Uploading An Entire Class’s Graded Documents into a Cobra Dropbox at the Same Time
Step 1. Go to the specific Cobra dropbox for the assignment you are grading. Click on the little box to the left of the word
Download so that all students’ names are checked. Select the
Download button to the immediate right of the checkbox.
Step 2. A new window should appear telling you that a compressed
(zip) file is being created. The window should look something like this.
Click on the blue link.
Step 3. Go to where your file is downloaded. You should see a
new zipped file. You can tell you have a zipped file because there is a zipper on the folder. Right click the zipped folder and scroll down to Extract
All…
Note: by default your download may be in the Downloads folder on your computer. Or you may have been prompted where to download it.
Step 4. You should now see a window like the one below. When you have determined where you want your files to go, select
Extract. Make sure the
Show
extracted files when complete box is checked.

Step 5. At this point, you should have two identically named
folders, one of them zipped and one of them unzipped:
Step 6. Open up the unzipped folder, and do all of your grading
in that folder.
Note:
do notchange any file names (don’t remove the numbers that come before the file names. These numbers serve as “trackers” that put student documents back into
the proper student accounts when you are finished grading). Do not remove or add documents to this folder. Just open up each document, grade it,
and save it with the exact same name. Do not
remove the Index file.
Step 7. When you are finished grading the entire folder, close the
folder and
right click on it.
Scroll to
Send to and
Compressed (zipped) folder. A new zipped folder will appear, and it will
have a (2) in the title since this is the most recent folder with this name. This
is the folder you will send back to Cobra dropbox.
Step 8. Go back to your Cobra dropbox for this specific assignment
and select
Add Feedback Files
at the top of the screen.
Upload
and
Add the newly created
zipped folder of graded work as you normally would upload any document.
Step 9. You should now see
Saved
draft in each student’s dropbox because the student’s graded work has
been uploaded to his/her dropbox. Your final step is to click on the little box
to the left of
Download so
that each student’s name is checked. Then, select
Publish Feedback.
Authored by Angela Gulick