Subject: Coursework, File Exchange Assignment Error

1/26/2010

Alexander Kirby

Information Literacy and eLearning Librarian at Pennsylvania Highlands Community College

AKirby@pennhighlands.edu

Question to ListServ:

Some of the faculty at my college are running into a problem with File Exchange Assignments. Some students are being locked out of their assignments. What occurs is that the system locks the assignment as done but no file has been submitted. Now the student is locked out from submitting a file and the instructor can’t let them resubmit. Normally, if a file has been submitted the instructor has the option to re-open the assignment and let the student submit another file but if there is no file from the student the option to reopen the assignment is not available.

The only thing I can think of is that if a File Exchange assignment slips past its due date the system won’t allow new assignment to be submitted, even if the due date is changed to a later time. I have told instructors to let students email the assignment but that isn’t an ideal solution. Has anyone else run into this?

Responses from ListServ:

from Peggy Johnson

Turtle Mountain Community College

peggy.johnson@tm.edu

• The instructor should be able to reopen the assignment for the student if he or she first removes the zero from the grade. We have had this problem, too. If the assignment has been automatically graded because the due date has passed, it can't be reopened unless the grade is removed.

from Bormann, Amanda G

Application Support Specialist & Trainer
Southeast Technical Institute
Amanda.Bormann@southeasttech.edu

• What we’ve found at STI is that after all due dates have passed (including the “Allow Late Submissions Through” date), any assignments without a file uploaded are automatically graded by the system and are assigned a 0.
  
  To re-open these types of assignments, you will need to choose Re-enter grade/feedback at the bottom of the screen and backspace out the 0 grade and choose Save. This will then make the system think that the grade was never entered and allow you to re-open the assignment for the student.

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