How does the digital drop box work?
The digital drop box is basically a special e-mail folder that your instructor enabled in Blackboard to receive course related materials (assignments, papers, etc.) from students in a particular course. You’ll usually find the digital drop box in the student tools area in your course. Create a file with whatever word processor your have on your computer (for example, Microsoft Word). Make sure you include your name somewhere on the document. Save the file in Rich Text Format (see related question) to your hard drive or disk. • Go into your Blackboard course and locate the Digital Drop Box • Click on “Send Item” • Give it a title that will help the instructor identify the file, for example “Assignment 1 Shattuck” • Click on File, then browse your hard drive or disk to locate the file • Click “open” on the appropriate file to have it placed into your Blackboard course (you’ll now see it listed) • Add any comments that you would like to include to your instructor • Click on submit (You sh
