the zip file containing the assessed assignment. Note that this is the same zip folder of assignments you downloaded at the beginning. 

• Click Overwrite Duplicate Files if you want to replace the identical files.  

• Click Add. At the bottom of the screen, you will see the notification when the files have been added. This may take a while, depending on the quantity and size of the files.   

• Click on an assignment to view the attachment and publish it if necessary, so that it’s visible to the student as well.