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Student file attachments

As you create or edit composition, collaboration, peer-review, and portfolio assignments, selecting the Allow Attachments for Submissions option allows your students to attach files to their submission. The following sections provide an overview of the workflow from the student attaching the files to you receiving them. (Details on how students attach files are in the student Help.)

Composition assignments

A student opens the assignment and then upload and attach up to three the file(s) in the composing space. The student then submits the assignment and its attachment(s) to you.

When you open the student's submission, you can open and read the attachment(s) or save it to your computer. If you save the attachment, you can enter comments in the saved copy, then attached your commented file to the assignment, enter a score, and submit it to the student. The student will receive your commented file and can open it in the draft history window.

Collaboration assignments

With this type of assignment, students can submit up to three file attachments.

All students can work in the same attached document, one at a time. They can update the existing document attachment or remove it and attach a different document.
Students can use both the composing space and an attached document. For example, they could update the document in turn and enter comments about their changes in the composing space.

As soon as one student in a group/team flags the assignment as complete, it is submitted to you for review and a grade. You can then review the student comments in the composing space and, if applicable, review the attached file. If you save the attached file to your system, you can open and edit it with your comments, then attach it to the student submission. After you grade and submit the assignment back to the collaboration group, all students in that group will receive your commented file and can open it in the draft history window.

Peer-review assignments

You can let students attach up to three files to a peer-review assignment's base assignment. The peer reviewers can open an attached document and save it to their system, but they must enter all their peer-review comments in the composing space.

When you receive a peer reviewer's submission, you have access to any files that were attached to the base assignment in addition to the peer reviewer's comments. You have the option of attaching a new document with your comments to the peer-reviewer's submission. After you grade it, the peer-reviewer can open your attachment in the draft history window.

Portfolio assignments

Students can add assignment submissions with attached files to a portfolio. They can also create a personal document and attach up to three files to it in the composing space and then add the saved document with its attachments to the portfolio. Students can add multiple documents with one to three file attachments to the portfolio.