Document Viewer in Dropbox

In the D2L Dropbox "Leave Feedback" area, instructors can view student submissions online in D2L (rather than downloading), and can provide feedback in the same screen, if students submit any of the following file types:

• .doc
• .docx
• .ppt
• .pptx
• .txt
• .pdf
• .gif
• .jpg,
• .png.

1. From your D2L Course Home page, click on [Dropbox] in the main navigation bar

2. Click on the appropriate dropbox folder.

3. Click on [Leave Feedback] beside the name of the appropriate student.


4. Click on the student's submitted file to view it in D2L. (NOTE: You can still download the student-submitted files by clicking [Download All Files].  The download will be a .zip file format.)

5. You have several options for leaving feedback on the "Evaluation" screen.

(from top-to-bottom):




5a. You can select or create a rubric by clicking on [Associate Rubric] or [Create Rubric]




5b. If the dropbox is linked to the D2L gradebook, you can enter the points the student earned for this assignment.




5c. You can type or paste in the [General Feedback] text box. 




5d. You can upload a file to leave as feedback. To include an attachment (e.g., a Word document containing your comments), click on [add a file]. 




5e. You can record an audio file to leave as feedback. To record audio, click on [Record Audio]. (NOTE: including a text transcript of your audio recording will make your feedback accessible to all audiences.)

6. Click on [Save] to submit your feedback.




7. You may leave feedback for the next student by clicking [Next Student] near the top of the right column, or you may return to the list of student submissions by clicking on [Back to Folder Submissions] on the top right column.

D2L 9.4.1 SP3 – January 2012

Submitting a file to Dropbox

• There are multiple steps to the process of submitting a file to a D2L dropbox.  If all the steps are not completed, the file will not be submitted successfully. Here is the sequence of steps:

·       Click [Add a File]

·       In the popup window, click [Browse]

·       Navigate to the desired file and double-click

·       Click [Upload]

·       Click [Submit] 

(Students will receive a confirmation email when file has uploaded)

• Students should use a file format (e.g., Word) that you have specifically prescribed, so that you will be able to read their submissions when you download them.

• Both instructors and students should use file names that contain only the normal letters of the English alphabet, in addition to spaces, dashes, or underscores.  Including even a single odd character – e.g., ampersand, apostrophe, pound sign, exclamation mark – in the filename can make it impossible to download. Finally, there must be only ONE period (.) in the filename – located between the descriptive text and the file type (e.g., file1.doc).

Assigning & Adjusting Group Dropbox Grades

If you set up a dropbox folder when you created the group and have that dropbox item tied into a gradebook item, the grade that you give will be automatically applied to each member in the gradebook.

If you need to adjust an individual member's grade, you can do so in the gradebook. Just click on [Grade Item] for the grade item that you wish to change and then adjust the grade (pictured below) as if you were changing or adding any other grade manually.

D2L 9.4.1 – January 2012

Sort Dropbox submissions

Click Dropbox
Click the Name of the folder you want to view submissions for
Click the Files tab to view and search submissions by file name
Click the Files to Submit header to sort files alphabetically
or
Click the Submission Date header to sort files by date
or
Click the First Name, Last Name header to sort files by user