When an instructor requires an Authorship report on a Blackboard assignment, follow the steps below to share your report along with your work.
Important: Before you start writing, turn on Authorship in your Google Doc or Word document first—it only tracks activity from the moment it’s turned on. Then open your report and turn on sharing so your instructor can view it, and copy the report’s share URL.
1. Open the assignment and check the requirements
After your instructor enables Authorship, opening the assignment from Courses, Recent Activity, or the Calendar shows a sidebar panel confirming that the assignment requires an Authorship report.
2. Paste your Authorship report URL
Click View Instructions in the assignment to see the Authorship report URL submission box alongside the instructions. Paste the share link from your report and click Submit.
3. Confirm the link was saved
After you submit the report URL, a confirmation message appears. You can still replace the report before you submit the assignment itself.
4. Accept the End User License Agreement
The first time you work on an Authorship-enabled assignment, you must review and accept the End User License Agreement. Declining blocks assignment submission.
5. Submit your assignment
Once the assignment is submitted, your Authorship report appears in the sidebar panel for your reference.
If you submit the assignment without first submitting the report URL, a warning appears stating that your Authorship report is missing and provides a box to submit it right there.
Both you and your instructor see an overall text score in the top-right corner of the submission view—the percentage of text marked as typed.