Blackboard

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Blackboard
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Web sites

• All substantive information about this course is
  on the course website,http//www.cis.upenn.edu/m
  atuszek/cit591-2008/index.html
• Blackboard is athttps//courseweb.library.upenn.e
  du/
• We use Blackboard for
• Turning in assignments
• Showing you your grade on assignments
• Information about how the grading was done
• The announcements page, which will tell what
  points were taken off for what things, is not
  specific to you

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Turning in assignments

• When you turn in an assignment via Blackboard,
  Blackboard wants it to be one single file
• The first assignment is a single file, so nothing
  special needs to be done
• Most assignments will consist of multiple files,
  so you need to put them into a single zip file,
  and turn that in
• Put all your files in a directory named
  LastName_FirstInitial_ProjectName
• Example Smith_J_Portrait
• Use Portrait as the name of the first assignment
• Zip up the directory
• Submit via Blackboard
• I will give you the ProjectName to use for each
  assignment
• If your first name is hyphenated, e.g. Jean-Luc
  Picard, use the form Picard_JL_Portrait
• Only Blackboard submissions will be graded

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Using Blackboard

• You can only turn in one file at a time, so in
  general we want your zipped directory
• In Blackboard,
• Click on Tools ? Digital Drop Box ? Send File
• Use the Browse... button or the drop down menu to
  select your zip file
• Click Submit
• Click Send File
• Fill in the title field with the assignment
  number and name, e.g. 1-Self Portrait
• For pair programming, put your partners name
  (and anything else you wish to say) in the
  comments field
• One thing you might want to say is NEW VERSION
• We will grade only the latest version available
• Click Submit
• Click OK a few more times, and you should get the
  messageTitle has been sent to the instructor(s)
• These instructions (in more detail) are
  athttp//www.cis.upenn.edu/matuszek/General/blac
  kboard-and-zip.html

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