When you have downloaded your student submissions to your computer, you can organise them further by creating a PDF document of submissions for each assignment. The following instructions are for PC's, Macs, and Adobe Acrobat.

To save images and documents as a pdf on your PC, complete the following steps.

  1. If you downloaded your submissions as a bulk download they appear on your computer as a ZIP file. Locate the ZIP file on your computer.
  2. To open the ZIP file, right-click on it and select Extract All. If you need more instructions to open a zip file, see https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/14200/windows-compress-uncompress-zip-files
  3. Open the extracted file and find the submission files. They may be a mix of image files.
  4. Select all of the images in your folder that you want to combine and right-click on the selection. From the pop up menu, select Print.
  5. Select Microsoft Print to PDF from the Printer drop-down list. You can then change some print settings to sharpen the images, fit the picture to the frame (resizing it to include any cut off parts) and change the orientation if you wish.
  6. Click Print to create your PDF. Choose a name and location to save your file on your computer and click Save.
Note: These instructions are for a Windows 10 PC. Instructions may vary a little for other Windows operating systems.

To save images and documents as a pdf on your Mac, complete the following steps.

  1. If you downloaded your submissions as a bulk download they appear on your computer as a ZIP file. Locate the ZIP file on your computer.
  2. Double click to open the ZIP file. This will expand the file, allowing you to click the submissions folder to view the assignment submissions.
  3. Find the submission files, select all of the images in your folder that you want to combine and CTRL+click (right-click) to open the menu.
  4. Select Open With... and click Preview from the sub menu to open the Preview application. The selected images will show in one document in Preview.
  5. Click File and then click Print to open the print dialog box.
  6. At the bottom of the dialog box, click the PDF dropdown list and select Save as PDF. Choose a name and location to save your file on your computer and click Save.

Adobe Acrobat also allows you to create PDFs from multiple files, this can be done with a simple drag and drop or from the Acrobat menu.

Note: This only works in Adobe Acrobat, not Adobe Reader.

To use adobe Acrobat to create PDFs from multiple files, complete the following steps.

  1. Open Adobe Acrobat. Click Tools > Create PDF.
  2. Select the files in the folder or desktop of your computer.
  3. Drag the files onto the Acrobat application icon on your computer or drag the files into the open Acrobat window (Windows only).
    4. Note: If a file cannot be opened in Acrobat, then that file type cannot be converted to PDF by the drag-and-drop method. You may need to create your PDF using the other methods outlined here.

  4. Save the PDF

For the steps involved in creating a PDF of files from Adobe Acrobat, see here.