Skip to main content
Indiana Wesleyan University Support Knowledge Base

Submitting an Assignment - Workaround

Goal

To provide alternative workarounds for submitting an assignment until such time the current assignment submission issue is resolved.

Issue

When navigating to an Assignment content page and attempting to submit an assignment through the "Access the Assignment submission page", users may encounter an issue after selecting the "Add a file" button.  

clipboard_e1c8b59b5b21852823558716dab44b68b.png

clipboard_e81d5dc6793a8103bed5cd75fcfc8ef6e.png

The pop-up box to select and upload the file may be grayed out.  

clipboard_e9ee9e8a354efd1a50192ad37cbf7c713.png

If this occurs, close out the browser window and navigate back to your course in Brightspace and submit your assignment using one of the workarounds listed below.

Option 1

1.  Select "Activities" from the course navbar and choose "Assignments" from the dropdown menu.

clipboard_e4268fdc0f0529c4b13a1323c5f1a0dad.png

2.  Select the assignment link you would like to submit to.

clipboard_e161f8b675ea646d3a562d54105af94dc.png

3.  Select the "Add a File" button and upload your assignment as usual.

clipboard_e36e7dad07132e41f042fcc24bbcbb658.png

clipboard_ebe106f82e3b889e905311cb66143647d.png

Option 2