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The assignment feature in Moodle makes it very easy for students to submit their assignment files to instructors. It includes excellent features that make it easy for instructors to receive, manage, and return those files back to students along with the feedback.

1. In the upper right-hand corner, click the  "Edit Mode"  on the top right:

  2. Next click Add an activity or Resource on the course front page within a topic or a week field: Select Assignment .

3. Add a title in the assignment name box and add the assignment details in the description box:

4. Select appropriate for your assignment values in the Availability block. These settings will determine when students will be able to submit the assignment, due dates, etc. You can find the full description of each component for   Moodle under Assignment Settings .

5. Next block called Submission Settings controls how students will submit the assignment: whether they submit an independent file or type their assignment directly into Moodle, etc. Full description of Submission Settings for Moodle.

6. The block called Feedback Types controls how instructors will give feedback to students. Full description of Feedback Settings for Moodle.

7. Determine how the assignment will be graded in Grade . Full description of Grade Settings for Moodle.  

8. The last two blocks, Common Module Settings and Restrict Access , give you the ability to turn on group submission and create some restrictions for students accessing the assignment. Full descriptions of  Common Module Settings and Restrict Access are available.

9. Once all appropriate settings are selected and set, click "Save and Return to course."

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Making the most of Moodle’s Assignments for formative and summative assessment

Moodle’s assignment activities are easy to set up and offer many possibilities to create unique learning experiences for your students.

The Assignment activity in Moodle allows students to submit work for their teachers to grade or assess. The learners’ submissions may be text typed online or uploaded files of any format that the teachers specify. While creating an Assignment is quite straightforward, this activity has several settings that educators can combine to create unique experiences for their learners. 

Moodle Assignment for formative and summative assessment

Because it has so many combinations of configuration, the Assignment activity can be used both for formative assessment and summative evaluation. The table below outlines the goals and characteristics of each type of assessment: 

In formative assessment the goal is to monitor student learning therefore the assignments should be set to be always available, without necessarily being graded, allowing additional attempts, with no pass grade required (if it is graded). The  activity completion is usually set to “view” or “submit”. An formative assignment such as this often gets a 0% weight in the gradebook. 

In summative assessment, the goal is to evaluate student learning via assessment, thus a summative assignment is usually  set up with clear start, end and cut-off dates. It will be graded, with additional attempts to re-open the assessment set manually. Summative assessments are usually set with a required pass grade and the activity completion linked to requiring a “grade”. Summative assignments often have a weight higher than 20% in the gradebook.

Moodle Assignment submissions

There are many ways to combine submission types and settings in Assignment activity to achieve your teaching and learning goals or simply streamline your class management:

Assignments with no submission required These are assignments where learners don’t have to submit anything to complete the assessment. While this may sound counterintuitive, this type of Assignment can be used, for instance, for offline assessment -use it as an attendance sheet on a field trip- or for example, to assess a face-to-face speaking Assignment where learners really don’t have anything to submit. 

Assignments with online text submission With this type of Assignment submissions, learners add their work directly into the Assignment activity using the Atto editor, a rich text editor that allows learners to write text, add images and even record audio or video files. For this and for all other submission types, you can enable an option to allow learners to work in draft versions of their Assignment before sending the final submission.

Assignments with file submission This type of submission for Assignments requires learners to submit a file -teachers can define its format and size- for teachers to evaluate. To streamline the grading process, teachers can download all submissions at once, including a grading worksheet that displays the user name, email and submission status and allows teachers to add a grade and feedback in comments – and then bulk-upload all assessments back to Moodle, including a separate feedback file for each submission.

Group assignments in Moodle Collaborative learning is at the heart of Moodle LMS, so Moodle Assignments can easily be set up to be submitted as a group. Teachers can set these Assignments up so that only one of the group members has to submit the file, or make it mandatory for each team member to make the submission. Favourite tip: Our Moodle Academy team recommends combining this type of Assignment with a peer evaluation to know how the experience was for each of the group members.

Grading Moodle Assignments

Moodle Assignments support two main types of grading: simple direct grading and advanced grading. The first group includes grading done through numerical scales, custom scales (for example, stars or words like weak , satisfactory , strong , etc) or no grading at all. Advanced grading methods in Moodle include rubrics and marking guides, and we’ll look at them in more detail:

Moodle Assignment: assessment with marking guides In this type of grading, the teacher defines a series of criteria and assigns a maximum amount of marking points to each. When assessing learners’ assignments, the teachers provide both a numerical mark and a comment for each of the criteria. For this type of grading, you can make the criteria and maximum marking points available for learners to see – this helps them know what’s expected from them and what they need to cover in their submission. Favourite tip: Use ‘frequently used comments’ to speed up your grading process and to ensure that your grading is consistent.

Moodle Assignment: assessment with rubrics For grading with rubrics, teachers create a set of criteria with several levels of achievement, all displayed on a table. Sharing the rubric with learners is important, as it lets learners know how they’ll be assessed. For each submission, the rubric will be displayed to teachers, who then can select the level of accomplishment for each of the criteria just by clicking on it, as well as leave written feedback if necessary.

Moodle Assignment: assessment with marking workflow When you set up a marking workflow for an Assignment, it means that learners’ work can be assessed by several teachers. You can manually design the workflow and define the sequence of states (eg not marked , in marking , marked ), as well as allocate marking to another teacher.

This content has been extracted from the Moodle Academy webinar Assessment: exploring Assignments, facilitated by Moodle Education Advisor Anna Krassa. Watch the full webinar on our Moodle Academy site to see 7 real life examples on how you can combine submission types and grading types with availability and different types of feedback to create the right Assignment for your teaching and learning goals .

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General Information

The Moodle Assignment activity provides a place for students to submit work for grading and feedback. Students can submit any digital content (files), such as word-processed documents, spreadsheets, images, and audio and video clips. Responses can also be typed directly into the text editor. An assignment can also be used to create a grade item in the gradebook for assignments they complete outside of Moodle, and thus not require any digital content. Students can submit work individually or as a member of a group, and submissions can be timed.

Assignments can be graded using a numerical or custom scale, or with an advanced grading method such as a rubric. If “Advanced grading” is selected, instructors can enter a grading guide or rubric. When reviewing assignments, feedback can take the form of comments or uploaded files, such as marked-up student submissions, documents with comments, or spoken audio feedback. Grading through the assignment will automatically update the gradebook.  

Best Practices and Considerations

When using the Assignment , consider the following:

Include clear instructions for students in the assignment description such as citation standards, formatting guidelines, suggested response length, and whether the assignment is timed. Accepted file types can be selected in settings.

Timed assignments can be useful for essay quizzes or to practice timed writing.

Use the Turnitin plagiarism plugin settings to enable the Turnitin Feedback Studio and other tools for the submission. For more information, see Moodle Activity Settings: Turnitin Plagiarism Plugin .

Use a grading rubric or grading guide to set clear expectations and maintain consistency in grading.

For assignments requiring large file submissions (such as video), require students include links to files in cloud-based storage.  

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Click on the following articles to learn more about working with the Assignment activity.

• Creating and Editing an Assignment (Faculty)
• Grading an Assignment
• Submitting an Assignment (Students)  

For more information on assignments, read the following documentation from Moodle Docs. Note that the documentation may not show the modern Moodle theme, but the functionality of the settings is the same. All links will open in a new window.

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The assignment activity has specialized group settings to help facilitate collaborative work.

Before configuring groups in an assignment, make sure to create groups . If you are using groups in more than one assignment you may also want to create a grouping .

• Open the assignment you want to add groups to
• Click Edit settings from the “Assignment administration” menu.
• In the "Group submissions settings" section, set "Students submit in groups" to Yes to enable group submissions.
• Set "Require group to make submission" to Yes if you don't want to allow students not in a group to be able to submit (they will see a message reading: "You're not a member of any group; please contact your teacher").
• The "Require all group members submit" field will become available if the "Require students click submit button" field (in the "Submission settings" section") is set to Yes . If both of these are enabled, the assignment will not be counted as submitted until all members of the group have visited the assignment and clicked the submit button. This is useful if multiple students need to upload contributions. When one student has submitted, the other members of the group will be able to see who still has to submit.

• Use the "Grouping for student groups" field if you are using groups in more than one activity in Moodle. For example, you may have one set of groups for a collaborative project and another set for discussions forums. See the Create a Grouping guide for details on setting up groupings.
• Click Save and display or Save and return to course .
• When you open the assignment, you will see Moodle is only expecting submissions for each group, rather than for each student.

• When grading submissions, you will see an option to "Apply grades and feedback to entire group." If you leave this set to its default Yes , all members of the group will automatically receive the same grades and feedback.

Moodle Assignments

Moodle Assignment allows academics to create a submission inbox page for students to submit work for grading.

It is a commonly used assessment activity that allows for grading, inline feedback, and group assessment.

Create an Assignment

Assignments are added as an activity through the "Add an activity/resource" button and choosing "Assignment".

Click ' Get Started' to view the step-by-step guide

Assignment Settings

The assignment provides many settings to specify how it will behave. Settings can be updated after the creation of the assignment but it is recommended not to make large changes after submissions have been made.

Create an offline Assignment

Is is also possible to create an assignment in Moodle that doesn't involve students submitting online text or uploading submission files.

This can be done when teaching staff wants to provide information about the assignment for students via a link on the Moodle course home page, but conduct that assignment outside Moodle - for example, mark students on a face-to-face presentation to the class.

Setting up an assignment in this way also creates a grade item in the Gradebook so that the offline assignment can be marked there, and feedback entered, or feedback files uploaded for delivery to students with their marks using Moodle.

Granting Extensions

Extensions can be granted for certain students under appropriate circumstances. Assignment allows extensions to be granted to individual students and groups of students.

Allowing Resubmission

If the "Require students to click the submit button" has been enabled, students cannot edit their submission after the 'submit' button is pressed.

Academics can revert a student's submission to a draft state so they can make changes and resubmit.

Submit Assignment on behalf of a Student

In some cases, students may experience issues submitting an assignment. Academics can submit on behalf of the student if they have a copy of the submission.

Assignment Marking

Once the assignment has been set up and students have made submissions, it is time for staff to mark the papers. Moodle Assignment contains features that allow for differing marking workflows, catering to the preference of academics. 

Marker Allocation

Marker allocation can be enabled during setup to divide marking between staff with any desired arrangement, or within tutorial classes.

Mark student submissions

Submissions can be graded once the assignment is set up and students have submitted. The grading page allows staff to provide marks, annotations, and feedback to students.

Download Multiple Assignments

Staff can download assignments to mark or provide feedback to students' paper externally or offline.

Upload Feedback Files

If submissions were downloaded and marked externally, it can be re-uploaded to Moodle as a feedback file. 

Creating a Group Assignment

The Moodle Assignment activity can also be set up to accept Group submissions. Group assignments require some additional set up as compared to the regular Moodle assignment.

Click ' Get Started' to view the step-by-step guide.

How to enable marking workflow?

The Marking workflow feature in Moodle assignment allows markers to set a workflow status for submissions, which reflects the current state of marking and will hide feedback from students until it is 'Released'. If you have enabled and then disabled workflow in your activity, marks may stay hidden until they are regraded.

To enable/disable marking workflow: 

1. Click 'Turn editing on' towards the top right of your course.

2. Click 'Edit' and 'Edit settings' beside the assignment.

3. In the 'Grade' section, set 'Use marking workflow' to 'Yes'/'No'.

Once marking workflow is enabled, the following options are available in the Grade window:

How to bulk upload student submissions?

Only the Assignment activity allows bulk upload of submissions. Instructors can bulk upload:

1. In the settings block of the assignment activity, click 'Bulk upload submissions'.

2. Upload a zip file containing student papers named with their zID.

3. Click 'Save changes'.

How to get notified when students submit assignment?

Notifications for student submissions can be enabled/disabled in the Assignment activity settings. To do this:

1. Click 'Turn editing on' in your course home page. 2. Navigate to the 'Edit settings' menu for your assignment. 3. In the 'Notifications' tab, make your selections from the dropdown menus. 4. Once you are done, click 'Save and return to course'.

Note: Turnitin Assignments do not have the same feature.

Can I set up an assignment as a peer review activity?

You cannot do peer assessment in Moodle assignment, there is no feature to allow students to assess each other. The UNSW Workshop can be used for students to give peer feedback of each other’s submissions. 

I can't see 'Edit Submission' button.

If an academic wants to upload students' paper on their behalf, but the due date has already passed, there are few steps needed to enable it.

1. Cut off date must be set in the future or a student must be granted extension

2. If paper is already submitted, it must be reverted to draft status

3. Edit submission button then appears and can be used to upload another paper on behalf of student (or allow students to upload themselves)

4. If 'Submit button' setting is applied, academic uploading paper on student's behalf should also click 'Submit for grading' button

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This page provides an overview of how to create a Moodle Assignment where students submit in groups. Before using group assignments, you will need to set up and apply groupings in addition to groups. This is because group submissions can disappear if groups are used and a student is in one group and is subsequently added to another group.

Read the Get started - Group assignment guidance before you start. This assignment type is more complex that other assignment activities.

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• Anonymous submissions are not enabled.
• Turnitin is not enabled so no Similarity Report is produced.

If you are familiar with the assignment set up, you will only need to review:  

• Group assignment settings.

Screencast: Create a group assignment

This screencast demonstrates how to create a group assignment in Moodle 4. 

• Turn Edit Mode on. 
• Open the relevant section. Select Add an activity or resource . Select Assignment from the Activities tab.
• In the General settings, write a meaningful Assignment name . This is the name that will be displayed on the module page and also in the gradebook.
• In  Description , provide clear instructions to your students about the assignment. Consider adding a link to the student educational technology guidance.
• Check Display Description on module page  to display the description beneath the assignment activity on the module page. If unchecked, the Description will only display when a student opens the assignment.
• Do not use  Activity Instructions , as these will   only display to students  after  they have opened the assignment (usually at the point of submission). This setting should only be used for timed Moodle assignments. 
• If required, in Additional files , upload any files you would like to attach to this assignment (e.g. assignment cover sheet or example submissions). Download links for the files will be displayed on the assignment page under the Description.
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• In the Availability section, set the Allow submissions from date to indicate from when students will be able to submit their coursework. This is enabled by default. 
• Set the Due date to match the assignment deadline. This date displays on the module page it is added to the Moodle Calendar and the students' Timeline block.
• Check the box next to Enable to set a Cut-off date . This is the final date and time when coursework can be submitted. Any submissions added after the Due date will be marked as late. Once the Cut-off date has passed, the submit button will not display on the assignment.
• Disable or update the  Remind me to grade by date. This appears in Timeline and Upcoming events block for staff enrolled on a module to remind them of grading deadlines.
• Do not use Time Limit . This feature is for setting timed assignments.
• In Submission types , select the box to indicate if the submission will be online text or whether students will upload one or more files. 
• If Online text submissions are enabled, students type rich text directly into an editor field for their submission. Markers can comment on, and edit students' text directly. Tick the Enable box to set a word limit. Set the maximum number of words that each student will be allowed to submit.
• Note: This is also the maximum number of feedback files that you can attach to each individual student when providing feedback. For example, if you want a student to submit one file but want to upload two feedback files then select three files.
• The maximum submission size defaults to the maximum upload limit for Moodle of 400MB . This default can be decreased if required.  Please note: If you have Turnitin enabled on Moodle assignments that Turnitin's upload limit is 100MB .
• The lecturer can specify the types of file the students may upload to the assignment. The file types may be added with their file extension, such as .png and mp3, or else as image/png and audio/mp3.
• Accepted file types can be restricted by entering a semicolon-separated list of mimetypes, for example: 'video/mp4; audio/mp3; image/png; image/jpeg'. You may also limit to extensions by including the dot, for example '.png; .jpg'.
• If the file types have been restricted, then when students attempt to submit the assignment, they will see a message telling them which files are accepted.
• Leaving the field blank will allow all file types.

Feedback types controls how you can provide feedback. In most cases, you will not need to change these settings unless you have an online text submission. Set Comment inline to Yes for online text submissions.

• Set Require students to click the submit button to Yes if you want the option to Require all group members to submit from the Group assignment settings.
• The setting Require that students accept the submission statement is enabled by default on assignments. Do not change this setting as it is important that students understand what is required of them in regards to academic integrity prior to submitting an assignment.

• When a student who is not in a group attempts to submit Moodle will display a message You're not a member of any group; please contact your lecturer . The student will not be able to submit the assignment.
• If Yes is selected, then the assignment will not be classed as submitted until all members of the group have clicked the Submit assignment button.
• This setting becomes selectable if you set  Require students to click the submit button  to  Yes  under the Submission settings.
• Select a Grouping in the  Grouping for student groups  drop-down menu.

• The other grading methods are Rubrics and Marking records.
• Anonymous submissions aren't possible with groups as the lecturer can see the membership of each groups.
• Use  Marking workflow  is an  optional workflow  that requires grades to go through a series of stages before they're released to students. 
• This option might be required if course officers are uploading feedback received from lecturers.

• If you want all Lecturers and Programme Administrators on a module to be notified via email of late submissions change Notify graders about late submissions to Yes .
• The Default setting for Notify students is Yes . Do not change this setting as it controls the generation of an email to students on release of grades and feedback.
• From the Common module settings , you can set Availability to Show or Hide on course page .
• You do not need to change the Group mode .
• Select Save and return to module .

You can use the Restrict access settings to control the availability of content and activities based on one or more conditions, including date and group. 

Activity completion allows you to set completion criteria for a specific activity or resource.

Activities or resources with a completion criteria display a circle next to them in the Module index. The circle turns green (and is filled in) when the student meet the criteria. On the main module page, a tick and the word "done" appears against the item when the student meets the criteria. This helps students manage their progress on a module and staff can easily review student engagement and progress against key activities.

You can combine Restrict access   and Activity completion to provide structured pathways through your module.

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• Open the activity or resource.
• Select Settings from the contextual navigation menu above the module name. This opens the activity settings.
• Change the settings required.
• Select Save and return to module  to save any changes made.
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How to mark an Assignment online in Moodle

Published on: 31/07/2023 · Last updated on: 31/07/2024

Preparing to grade an Assignment

Before beginning marking it’s important to understand how your assignment has been setup, so that you can ensure that you are not showing marks and feedback to students before you are ready for them to see them .

By default, Moodle assignments hide grades and feedback from students through the ‘Marking Workflow’ option.

When you create an Assignment, the ‘Marking Workflow’ setting will be enabled. This automatically hides any marks and feedback that you upload for students until you take specific steps to release the marks and feedback. This is a ‘safer’ option for the requirements of most Teachers .

Guidance on  releasing Marks and Feedback, and sending a notification to students  with a few clicks, using marking workflow can be found below.

If you prefer instead to turn off the marking workflow option you can do so within the Assignment’s settings, under the ‘Grade’ settings.  Note that doing this will mean that any marks and feedback added to Moodle will be immediately visible to students!

If you have turned off Marking Workflow, but you  also  don’t want students to see marks and feedback as soon as they are uploaded, you will need to hide the Assignment link and Gradebook item until you are ready to reveal the marks and feedback.

The guidance below shows how to turn off Marking Workflow (if you wish) and how to hide the Assignment link and Gradebook item:

• Find your Assignment and select Settings

• Scroll down to ‘ Grade ’ settings and expand them
• Set  use marking workflow  to  no
• Save changes

Note: Any marks and feedback you add will now be immediately visible to students!

To manually hide marks and feedback from students you will need to hide the Assignment’s  Gradebook item  and the  Assignment link  (which is often not practical where there are late submissions)

To hide the Gradebook item:

• Go to the  Course Homepage  and choose the Grades tab
• From the Grader Report drop-down menu, choose Gradebook Setup .

• In the row for the Assignment that you wish to hide, in the  Actions  column, choose  Edit  then  Hide .

• Save Changes .
• The Gradebook item will now appear to be greyed out to show that it is not visible to students.

To hide the Assignment link from students:  

• Navigate to the Assignment and, from its  Edit  drop-down menu, choose  Hide .

• You can now begin marking.

Note : When are ready to release marks and feedback to students, don’t forget that you’ll need to make the  Gradebook item  and  Assignment  link visible again.

Lock submissions to prevent changes

Before you begin marking it’s a good idea to lock submissions. This will prevent students from making any changes to their submissions once marking is underway. To do so, navigate to your Assignment and View all submissions .

• Tick the box at the top of the ‘select’ column to select all user submissions.
• From the ‘ With selected…’ drop-down menu choose Lock Submissions .

Note: If you have a large number of students you will need to select the option under the table to ‘show all students on one page’.

Moodle grading interface overview

Moodle has a built-in grading interface that allows you to annotate student assignments, add summary comments and award marks. Student submissions are displayed in PDF form and include a link to the Ouriginal similarity report (where activated).

The image below gives an overview of the built-in grading interface:

• Use the next and previous arrows to move to the next page of the student’s document or choose a page from the drop-down menu.
• Add an annotation to comment (with option to choose background colour).
• Use the arrow tool to select, move or delete existing annotations.
• Other tools such as the pen (squiggly line) for free form drawing or writing, shape tools, line, highlighter)
• Stamp tool/x tool.
• Anchor for an annotation (if you hover over it, it expands to reveal the annotation)
• An annotation
• Click the sub-menu icon in annotation (top right corner) to delete or add annotation to a ‘quicklist’ for the assignment).
• Use navigation to see Previous/Next student’s assignment or filter.
• Add grade here in the right-hand pane.
• Summary feedback can be entered here
• Don’t forget to save any changes made!
• Click to cycle through the options for screen layout

The video below provides an introduction to the grading interface, shows how to annotate student scripts, view Ouriginal reports and award marks. It also details how you can lift anonymity (where anonymous marking is being used) at the end of the marking process.

Marking Assignments Online

Marking a Group Assignment

Where one student has uploaded a file on behalf of her Group, the file will appear against all Group members, and any of these can be marked. On the individual student grading page, an option to ‘ Apply grade and feedback to all members of group ’ will appear. If ticked the grades and feedback will be applied to all group members. 

Allocate Assignments to another Marker

You can use the  Marking Allocation  feature to assign student submissions to a specific marker in your Moodle space.

• Marking allocation  – this allows allocation of markers to work after the deadline.  Marking allocation  depends on  Marking workflow  being enabled.

Marking Workflow  and  Marking Allocation  must be enabled in your assignment settings.

Once these have been enabled, you can allocate assignments to a marker.

• Click on your Assignment link
• Click on  View all submissions

• Tick the box to the left of the student whose assignment you want to allocate, then choose  Set allocated marker  and click  Go .
• At the prompt click  Ok , then on the next page select your allocated marker from the drop-down menu and click  Save Changes .

How to lift anonymity in an Assignment

If you are using Anonymous Marking (blind marking) in Moodle, once you have completed marking, it is necessary to lift anonymity in order to release grades to the Gradebook. Please note that lifting anonymity can only be done once, (you cannot return the assignment to an anonymous state once it has been lifted), so ensure that you have completed all marking before going ahead. 

To lift anonymity.

• Click on the assignment link, then click on  View all submissions
• From the grading actions menu choose  Reveal student identities:

This video also shows the process for lifting anonymity: https://uniofbath.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=dbdb18a7-e4f2-40af-a7fe-acd800a3803c&start=0

Lifting Anonymity

Related Articles

• Anonymous marking in Moodle
• Advanced Grading in Moodle
• Group Peer Review for Teachers
• How to mark an Assignment offline and upload feedback
• Using Ouriginal
• How to create an Assignment

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Modified on: Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 4:25 PM

Create a Turnitin Assignment  

• In your course, click on Create learning activity at the bottom of the section.  

2. In either the All or Activities tab, select Turnitin Assignment 2 .

3. Select settings for your assignment. 4. Click Save and return to course to return to your course page. To continue setting up your assignment, click Save and display  or reenter the assignment from your course page.

5. You can change any of the dates you previously set in this view. The Grades Available column shows the maximum grade for the assignment. When creating a Turnitin assignment, a grade item will automatically be created in the Gradebook. Be sure to go into the gradebook to ensure it is weighted properly and in the correct category if applicable.

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Documentation

Note: You are currently viewing documentation for Moodle 1.9. Up-to-date documentation for the latest stable version is available here: Creating an assignment submission area .

Creating an assignment submission area

An assignment is an activity for students to work on and submit to the teacher. This can be done by hand or electronically. The teacher can comment upon the assignment and award a grade. Teachers may also comment and return it to students before accepting the assignment for grading.

Creating and Using Assignments

Select assignment activity.

• Make sure you click on Turn editing on in the top right hand corner if it is not already done.
• Offline activity - If they cannot submit electronically you can examin their work in another way, but you can then use Moodle to award the marks and to send feedback. This facilitates fast communication back to the learner, but possibly even more importantly - keeps a record of the mark and feedback
• Upload a single file - if you want them to submit a file electronically (on the next page in a minute you will have to specify the maximum size, whether you want to be emailed for every submission and whether you will allow them to resubmit more than once)
• Online Text - if you just want them to type their submission directly into Moodle (instead of using a Word Processor). This is useful for shorter assignments, or where they are constantly making small changes. It also allows you to insert comments in the middle of their assignments. (on the next page in a minute you will have to specify whether they can resubmit more than once, whether you want to be emailed for every submission made and whether you want to be able to insert comments inside their submission "inline comments")

Fill in assignment settings

Fill in the form that comes up as follows:

• Assignment name: a meaningful short description of the assignment that will appear in the area/week you put the assignment. (This should contain as much information as possible in a very terse form eg. "Assignment Submission area: NO. 3: A powerpoint presentation" - it can stretch over more than one line if necessary)
• If it is a very long specifications that you may already have prepared in another format (eg. MS Word), you can upload and link to the full description elsewhere (Add a resource.. Link to file or website) and just write a few words here telling them where to find it.
• If you want to write a longer explanation here you can, or you can copy and paste from a Word document.
• "To submit your document electronically, use the Browse button below, find the document form on your PC (you may have to select the correct drive and folder), click on it and then click on Open, then select Upload this file."
• Grade: set the maximum mark for the assignment. You can have No grade if you just want to provide feedback only.
• Available from and Due date: make sure it is realistic, students tend to take this seriously. **It won't allow them upload after the due date - unless
• Prevent late assignments: check this box if they can (in which case you will be informed that the submission was late and can mark accordingly)
• Select Next to move on to some other settings as described in the section immediately above.
• Save or Cancel