How do I use the Digital Dropbox and/or the Assignments feature?
The Digital Dropbox, a Blackboard feature that allows students to upload files for the instructor to grade, is slated for removal in a future release of Blackboard. What’s more, there’s a much better way to do things. Consequently, I’m encouraging everyone to move away from using the digital dropbox. The dropbox is being replaced by the assignments feature. The major improvement is that the documents submitted via the assignments feature are categorized by assignment, whereas the dropbox is just one big wild and woolly repository for everything that gets handed in ever. That means that it’s easier to find new submissions, and easier to correlate documents with their assignments. Furthermore, each assignment you create is automatically entered into the gradebook and, since each document is associated with an assignment, entering grades into the Blackboard gradebook is made even easier. To create a new assignment, go to the Control Panel, and then to the content area you want to add the
