My instructor wants me to submit an assignment using the Digital Drop Box in Blackboard. How does that work?
(10/22/2002) There are a couple of similar tools in Blackboard, the Digital Drop Box and the Group File Exchange. The Digital Drop Box is what the instructor usually will have you use to submit work. The Group File Exchange is more frequently used when a small group has to share files among themselves. In the following discussion we are referring to the Digital Drop Box that is accessed from the Student Tools menu. The Digital Drop Box can be used in a couple of ways. Add File: Typically you will not use this function. You can use the Digital Drop Box as a remote hard drive. If you are working on an assignment at different locations and don’t want to carry the file around on a diskette, you can store it in the Digital Drop Box and have access to it any location that has Internet access. Just click on the Add File button and browse for the file you want to store there. When you use the Add File button, only you have access to the file. The instructor does not. One indicator that a file
