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Dropbox for Students

About Dropbox

Your instructor may request that you submit your assignment via the Dropbox tool. 

 

Submitting Assignments to a Dropbox Folder

Click Dropbox from the course navigation bar.

Dropbox from course nav bar

  1. From the main Dropbox page, select the title of the assignment to which you want to submit a file/document.
  2. Click Add a File .
  3. Click Browse to attach the file you want to upload. You can click Add to attach additional files.
  4. Click Upload .
  5. Click Submit .

submit assignments

Dropbox Supported File Types

  • MS Word   (.doc)
  • WordPerfect  (.wp, .wp1, .wp2, .wp3, .wp4)
  • PostScript (.ps)
  • Acrobat PDF (.pdf)
  • HTML  (.htm or .html)
  • RTF (.rtf)
  • Plain text (.txt)

Unsupported File Types

  • .odt
  • .wps
  • scanned images saved as PDF
  • .ppt or .pptx

Reviewing your Dropbox Submission History

  1. On the Dropbox folders page, click History .
  2. Select the Folder you want to view the submissions history.

A list of submitted files displays on the Submission History page. You can check each file’s size, when it was submitted, whether comments were included with it, and who has retrieved it. For group dropbox folders you can check who submitted each file.

  • Unread - The file has not been retrieved. 
  • Read - The file has been retrieved. (It may not have been read or graded.)

 

Submitting Group Assignments to a Dropbox Folder

Group dropbox folders have a Group Folder icon beside their name. Any user in your group can submit files to the group folder. The Submissions column in the Folder List lets you know how many files your group submitted. The Submission History page provides details on who submitted files and when. Feedback, including grades, associated with group folders applies to the entire group.

  1. From the main Dropbox page, select the folder you want to submit an assignment to.
  2. Click Add a File .
  3. Click Browse to attach the file you want to upload. You can click Add to attach additional files.
  4. Click Upload .
  5. Click Submit .

 

Viewing Instructor Feedback

- on the Course Homepage

  1. When you login and enter your course, the Updates box will indicate that your submission has been graded.

Dropbox unread feedback

- in the Dropbox

  1. From the Dropbox Folders page, click the View icon in the Feedback column for a folder.

Turnitin dropbox view

  1. View your comments, grades, and/or rubric achievement.
  2. Click Download All Files to download any attachments.
  3. To view your Turnitin Originality reports and Grademark comments (if your instructor used this tool), click the colored block under report. This will open your Originality report at Turnitin's website in a new window. Click on Grademark in the upper left corner to view comments left by your instructor.
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    Grademark button
  4. If you do not see the Markup icon, your instructor may not have used Grademark or completed their comments only recently. Check back later. Or, if you see turnitin report color block under Report, click the colored section to see your Originality report.

Note: If you try to resubmit your paper within 24 hours of your first submission, there will be a 24 hour delay before you can see the Originality report for your second submission.

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