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This Quick Guide will help you learn How to Upload Assignments in D2L.

On your Course Homepage:

• Click Assessments,
• then click Assignments

In Assignments:

• Click on the Assignment Name
• To submit file as noted

To submit Assignment:

• Click Add A File
• Click Submit

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• Assignments on D2L

Navigating Assignments on D2L

Quick start guide:.

Students use the Assignment tool to upload and submit assignments to assignments in D2L Brightspace to provide their work to their instructor.

•  From the course navigation bar, click Assessment and then click Assignments.
• Underneath the assignment title, there may be date restrictions – open or close dates and times show the availability for that assignment.
• Completion Status – Displays your attempts on an assignment as well as any files you have submitted with that attempt. Click here to view the materials you submitted as a part of that assignment attempt.
• Score – The score you earned on your assignment.
• Evaluation Status – Feedback from your instructor on your assignment attempt.
• Due Date – A due date is the deadline of an assignment in your course. This date is specific to the assignment only. After the due date has past, you may be able to submit an assignment, but it will always be marked as late.

You cannot access an assignment before the open date or after the close date.

For additional assistance, please see the complete user guide:, navigating assignments user guide:, click here to access: navigating assignments on d2l (learners), additional d2l help guides:.

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• Logging Into D2L
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Video Tutorial:

Navigating assignments, submitting assignments on d2l.

• From the course navigation bar, click Assessment and then click From there, select the assignment you want to submit. The Submit Assignment page will show you any instructions or rubrics for your review.
• Type your response in the text box that appears on the screen. Click Submit on the bottom of the page to turn in your response, once you have finished.
• On the Review Assignment Submission page, you will receive confirmation on your assignment submission. You can then click Done . You will also receive email confirmation that you have submitted the assignment.
• Please see the complete user guide for all the details on submitting files in D2L!
• These types of assignments are completed on paper or in person, and require no upload on D2L

Submitting Assignments User Guide:

Click here to access: submitting assignments on d2l (learners), are your instructors having trouble viewing your assignment, and you using a mac.

What is likely happening is that you are submitting Pages documents instead of Word documents to D2L. Instructors cannot typically open .pages files, resulting in that error. Please use the link below for instructions on converting Pages documents to Word documents.

Viewing Assignment Feedback on D2L

Viewing assignment feedback user guide:, click here to access: viewing assignment feedback on d2l (learners).

• From the course navigation bar, click Assessment and then click Assignments.
• Once you have located your desired assignment, click Unread in the Evaluation Status column.
• If your instructor added an annotated feedback file to the assignment, click View Inline Feedback. The annotation feedback file opens in a new tab, displaying annotated feedback on a PDF file that may include highlighting, free hand drawing or shapes, text comments, and pop-up notes. To download the annotated assignment as a PDF, click Download .
• If there are any feedback files, click Download All Files to download feedback attachments.
• When you are finished viewing the annotated feedback, navigate back to the View Feedback page and click Done .

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Uploading Files to the Content Area in D2L

Files uploaded to Content can be viewed and downloaded by users. Instructors can upload files in the following ways:

• Upload a File from a Computer
• Upload a File from Google Drive
• Upload a File from OneDrive

Upload Files from a Computer

D2L allows the upload of common file types such as PDF, DOC, DOCX, PPT, and PPTX. These files are displayed within a document viewer in the Content area. 

A module must be created first before files can be added. See Creating a Module for instructions.

• Go to a module in Content.
• Select the  Upload/Create  [A] button.

• The Add a File pop-up window will open. Select the  Upload button to locate the file or drag the file from the computer desktop and drop it within the dotted box.
• Select the Add button.

Note: It is possible to select more than one file at a time in step 3. This will save time if uploading multiple files at once.

Upload Files from Google Drive

• Go to a module in content.
• Select the  Existing Activities  button.
• Select  Google Drive  from the dropdown menu. Google will require login information to be entered if this is the first time using Google Drive in D2L.

Note: If the file is not publicly viewable, a notification saying "This file is private" will appear. Next to this, a checkbox will say "Change permissions so that anyone with a link can view." If this box is unchecked, students will not be able to view the file .

• Choose  Select.
• The file is now embedded in the module.

Note: If the file is set to "Anyone with the link can view," students will only be able to view the document. If it is set to "Anyone with the link can edit," students will be able to make changes to the document (e.g. a sign-up sheet).

Upload Files from Microsoft OneDrive

Files can be uploaded from Microsoft OneDrive directly into a module. This will create a live link to the Microsoft Web version. Any changes made to the document in Microsoft are pushed instantaneously to the live link in the course. A Microsoft account is required to use OneDrive, so a DePaul email address can be used.

Note: To link to a file in OneDrive, instructors must be the original owner of the file. If the file was downloaded from elsewhere or shared with the instructor, OneDrive will link to the entire folder in which the file is stored (sharing permissions as set on the folder will still apply).

• Go to the module in content.
• Select the  Existing Activities  button, then 
• Select  OneDrive  from the dropdown menu. Microsoft will require login information to be entered in order to allow access from D2L.
• From the Add Activity window, select the file that needs to be inserted.
• The file is now linked in the module.

Note: By default, files are set to "Read Only."

View  Reordering Modules and Topics  for more information on how to reorganize files.

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Modified on: Wed, 28 Jul, 2021 at 11:44 AM

This article demonstrates how to create a D2L Assignment. The D2L Assignment tool allows instructors to collect student assignment submissions electronically, allowing for easy tracking of student submissions. The Assignment tool allows instructors to view and evaluate assignment submissions within the D2L Annotation tool and return scores and feedback to students in an efficient manner. 

Setting up a New Assignment Folder

Navigate to the Assignment tool by clicking "Assessments > Assignments" in the navigation menu.

On the Assignments page, click the “New Assignment”  button.

Assignments default to "ungraded." If this is a graded assignment, click "ungraded"  to enter the score value.

Click on "In Grades" to:

• Choose from Grades -   Create a new grade item or choose an existing grade item to tie to this assignment.
• Remove from Grades -  Allows the assignment to be scored, but the score will not be included in the gradebook.
• Reset to Ungraded -  Changes the assignment back to the default ungraded assignment.

When choosing from grades, you can create a new grade item for the assignment, or associate it to an existing grade item.

Availability Dates & Conditions

• Start Date  and End Date controls when the assignment is available to students.
• Release conditions   control access to the assignment based on other conditions.
• Special access can make the assignment available to individual students outside the normal assignment requirements.

Submission & Completion

• Individual assignment – Each user submits files and the files assessed individually. (Default )
• Group assignment – Any member of the assigned group can submit an assignment to a group folder. Group members are assigned a common grade during evaluation. Groups must be setup first to enable this assignment type.
• File submission -  learners upload and submit a file to the assignment. A file upload is required.
• Text submission -  learners post text, image, or a link to their work in a text box within the assignment. A file upload is not required.
• On paper submission -  learners submit a physical copy of their assignment directly to their instructor. No file upload is required to complete the assignment.
• Observed in person -  allows instructors to observe learners as they perform tasks, such as in-class presentations, and evaluate them using Assignments. No file upload is required to complete the assignment.
• Set the “Submission Options”  to designate the number of submissions allowed and which submissions are retained by the system. Submission options will vary depending on the submission type. 
• Enter a notification email if you wish to be notified each time an assignment is submitted.

Evaluation & Feedback

• You can attach a D2L Rubric by clicking “Add rubric.” For more information on D2L Rubrics, see the Rubrics Setup article .
• KU is not currently using Learning Objectives.
• Enables the Annotation tools for assignment assessment.
• Enable Turnitin Feedback Studio (Originality Check and GradeMark) .

Assignment Categories

You can add Assignments to categories in the bulk edit mode. First check off the assignments you want to add categories for, and then click “bulk edit.”

On the bulk edit page, there will be a “category” drop down for each assignment to apply the appropriate category.

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How to upload assignment files on behalf of student?

How does an instructor upload the assignment on behalf of a student should there be a need? Trying to submit the file under evaluate does not actually add the file - just gives a preview of how the student would do the process. Impersonate as student does also not work.

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Hi Etienne,

Your institution would need to allow the Instructor role to impersonate students and then under classlist, you should see a dropdown with an option for “Impersonate ”

This option creates a live session as the user, so that's just something to keep in mind.

Documentation for this:

Impersonate a User : A user can impersonate another user from the Classlist tool. For example, it would be beneficial to impersonate a user when submitting a quiz on their behalf. The ability to enable user impersonation is set in the Users tool's permissions. Contact your administrator for more details.

• On the navbar, click  Classlist .
• From the context menu of the user you want to impersonate, click  Impersonate .

Hi @Gerald.T.717 ,

Thanks for reaching us through community!!

Did you tried impersonating the student and ran API call - POST /d2l/api/le/ ( version ) / ( orgUnitId ) /dropbox/folders/ ( folderId ) /submissions/mysubmissions/

If you have issues then you might need to raise a support case to check further.

Hi @Sangeetha.T.629 how does one impersonate a student?

I have gone thru the docs and the only way to get a student's user context is by having the student login first. We would like to find a way to impersonate a student w/o having the student having to login?

Thanks for the update.

A user can impersonate another user from the Classlist tool. The ability to enable user impersonation is set in the Users tool's permissions. Contact your administrator for more details.

Is there a programmatic way to achieve this impersonation?

There’s no real way to simulate impersonation via an API call

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