<p> How to Use Digital Dropbox</p><p>Overview</p><p>This demo will show you how to submit things to your instructor through the digital dropbox.</p><p>Step by Step</p><p>1. First you need to log in to Blackboard and access your course.</p><p>2. To do this, you need to go to the “tool” button in Blackboard.</p><p> a. Click on “tools”. You will see there are a number of things available.</p><p> b. Click on ”digital toolbox”.</p><p> c. Then there are two options – add a file and send a file.</p><p>3. If you added a file, it will say “posted on the date and time, but this assignment has not been sent to the instructor. You have simply added the file to the digital dropbox.</p><p>4. The second one called “assignment” has been submitted to the instructor, because it shows submitted with a date and time.</p><p>5. So I going to send you a file to show you how to send a file to your instructor because that is what you will be doing most often. I will also show you how to add a file.</p><p>6. To send a file to your instructor, you click on ”send file”.</p><p> a. You can either choose a file that is already in your digial dropbox. So I could choose one of the two assignments in this demo or I can upload one from my desktop. </p><p> b. I am going to call this Assignment 3 and enter it into the “name” box.</p><p> i. Next I will use the browser box to find my assignment, select Word document, and open it.</p><p> ii. Then in the “comment box” I will write a note to my instructor saying here is my assignment”. Then click submit. iii. Blackboard will give you a message saying “Assignment 3 has been sent to the selected user with role of instructor” and the date it was submitted. Click okay. Then it tells me that this assignment was submitted.</p><p> c. Perhaps I just want to add a file to the digital dropbox. If I am at school and I forgot my flash drive and worked on something on the computer in the lab, I just want to add the file to the digital dropbox.</p><p> i. I can click on ”add file” and name it “Assignment 4”.</p><p> ii. Next I am going to browse on my desktop to find an assignment and open the file. Then I will add a comment “Assignment 4 – don’t forget to submit by Friday”. This will be a note to yourself. Click submit.</p><p> iii. Then you will get a note from Blackboard saying, “the file has been added but not sent”. To send the file, click “send file”. Send file can be used to simultaneously add and send a file.</p><p> iv. To send the file, click “send file” and it will be sent. Click okay and submit.</p><p> v. A new message will appear saying “Assignment 4 has been added to the dropbox”. Click ok.</p><p> vi. Now you see Assignment 4 has been added and posted, along with my comment “Don’t forget to submit by Friday”.</p><p>So that is how to submit a file to your instructor and also add a file to your digital dropbox.</p>