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Handing in assignments

Written assignments are mostly handed in online via your Canvas course site. How you hand in an assignment will depend on the assessment tool being used in your course.

How to submit a written assignment using the Canvas enhanced assignment tool

Most courses use the in-built Canvas assignment tool for written assignments.

• Navigate to your assignment via the Assessment Overview button on the course home page or via the weekly Modules in the Course Navigation
• Click the title of the assignment
• Select a submission type, e.g.  Upload to upload a file from your computer (either via selecting the Choose a file to upload or dragging and dropping the file from your computer).
• Once uploaded, your file will be saved as an assignment submission draft.
• When you are ready to submit your assignment, click the Submit Assignment button

For further instructions, see How do I submit an online assignment? (Canvas Guides) .

Submitting your draft assessment

A submission point shows a number of allowed attempts to show how many submissions you can make. A submission with Allowed Attempts set to 1 only allows for a final submission. If the Allowed Attempts is set to 2 or more , the submission point allows for draft submissions.

Draft assessment items are submitted through the same submission point as the final submission using the same submission process.

How to submit a written assignment using Turnitin

Another commonly used assignment tool is Turnitin. The Assignment Dashboard (Turnitin Help) allows you to submit your assessment, view the Similarity Report (Turnitin Help) and access feedback after it has been marked. Further resources can be found at  Uploading a submission (Turnitin Help).

Changes to cover sheets in Canvas

From T3 2022, you will no longer need to include a cover sheet when you submit assessment through Learning@Griffith. The Academic Integrity Statement that was previously part of the cover sheet is now part of the Course Profile, outlined in section 3.3. This means that when you enrol in a course, you agree to comply with the University's Academic Integrity requirements.

At Griffith, we strive to support your development of professional and ethical decision-making capabilities, so you can get the most out of your learning experience at university and be successful in your future career. To help you succeed in your studies, there are a range of support resources and services available to you.

Find out more about these resources below and remember to reach out for the support you need at any time during the trimester.

• Assessment Overview page in your course site – stay across the key dates and assessment requirements for your course. The bottom of this page also contains quick links to everything you need to know about assessment at Griffith. Learn more about navigating your course site .
• Student Support – access all the learning, health, wellbeing and personal support available to assist you with your studies through the link in your course site navigation.

Information on applying for special consideration, deferred assessments and extensions can be found with our Frequently asked questions .

For information on submitting other sorts of assessments, see:

• ProctorU exams
• Group assessments
• Video assignments

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Can i get an extension to submit my assignment (assessment) after the due date.

No, you need to:

• complete an application for an assignment extension by the due time on the due date for the assessment item (emailed requests will not be considered)
• if required, submit appropriate documentation to support your application.

Once approved, you may need to download and attach your Assessment Extension Approved Items coversheet to your assignment. This coversheet can be generated via your Assessment Application Status page.

Important: There are penalties if you have not received approval for an extension .

See also: How do I apply for an extension on an assessment (e.g.: assignment)? How do I apply for an extension on an assessment (e.g. assignment )?

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To create a Blackboard assignment:

• Navigate to the content folder you want the submission point to appear in
• Hover over the Assignments tab toward the top of the area, then click Assignment

This will open the Create Assignment page where you can configure the settings as desired.

Configuring assignments

Blackboard assignments can be configured on the Create Assignment or Edit Assignment page. The Create Assignment page is accessed immediately after you create an assignment, while the Edit Assignment page can be accessed at any time after an assignment is created by clicking the chevron to the right of the assignment title, then clicking Edit .

The following sections walk through the settings on the Edit Assignment page and provide important notes and explanations of each, with important settings highlighted in bold text.

Draft assignments

Draft assignments are optional and provide students the opportunity to check the originality score of a paper prior to submitting the final version for marking. The following settings are recommended for Draft assignments, with  bold text referencing the most important settings to review.

• This text will appear to students as the assignment link in the content area
• It may be helpful to include the word 'DRAFT' somewhere in the title
• Text written here will appear to students below the assignment link and any attached files
• It may be helpful to advise students that papers submitted here will not be marked

In this section, you can optionally attach any files related to the assignment, such as assignment instructions, a marking criteria sheet, or exemplar assignments. However, it may be more beneficial to attach these files to a  Final assignment .

When enabled, a Due Date will cause any submissions made after the listed time to be marked as late on the Mark Attempt page. This is not usually required for Draft assignments but may be beneficial for Final assignments .

• Enter zero in the Points Possible box
• Rubrics may not be necessary for Draft assignments, but may be beneficial for  Final assignments .

Submission Details

• Expand the Submission Details section
• Select  Individual Submission for the Assignment Type setting
• This allows students to make as many draft submissions as they like without the teaching team needing to intervene to allow further submissions
• This will generate originality reports for student submissions, provided the uploaded files are under 10MB in size and adhere to the rest of  SafeAssign’s requirements .
• This ensures students have access to view the originality reports generated for their draft submissions
• This ensures draft submissions are not uploaded to the repository that future submissions are checked against for text-matching, which will prevent student submissions to Final assignments matching with their own Draft submissions

Marking Options

• Expand the Marking Options section
• Ensure Enable Anonymous Marking is unticked
• Ensure Enable Delegated Marking is unticked

Display of Marks

• Expand the Display of Marks section
• Set the  Primary drop-down to Score for the  Display mark as  setting
• Untick the  Include in Mark Centre marking calculations box
• This provides students an additional way to access their Draft submissions

• If this is not ticked, students will not be able to see the assignment link under any circumstances . Display After and Display Until dates, as well as Adaptive Release rules, can only take effect if this box is ticked.
• If the boxes are ticked, the assignment link will only be visible to students during the specified window of time (provided the Make the Assignment Available box is ticked)
• It is also possible to tick only one of these boxes. For example, if I want to hide the assignment link until June 12 at 9am but do not want the link to disappear after that, I can simply tick the Display After box and specify June 12 at 9am, then leave the Display Until box unticked
• Time is in 24-hour format

Finishing up

• Click the red Submit button to save your changes

Final assignments

Final assignments provide students a place to submit the final version of their assignment for marking. The following settings are recommended for Final assignments, with  bold text referencing the most important settings to review.

• It may be helpful to include the word 'FINAL' somewhere in the title if you have also provided a Draft assignment

In this section, you can optionally attach any files related to the assignment, such as assignment instructions, a marking criteria sheet, exemplar assignments, etc. Files attached here will appear to students as links below the assignment link but above the assignment instructions

• Browse Local Files allows you to select a file from your computer
• Browse Content Collection allows you to select a file from your course’s Content Collection
• Browse Cloud Service does not work correctly at this time and can be ignored
• Amend the Link Title in the box provided if you want the file link text to appear differently than what is displayed under the File Name section

Enabling a Due Date will cause any submissions made after the listed time to be marked as late on the Mark Attempt page. Enabling a Due Date does not prevent students from making submissions after the listed time. Instead, the ability for a student to resubmit is controlled by the Number of Attempts setting further down the page). To enable a Due Date:

• Tick the box
• Click the calendar icon to select the desired date
• Please note these options are in 24-hour format
• You can also manually enter a time in the box in the format hh:mm

• This value should be the same as the Marked out of value for the assignment in the Course Profile. This is required to ensure assessment mapping is successful during the Grade Management process.
• For information on how Rubrics can be utilised throughout the assignment process, visit Blackboard’s Rubrics support page.

• The Individual Submission setting is appropriate for individual assessment items
• The Group Submission setting is appropriate for group assessment items. If this option is selected, we recommend reviewing Blackboard’s Create Group Assignments support page to understand the process.
• Single Attempt means students will only be able to submit one attempt. A member of the teaching team would need to ignore the original submission for any further submissions to be possible.
• Multiple Submissions allows you to specify the maximum number of submissions allowed per student or group in the box provided. Once a student or group has reached the maximum number of submissions, a member of the teaching team would need to ignore one of the existing submissions for further submissions to be possible.
• Unlimited Attempts allows students to make as many submissions as they like.
• This will generate originality reports for student submissions, provided the uploaded files are under 10MB in size and adhere to the rest of SafeAssign’s requirements .
• If originality reports are not needed, or submitted files will not adhere to SafeAssign’s requirements (e.g. video-only submissions), this box can be left unticked
• This box is optional to tick for Final submission points. When ticked, students will be able to view originality reports for their Final submissions. When unticked, students will not be able to view originality reports. It is common to leave the box unticked if a Draft assignment has been made available to students, and to tick the box if a Draft assignment was not made available.
• This ensures student submissions are uploaded to the repository that future submissions are checked against for text-matching

• Enabling Delegated Marking is not recommended as it adds unnecessary complexity to the marking process, thereby increasing the time required to complete marking and moderation. Due to a bug, it also causes problems with assessment mapping during the Grade Management process.
• If marking has not started, it is fine to untick the box if it was ticked originally. However, if marking has already started, we do not recommend unticking this box as it can cause loss of marks and feedback. Contact the IT Service Centre for further information and assistance in this situation.
• This ensures marks for the assignment are included in Total columns in Mark Centre (provided the Total columns are configured correctly)
• This ensures marks and feedback remain hidden from students while marking and moderation are in progress

• If the boxes are ticked, the assignment link will only be visible to students during the specified window of time (provided the Make the Assignment Available box is ticked above)
• It is also possible to tick only one of these boxes. For example, if you want to display the assignment link until June 12 at 9am but then want the link to disappear after that, I can simply tick the Display Until box and specify June 12 at 9am as the time and date, then leave the Display After box unticked
• Untick the Track Number of Views box

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• You can log a Service Request with us online, using the IT support form
• Or, you can phone or email us via the IT Service Centre

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Can i request a re-mark of my assessment item.

No, the Assessment Policy  and the Assessment Procedure for Staff do not include a provision for re-marking individual assessment items for a number of reasons including:

• An assessment item should be criteria based, as per the Assessment Policy , which emphasises the professional and expert judgement of academic staff in assessing the quality of student work against such criteria.
• Assessment plans for the University’s courses are to provide opportunities for both formative and summative assessment (Section 3.2  Assessment Procedure for Staff ). Formative assessment items provide students with an opportunity to evaluate the progress of their learning. In a continuous assessment regime the prior tasks are formative to the final summative task.
• Consensus moderation processes (Section 3.1  Assessment Procedure for Staff ) are used to develop common understandings of the course standards that underpin comparability and ensure consistency of marking before, during and after the conduct of assessment.
• Not all assessment items (oral presentation, assessment in practical/professional settings) can be remarked and therefore remarking constitutes an advantage to students undertaking specific types of assessment tasks and courses.
• Re-marking involves requests from individual students and constitutes an advantage that would not necessarily be received by the majority of students.
• Student expectations that comparable marks will be issued through remarks and by different assessors within an acceptable tolerance range without consensus moderation has not been found in the scholarly literature on student assessment.

The Course Convenor documents the moderation process every time a course is offered for approval by the School Assessment Board. In addition a sample of courses is selected each trimester by each School Assessment Board for an in-depth review of their consensus moderation processes and outcomes.

The University adopted this approach to assessment because consensus moderation affirms marking to be a professional and disciplinary judgement made by academic staff members within the social context of their disciplinary and professional peers.

For the above reasons the mark for an assessment item is not considered to be a reviewable decision.

See also: ' Can I appeal my final grade? ' 

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Application for assignment extension, deferred examination or special consideration

If you have special circumstances that are impacting on your ability to complete your assessment, you may be eligible to apply for a concession.

Assignment extension

Apply for an assignment extension if special circumstances prevent you from completing your assignment by the due date.

Apply for an assignment extension

Deferred examination

Apply for a deferred examination if you're unable to sit an examination due to medical or other special circumstances. This is available for the end-of-semester examination period or an examination organised by your unit coordinator during the semester (in-semester).

Apply for a deferred examination

Special consideration

Apply for special consideration if you believe your performance in an examination or assignment was adversely affected by medical, compassionate or other special circumstances.

Apply for special consideration

Lodging your application

Start by selecting the link above relevant to your circumstances. You'll be asked to log in to HiQ.

Lodge your application as early as possible.

It may take up to five working days to receive a response to assignment extension or deferred exam applications. You should continue working on your assessment while your application is being processed.

Supporting documentation

All other applications will be processed as normal and will need supporting evidence.

You must provide relevant supporting documentation by scanning or photographing documents and uploading them to your online application form.

Applications won't be processed until your documentation is received.

The original supporting documentation must be available to be produced on request. Medical certificates must make it clear that your doctor thought you were unable to study.

Multiple assessment items

A separate application is required for each assessment item.

Further advice

Check our assignment extension , deferred exam and special consideration advice for full details on applying, including when to apply and requirements for supporting documentation.