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• MDLQA-4602 Moodle 2.4 QA

A teacher can prevent or allow assigment submission changes

• Fix Version/s: Moodle 2.4
• Affects Version/s: Moodle 2.4
• Component/s: Assignment , Student , Teacher
• Labels: None

Description

1. Log in as a teacher and create a new assignment, setting online text to yes and file submissions to no. 2. Log in as a student, click the 'Add submission' button, enter some text, then click the 'Save changes' button. 3. Click the 'Edit my submission' button, enter some more text, then click the 'Save changes' button. 4. Log in as the teacher, click the 'View/grade all submissions' link and in the edit column for the student's submission, select 'Prevent submission changes'. 5. Check that the status column now states 'Submission changes not allowed'. 6. Log in as the student and check that there is no longer an 'Edit my submission' button and that the submission status states 'This assignment is not accepting submissions'. 7. Log in as the teacher, click the 'View/grade all submissions' link and in the edit column for the student's submission, select 'Allow submission changes'. 8. Log in as the student and check that there is once again an 'Edit my submission' button.

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Php the_field('headline'); >, why won’t the assignment take my submission.

When you click an assignment in Moodle, you should see an Add submission button.

If that button doesn’t appear, it could be that the assignment is either not yet accepting submissions or has stopped accepting them based on dates that the instructor has set.

If the assignment accepts submissions only after a specified date, and you try to submit too early, the submission page won’t show an option to submit but instead will note the start date for the assignment.

If a cut-off date for the assignment is enabled, late submissions won’t be accepted. Instead, you’ll see this message on the Submission status page:

If you submit after the due date to an assignment that does accept late submissions, the Submission status page will note that the submission is overdue.

If none of these are the case, contact your instructor or Client Services for more help.

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Many classes at BCC, especially online classes, will require you to submit your student work electronically through our Moodle Learning Management System. Submitting work is easy, the steps below will show how.

Note: Make sure you are logged into your Moodle course and have navigated to the assignment before beginning these instructions. If you need help logging into your Moodle course, please see our article on How to Log Into Moodle .

• The Assignment screen will appear showing instructions and your Submission status (date submitted, grade, etc.) for this assignment. Read the assignment instructions as each assignment may be different and you don't want to miss important information from your professor.
• Open a word-processing program such as Word, type your assignment as your professor instructed, and save it to your computer.

Note: If you are submitting the assignment late the " Add submission " button may not appear as some instructors do not accept late assignments. If this is the case contact your instructor to discuss next steps.

• Click on Upload a file , then click Browse .

Note: Keep going! Your work is not submitted quite yet!

You may click the Edit submission button to add or replace uploaded files before finalizing.

Note: Once you click "Continue" you will not be able to make any more changes.

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Moodle - Assignment

What does the assignment activity do.

The Assignment activity enables a lecturer to communicate tasks, collect work a s well as provide grades and feedback.

Students can submit any digital content (files), such as word-processed documents, spreadsheets, images, or audio and video clips. Alternatively, or in addition, the assignment may require students to type text directly into the text editor. An assignment can also be used to remind students of 'real-world' assignments they need to complete offline, such as art work, and thus not require any digital content. Students can submit work individually or as a member of a group.

When reviewing assignments, teachers can leave feedback comments and upload files, such as marked-up student submissions, documents with comments or spoken audio feedback. Assignments can be graded using a numerical or custom scale or an advanced grading method such as a rubric. Final grades are recorded in the Gradebook.

Are you unsure if you should use Moodle assignment or Turnitin to help deliver and manage student assessments? Check out our comparison guide to help you decide which tool is more suitable.

Adding an Assignment

Before you can make any changes to your Moodle site content, you must first enable editing . To do this, click on t he 'Edit mode' butt on located at the top right of the page.

With editing enabled, you will see in each topic the following button :

Click the Assignment icon from the list to add. You can find more information about assignments by clicking "Explore this tool".

Step 4 – General settings

You will now see the 'Adding a new Assignment' page. Give your assignment a name, assessment type and weighting here . You can also add a description , and choose whether to display it on the course page (if not, students will only see it when clicking on the assignment) .

You should provide instructions for students in the ' Activity instructions ' and have the option to add relevant files below this.

Step 5 – Availability settings

Next, there are a range of settings you can alter, starting with t he Availability section , which are explained below:

Allow submissions from – this allows you to set the start date for the assignment, when the students are able to submit work.

Due Date – this allows you to set when the Assignment is due for hand in.

Cut-off date – this is the cut-off for hand - ins. It allows for students to hand in after the due date, but highlights to the marker if there was a late submission. The assignment will not accept submissions or allow edits after this time.

Always show description – if disabled, the Assignment description in the G eneral settings will only be visible to the students on the “allow submission from” date.

Step 6 – Submission types settings

The Submission types section has a range of options below . F or most assignments the default settings will be best .

Submission Types – you may choose between allowing students to submit files (default) or type directly into a text box on Moodle (with word limit).

Maximum number of uploaded files – allows you to set the maximum number of files a student can upload for their submission.

Maximum submission size – change the maximum size of the file students can submit.

Step 7 – Feedback types settings

The Feedback types section has a range of options to set how you would like to give feedback to students:

Feedback comments - allows you to add comments to each submission.

Annotate PDF - creates a PDF of the students work, allowing comments, drawings and stamps to be placed directly on top of a students work. This is browser based, so no extra software is needed.

Offline grading worksheet - allows for a CSV (comma separated value) file to be downloaded. It should open within Excel and allow the academic to edit the grades and add feedback comments. These can then be uploaded back into Moodle, where it will automatically populate the correct students' grading area.

Feedback files - allows you to upload a file with feedback in and attach to each submission.

Comment inline – if enabled, the submission text will be copied into the feedback comment field during grading, making it easier to comment inline (using a different colour, perhaps) or to edit the original text.

Step 8 – Submission settings

Under the Submission settings section, you can choose how you want the students to submit the work. Different combinations of these settings allow for different types of assignment:

Require students to click the submit button – if enabled, students will have to click a submit button to declare their work as final. This allows students to keep a draft version of the submission on the system. If the setting is changed from No to Yes after hand-ins have been made, those submissions will be regarded as final.

Require that students accept the submission statement – students must agree to a predefined statement stating the work is their own and does not contain any plagiarism.

Additional attempts – determines how student submission attempts are managed . The available options are:

Never – Only one attempt is permitted.

Manually – A lecturer can manually set specific students to be given a further attempt at submission.

Automatically until pass – Students are automatically given further att empts at submissions until the y achieve the G rade to pass value set in the Grade section for this assignment.

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Group submission settings.

The Group submission section has a range of options to select:

Students submit in groups – when enabled, students will be divided into groups based on the default set of groups or a custom grouping. A group submission will be shared among group members and all members of the group will see each others' changes to the submission.

Require all group members submit – if this is enabled, all the members of the group must click the submit button for the submission to be considered. If disabled, the group submission will be considered as submitted as soon as any member of the student group clicks the submit button.

Grouping for student groups – this is the grouping that the assignment will use to find groups for the student groups. If this is not set, the default groups will be used.

Notifications settings

Notify graders about submission s – if this setting is enabled, the grader (usually the lecturer) will receive a message whenever a student submits an assignment. The message methods are configurable.

Notify graders about late submission – if this is enabled, it will email the graders (lecturers) when work is submitted after the due date.

Grade settings

The Grade area allows you to choose the maximum grade available for an assignment . In addition:

The Grading Method allows you to choose a standard grading option: Simple direct gradin g , a Rubric or a Marking Guide. By selecting the Rubric or Marking Guide and then sav ing the Assignment, an option to create the rubric or marking guide will appear. (These will be produced as separate guides.)

Additional settings can be altered to set a pass grade, allow anonymous submissions from students or hide the identity of the grader.

Common module settings

The Common module settings relate to the groups and grouping selection for the Assignment.

Please see the separate online guide on Groups and Groupings for a more detailed explanation.

Restrict access settings

The Restrict access section allows for the overall resource to be hidden or released to a student defined by either a date or grade condition. Click Add restriction to display 5 options:

Activity Completion - require students to complete (or not complete) another activity

Date – prevent access until/or after a specified date / time

Grade – require students to achieve a specific grade on another activity before proceeding

User profile – this section allows you to define access by a user ID, name or a range of other fields that are available for a user to complete

Restriction set – this allows you to add a set of nested restrictions to apply complex logic

For example, you can choose to release the assignment to students on a certain date, but to only those who have ach ie ved a certain grade on a previous assignment.

Additionally, toggling the eye icon to the left-hand side of each restriction allows you to choose to have the resource:

Greyed out when the student can’t access it, so that they can see it but not attempt it.

Completely hidden, until the student has met your set criteria.

When you are finished, click o n ' Save and return to course ' button.

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The Assignment activity lets instructors communicate tasks, collect work, set due dates, and provide feedback and grades.

Students may submit digital files (such as word-processed documents, spreadsheets, images, or audio and video clips), or type text directly into a text submission box. Assignment activities can also be used to describe and grade work students will complete offline, such as art work, performances, or classroom presentations.

When reviewing assignment submissions, instructors can leave feedback comments or upload files such as marked-up student submissions, documents with comments, or spoken audio feedback. Assignments can be graded using points, a custom scale, or a rubric or grading guide. Grades entered on the Assignment grading page are added to the Moodle Gradebook ( For details, see Grade Assignments in Moodle) .

Note: Alternatively, you can create a Turnitin assignment, a separate option in the Add an activity or resource popup. For more information, see Turnitin in Moodle - an Overview . With Turnitin assignments, students upload papers to a separate inbox on the Turnitin server where they can be evaluated for originality.

• Locate the Section where you want to add the assignment. (If the section is collapsed, click the Arrow icon above the section name to expand the section.) At the bottom of the section, click +Add an activity or resource. The Add an activity or resource pop-up will open showing a tile for each available item. Note : By default, the pop-up opens to All and shows all activities and resources. If you have starred favorite activities or resources, the panel will open to Starred . To view only activities, at the top of the pop-up, click Activities .

• Click Save and return to course to return to your main course page or Save and display to view the assignment page.
• Assignment name (required) This name displays as a link on your course page. Use something unique that clearly identifies this assignment from other course activities. We recommend keeping the name short.
• Description (optional) Enter a summary of the assignment and instructions. Select Display description on course page to also display the description underneath the assignment link on your course page. (This works best if the description is very concise).
• Additional files (optional) Drag and drop files into the upload field to append the file to the assignment Description .

Availability

Select the corresponding Enable check box to set a date and time for

• Allow submissions from Determines when students can begin to submit to the assignment.
• Due date Determines when the assignment is due. The due date will show in the course Calendar and within the Activities block .
• Cut-off date Determine when the assignment will no longer accept submissions. (You can manually Grant Extensions Beyond the Cut-off Date to specific students if they need to submit after the cut-off date.)

Submission types

• Online text to allow students to enter text directly into an editor
• File submissions to allow students to upload one or more files
• Maximum number of uploaded files If file submissions are enabled, each student will be able to upload up to the set number of files for their submission.
• Maximum submission size If file submissions are enabled, each upload cannot exceed this size. (If a student can upload multiple files, and uploads files at different times, the total can exceed the set size.)
• Accepted file types To limit submissions to specific file types, click Choose . A pop up window containing a list of file type options will open. Select the allowed file types for submissions by clicking the check box next to each option, then click Save changes .

Feedback types

• Feedback comments If enabled, graders can provide written feedback for each submission. These comments are from the grader to the student.
• Feedback files If enabled, graders can upload files containing feedback when marking assignments. For example, you can upload marked up student submissions, documents with comments, or spoken audio feedback.
• Offline grading worksheet If enabled, graders can download a spreadsheet to later enter grades without having to be logged in to Moodle. This can be useful if you anticipate grading while disconnected from the Internet. For details, see Offline Grading for Moodle Assignment Submissions .
• Comment inline If enabled, the submission text will be copied into the feedback comment field during grading, making it easier to comment inline or to edit the original text.

Submission settings

• Require students to click submit button If enabled, students will have to click a Submit assignment button to declare their submission as final. Requiring that students affirmatively submit this way allows students to keep a draft version of the submission on the system. Note : If this setting is changed from No to Yes after students have made submissions, the existing submissions will be regarded as final.
• Require that students accept the submission statement If enabled, students will be shown a statement that declares they are submitting their own original work. They must accept the statement before their submission is processed.
• Attempts reopened If set to Manually , the student's submission can be reopened by a teacher. If set to Automatically until pass , the student's submission is automatically reopened until the student achieves a passing grade (defined under Grade ).
• Maximum attempts The maximum number of submissions allower per student. After this number of attempts has been made, the student's submission cannot be reopened.

Group submission settings

• Students submit in groups If enabled, students submit work together in groups rather than individually. For example, a group of students can submit one file that contains the joint work of the group. See Configure & Grade Group Assignments in Moodle .
• Require all group members submit If enabled, all students in a group must individually click their Submit assignment button in order to acknowledge that they are signing off on their group's joint submission. Note:  This option is available only if both the Students submit in groups and  Require students select submit button options are enabled.
• Grouping for student groups If Students submit in groups  is enabled, this option shows which grouping has been selected in the Common module settings  (see below).

Notifications

• Notify graders about submissions If enabled, instructors and TAs will receive an email alert whenever a student makes a submission. (This may not be manageable in a class with a large number of students.)
• Notify graders about late submissions If enabled, instructors and TAs will receive an email alert whenever a submission is made after the due date.
• Default setting for "Notify students" If enabled, the default setting for notifying students when grades are released will be set in the assignment grading interface. This can be changed manually during grading. For more information, see Grading Workflow and Allocation for Moodle Assignments .

Note : Students always receive an email confirmation after making a successful submission.

• None – The assignment will be ungraded and worth no points.
• Point – Grade out of a simple number of maximum points. Enter the maximum possible score for the assignment in the Maximum points field.
• Scale – Select a preset or custom scale from the Scale drop-down. (See Standard & Custom Grading Scales in Moodle .)
• Grading method Choose S imple direct grading, Grading guide or Rubric to grade the assignment. See Grade with Rubrics or Grading Guides in Moodle , to learn about using advanced grading methods.
• Grade category Select a Category in your gradebook under which you would like the assignment grade to be placed. See Grade Categories Options in the Moodle for instructions on how to create a category in your gradebook.
• Blind grading If enabled, instructors and TAs will not see student names when grading submissions. For details, see Blind Grading for Moodle Assignment Submissions . For instructions on how to download all submissions for an assignment, see Download Student Submissions from a Moodle Assignment . For more information on grading, see Grade Assignments in Moodle .
• Use grading workflow When enabled, grading an assignment goes through a series of workflow stages:  Not graded, In grading, Grading completed, In review, Ready for release,  and  Released. For more information, see Advanced Grading Workflow and Allocation for Moodle Assignments.
• Use grading allocation When both  Use grading workflow  and  Use grading allocation  are enabled, instructors can assign specific graders to grade specific students. For details, see Grading Workflow and Allocation for Moodle Assignments .

Common module settings

• Availability Set whether or not an assignment is visible to students. By default, new assignments are set to Show on course page . (This is comparable to using the Hide/Show icon for the activity on your course page.)
• ID number Setting an ID number identifies the activity for grade calculation purposes. See Custom Grade Formulas in he Moodle Gradebook .
• Group mode, Grouping These options let you restrict the assignment to particular groups of students you have already created in Moodle. For details, see Assign an Activity to a Group or Grouping in Moodle .

Restrict access

Use Restrict Access settings with care, and check for conflicts with other settings you may have made for the activity. Some settings may prevent students from accessing restricted content, including grades and due dates.

To add restrictions on accessing the activity, click Add restriction ... The  Add restriction  window will open, containing the following options:

• Date – prevents access until (or from) a specified date and time
• Grade – requires students achieve a specified grade
• User profile – controls access based on fields within the student’s profile
• Restriction set – adds a set of nested restrictions to apply complex logic

If you have groups in your course, you will see the following additional options:

• Group – allows or prevents access to students who belong to a specified group, or all groups
• Grouping – allows or prevents access to students who belong to a group within a specified grouping

For more on controlling access to activities see Control Access to Resources and Activities in Moodle .

While it is possible to edit the content or setup options for an existing assignment, proceed with caution if the assignment has already been released to students—especially if students have already submitted work. Changing some options, such as changing participants when working with groups, may result in student confusion and the loss of work that has already been submitted.

To change the content or options for an assignment you have already created:

• Next to the Assignment to update, click Edit , then select Edit Settings . The assignment's Updating Assignment page will open.
• The Updating Assignment page contains the same options available on the Adding a new Assignment page. Here you may change your assignment options as needed, including changing the due date, grading information, and availability of the assignment.
• After you have finished making the necessary changes, click Save and return to course to return to your main course page or Save and display to view the assignment page.

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Note: You are currently viewing documentation for Moodle 2.9. Up-to-date documentation for the latest stable version of Moodle may be available here: Assignment settings .

Assignment settings

• Using Assignment
• Assignment FAQ
• Upgrade tool
• 1 Adding and editing an Assignment activity
• 2.1 Assignment name
• 2.2 Description
• 2.3 Display description on course page
• 2.4 Additional files
• 3.1 Allow submissions from
• 3.2 Due date
• 3.3 Cut-off date
• 3.4 Always show description
• 4.1 Online text
• 4.2 File submissions
• 4.3 Maximum number of uploaded files
• 4.4 Maximum submission size
• 5.1 Feedback comments
• 5.2 Offline grading worksheet
• 5.3.1 Uploading multiple feedback files
• 5.4 Comment inline
• 6.1 Require students click submit button
• 6.2 Require that students accept the Submission statement
• 6.3 Attempts reopened
• 6.4 Maximum attempts
• 7.1 Students submit in groups
• 7.2 Require group to make submission
• 7.3 Require all group members submit
• 7.4 Grouping for student groups
• 8.1 Notify graders about submissions
• 8.2 Notify graders about late submission
• 9.2 Grading method
• 9.3 Grade Category
• 9.4 Grade to pass
• 9.5.1 Returning Marks to Students
• 9.6.1 Example use cases
• 9.7 Use marking allocation
• 10 Common module settings
• 11 Restrict access settings
• 12 Locally assigned roles
• 13 Assignment capabilities
• 14.1.1 Feedback plugin
• 14.1.2 Show recent submissions
• 14.1.3 Send submission receipt to students
• 14.1.4 Submission Statement
• 14.1.5 Default assignment settings
• 14.2.1 Manage assignment submission plugins
• 14.2.2 File submissions
• 14.2.3 Online text submissions
• 14.2.4 Submission comments
• 14.3.1 Manage assignment feedback plugins
• 14.3.2 Feedback comments
• 14.3.3 Annotate pdf
• 14.3.4 File feedback
• 14.4 Offline grading worksheet
• 15 See also

Adding and editing an Assignment activity

• To add a new Assignment activity to your course, login with the appropriate access rights (e.g.editing teacher, course creator or administrator) and Turn Editing On. Within the required Week or Topic Block click the 'Add an Activity or Resource' link.
• In the Add an activity or resource dialogue box that appears, select Assignment and click Add.
• To edit an existing Assignment activity, login to your course with the appropriate access rights (e.g. editing teacher, course creator or administrator) and Turn Editing On. Select the Update icon against the relevant Assignment item.
• Alternatively, after logging into your course simply click on the name of the Assignment activity you wish to edit and then click the Edit Settings link under Assignment administration within the Settings block.

The following configuration options are available when creating or editing/updating any Assignment activity. Only General,Availability and Submission types are open by default;the others are collapsed. To expand everything, click the "Expand all" link top right. Click on any screenshot to see it full size.

The General section allows you to give your assignment a name and description.

Assignment name

Give your Assignment a name (e.g. “Report on Topic 1 Content”). The title entered here will be the name that learners see in the course content area. Learners will click on this name to view the details of the assignment and, if applicable, submit their work.

Description

Provide instructions for your students here so they are clear what they have to do. Click the icon on the left to expand the toolbar and drag the bottom right of the text box out to expand it.

You can also provide information or resources related to the assignment, such as a video clip, an image, or a link to a web page.

Display description on course page

Enabling this will display the description on the course page just below the link to the assignment activity.

Additional files

Here a teacher can attach files which may be of help to the students as they do their assignment, such as example submissions or answer templates.

Availability

Allow submissions from.

The Allow submissions from setting prevents students from submitting their assignment before the shown date. A teacher can to set a day, month, year and time (24 hour clock) from which learners can begin to submit their assignments. Please note that this setting does not hide the activity from the learners. Instead, the learner will see the activity, be able to view the instructions and use any materials you have included in the description, but the learner will not be able to submit or complete the assignment until the Allow submissions from date.

This setting is enabled (ticked/checked) by default and is set at the day and time you added the assignment. To disable this, remove the tick/check.

The Due date setting establishes when the assignment is due. Submissions will still be allowed after this date, but any assignments submitted after this date are marked as late.

This option allows an teacher to set a day, month, year and time (24 hour clock) before which learners must submit their assignment.

By default the Due date is Enabled (ticked) and is set at 7 days ahead of the day and time you selected Add Assignment. To disable this feature, simply ensure the Enable checkbox is not marked. For more information on using the Due Date see Assignment FAQ .

Note: Assignments without a Due date will appear on the Dashboard with “No Due date” displayed.

Cut-off date

The Cut-off date is the date beyond which students will not be able to send in their assignment as the button for doing so will no longer be displayed. After that date (or time) a teacher may, on request, grant an extension by going to the class assignment grading screen, clicking the "Edit" column and choosing "grant extension" for the relevant student.

For more details, see this Youtube screencast Assignment Extensions

Always show description

If the 'Always show description' checkbox is ticked, the assignment description is always shown. If the checkbox is not ticked, the assignment description will be hidden until the 'Allow submissions from' date.

If 'Allow submissions from' is disabled, then this setting has no meaning: the assignment description will always be visible to students.

Submission types

Here you can decide how you wish students to submit their work to you.

Note that if Submission comments are enabled in Administration>Plugins>Activity modules>Assignment>Submission plugins then students will be able to add a note to their teacher on submitting work. If Blind marking is enabled, student comments display as from "Participant 01 etc" to avoid revealing identities. These comments will appear in the grading table in the Submission comments column.

Online text

Learners can type their response directly in Moodle using the text editor.

Text typed into the Atto text editor is automatically saved at regular intervals. See Text editor for more information.

It's possible to set a word limit on an online text assignment. Students get a warning if they try to exceed the word limit:

Note: Numbers (such as in addresses) are counted as words; structures such as I'm where an apostrophe replaces a part of a word are only counted as one word.

File submissions

Learners can upload and edit one or more files of any type the teacher can open.

If the student uploads a pdf file, the teacher can annotate it within the browser, and on saving, the annotated file is made available to the student. See section 5.4.1 Annotating pdfs in Using Assignment .

Note: This requires Ghostscript to be enabled on the server. This can be checked in Administration>Site administration>Plugins>Activity modules>Assignments>Feedback plugins>Annotate pdf .

Maximum number of uploaded files

Here you can decide the maximum number of files which may be uploaded by each learner. (It might be helpful to display the number in the assignment description.)

Maximum submission size

This setting specifies the maximum size per file of each of the files that the students can upload as part of their submission. This maximum upload size may only be equal to or less than the course limit (which in turn may only be equal to or less than the site limit). The maximum size of each file is displayed to students at the point where they upload files.

Feedback types

(This setting is collapsed by default)

Feedback comments

Setting this to yes means that markers can leave feedback comments for each submission. It enables the Feedback Comments column in the grading table.(To access the grading table, click on the assignment activity and then View/Grade all Submissions ). Feedback comments are also accessible by clicking on the green tick in the grade column on the grading table.

Offline grading worksheet

If set to yes, the teacher will have a link to download the grading list as a spreadsheet. They will then be able to enter grades and feedback comments offline:

When the teacher has completed their grading offline, they can then upload the spreadsheet, confirm the changes and the grades and comments will be transferred over into Moodle's gradebook:

See also Offline grading worksheet blog post by Gavin Henrick.

Feedback files

This allows markers to upload files with feedback when marking. These files may be the marked up student assignments, documents with comments, a completed marking guide, or spoken audio feedback. It enables the Feedback Files column in the grading table. (To access the grading table click on the assignment activity and then View/Grade all Submissions )To upload feedback files, click on the green tick in the grade column on the grading table and then upload either with drag and drop or using the File picker .

Feedback is displayed to students on the assignment submission page.

Uploading multiple feedback files

It is also possible to upload multiple feedback files as a zip, from the dropdown above the grading list:

• Download the students' assignments using the "Download all submissions" link from the same dropdown menu;
• Extract the folder offline and add your comments to the student's submissions.Keep the names the same.
• Select the students' submissions and zip them into a new folder. Important: Don't just edit them inside their original folder and re-zip this; it will not work. The folder name does not matter as long as the feedback files have the same names as before.
• Upload this newly zipped folder.
• You will be presented with a confirmation screen displaying your feedback files.

Note: If you zip files on a Mac, you may get a folder included in the zip called _MACOSX_ which needs to be removed otherwise moodle will not recognise the changes in the files.

Comment inline

If set to Yes, a teacher can comment directly on the text which a student has submitted as an online text type assignment.

Submission settings

Require students click submit button.

Students can upload draft versions of the assignment until such time as they are ready to submit.Once they click the submit button they indicate to the teacher that they have finished working on the assignment. In earlier versions of Moodle this was called "Send for marking" .)

They can't then longer edit their submission. If they need to change it, they must ask the teacher who can revert the assignment to draft status.

To revert to the draft stage, click on the assignment activity and then View/Grade all Submissions. Locate the student and click the action icon in the Edit column. Select Revert the submission to draft.

If this setting is No, then students do not have to to click a submit button and are able to make changes to uploaded files at any time.

If this setting is No but the teacher wishes to grade students work, then you can stop students from making further changes by using Prevent submission changes. Prevent submission changes can also be used in cases where students have neglected to click the Submit button and grading has commenced. To prevent submission changes, click on the assignment activity, then click on the View/Grade all submissions button. On the grading table, locate the student and click the action icon in the Edit column. Select Prevent submission changes.

To do either of these with a number of students, use the With selected menu at the bottom of the grading table.

Require that students accept the Submission statement

An administrator can define a "Submission statement", ie, a statement where students promise the work is their own and which they must agree to before submitting their work. This may be done via Settings>Site administration>Plugins>Activity modules>Assignment.

If preferred, the available default statement which may be used instead: This assignment is my own work, except where I have acknowledged the use of the works of other people

If the administrator has given teachers the option of using a submission statement or not, then it will be available in the assignment settings screen. The section #Submission_Statement explains how an administrator can set this up.

When this setting is enabled, students will have to check a button before they can submit their assignment:

If the administrator has forced the statement throughout the site, a teacher will not have this option in the settings but a student will see the statement when accessing their assignment.

Attempts reopened

This setting allows the teacher to decide how submissions are reopened. The default is "Never", in that students may only submit once. However, a teacher can set this to "Manually" and reopen it themselves for the student to resubmit, or to "Automatically until pass". The student must then keep trying and resubmitting until they get a pass grade. Passing grades are set in the Gradebook. (Note that for this you need to set the assignment so that students have to click 'submit for marking'. If not, then, unless you manually lock a student's assignment, then they can continue to edit it for as long as they like.)

Maximum attempts

If a student is allowed to resubmit, this setting will determine how many times they can resubmit before they are no longer allowed to do so. (For example, if a student has to keep trying until they get a pass grade, the teacher might decide that ten attempts is enough even though they have not yet passed!)

Groups submission settings

Students submit in groups.

If this box is ticked, then students are able to collaborate on an assignment. This might involve for example, working in the same online text area, or one student uploading an MS Powerpoint which another student downloads, improves and re-uploads to the common assignment area.

When grading, the teacher may choose to give a common grade and feedback to all students in the group or to give individual grades and feedback to each member.

Require group to make submission

New in 2.9: By default, if a student is not in a group they can still submit an assignment. However, this setting may be changed in Site administration > Plugins >Assignment > Assignment settings so that if student is not in any group, or no groups have been made, then Moodle will display a message You're not a member of any group; please contact your teacher , and the student will not be able to submit the assignment.

Require all group members submit

This setting will only appear if the teacher has ticked the "Require students click submit button" earlier. The assignment will not be classed as "submitted" until all members of the group have made a contribution. When one student has submitted, the other members of the group will be able to see who still has to submit.

Grouping for student groups

If a particular grouping is selected here, then the gradebook will display any other groups and non-grouped students in the "default group", while naming the group(s) that are in the chosen grouping. If "none" is selected, then the gradebook will display the names of all groups and put any non-grouped students in the "default group". See this forum post on grouping for student groups for examples of how this might be used.

Notifications

Notify graders about submissions.

Teachers will receive a message (of a type they choose) whenever a student submits an assignment. Please note if you are using the assignment in Groups Mode (eg Separate or Visible Groups), the teacher will need to be a member of the group in order to receive the submission notification.

Notify graders about late submission

Teachers will receive a message (of a type they choose)whenever a student submits a late assignment. Please note if you are using the assignment in Groups Mode (eg Separate or Visible Groups), the teacher will need to be a member of the group in order to receive the submission notification.

• Select Points or Scale from the dropdown. If you will not be giving a grade for the assignment, choose No Grade.
• Then select your points or chosen scale.

Grading method

There are 3 options:

• Simple direct grading (entering a grade or scale item)
• Marking guide

Grade Category

Any custom Grade Categories that have been created within your site or course will be listed here and will be available for selection. Select the required Grade Category to add this assignment as a Grade item within this Category.

Grade to pass

Here you can set a passing grade for the assignment. This may be connected with Activity completion and Conditional activities such that a student will not be able to access a follow up activity until they have passed this assignment.

Blind marking

Note that in the US, this is known as 'blind grading'.

If this setting is enabled, then a teacher will not see the names of students who have submitted their assignments. Instead, they will see randomly generated Participant numbers. (The student view of the assignment does not change.) This is also the case if student comments have been enabled. Once they have graded the assignment, it is however possible for teachers to see who submitted what by clicking on "Reveal student identities" in the Assignment settings.

Returning Marks to Students

Because of the nature of blind marking, the students cannot see the final grade until all of the students' names have been revealed. If you are grading an assignment using an advanced grading method such as a rubric, the rubric will also be hidden from students' view until the names are revealed. To reveal student names after you are finished grading, look under Assignment Settings > Reveal Student Names. Feedback comments will appear whether or not student names are hidden or revealed.

Note: Because of this, the level of anonymity might not suit the privacy requirements of your establishment. See this tracker entry MDL-35390 - "Blind Marking is not so blind".

For more details on this feature, see this Youtube video Blind marking in 2.4 .

Users with the capability mod/assign:viewblinddetails can view student identities and participant numbers (in Moodle 2.9.5 onwards).

Use marking workflow

When set to Yes, teachers will be able to specify the stage they are at in their grading of individual assignments (as in the screenshot below)

Note that in the US this is known as 'grading workflow'.

One advantage of using marking workflow is that the grades can be hidden from students until they are set to 'Released'. The actual list of steps are:

• Not marked (the marker has not yet started)
• In marking (the marker has started but not yet finished)
• Marking completed (the marker has finished but might need to go back for checking/corrections)
• In review (the marking is now with the teacher in charge for quality checking)
• Ready for release (the teacher in charge is satisfied with the marking but wait before giving students access to the marking)
• Released (the student can access the grades/feedback)

Example use cases

One marker, Marker, wants to release all grades at the same time

• Marker enables "Use marking workflow"
• Marker marks each submission and transitions the grading to "Marking completed" as each submission is graded.
• Marker then uses the batch operations to transition all grades to "Released" at the same time.

Multiple markers,

Use marking allocation

Note that in the US, this is known as 'grading allocation'.

If marking workflow (see above) is set to Yes, it is possible to enable marking allocation. This means that teachers can be selected to grade or review the submitted work of specific students. Colleagues can monitor progress through the displayed marking workflow states:

Common module settings

See Common module settings

Restrict access settings

The restrict access area becomes visible in Moodle activities and resource settings if Conditional Activities have been enabled.

Locally assigned roles

In Administration > Assignment administration > Locally assigned roles selected users can be given additional roles in the activity. See the Using Moodle Custom role for 'Course Monitor' forum discussion for an example.

Assignment capabilities

• Export own submission
• Grade assignment
• Submit assignment
• View assignment

Role permissions for the activity can be changed in Settings > Assignment administration > Permissions .

Site administration settings

The following configuration options are available for an administrator under Administration > Site administration > Plugins > Activity modules > Assignment .

Feedback plugin

The comments that are pushed to the gradebook from the assignment are limited to a single text only comment. An Administrator can specify which of the feedback plugins will be push comments to the gradebook. On a standard Moodle install the choices are "Feedback comments" (default) or "Feedback file" but there may be additional options if your Moodle install contains additional feedback plugins.

Show recent submissions

This option allows everyone to see notifications of submissions in Recent activity reports and the Recent Activity Block, within a course context. Note that the default for this option is No which means students will not be able to see when classmates have submitted or updated any Assignments.

Send submission receipt to students

This switch will enable submission receipts for students. Students will receive a notification every time they successfully submit an assignment.

Submission Statement

An administrator can enter text in the box here which will appear when students are about to submit their assignment.

If it is left as the default "No", then teachers will have the choice within their own assignments to force this or not.

The submission statement may be shown in different languages. See Multi-language content filter for how to do this.

Default assignment settings

The administrator can specify here the default assignment settings which may be set as 'Advanced' (i.e. they will appear when clicking 'Show more') or 'Locked' (ie the teacher cannot change them.)

The following configuration options are available for an administrator under Administration > Site administration > Plugins > Assignment .

Submission plugins

Manage assignment submission plugins.

Here you can change the order, check the settings or uninstall a particular submission plugin.

Enabled by default If set, this submission method will be enabled by default for all new assignments.

Maximum submission size An Administrator can specify the maximum size of any individual file uploaded within the assignment module across all courses on the site. This limit may be equal to or less than course file upload limit.

Online text submissions

Submission comments.

If Submission comments are enabled in Site administration>Plugins>Activity modules>Assignment>Submission plugins AND comments enabled globally in Site Administration > Advanced features ) then students will be able to send a message to their teacher when submitting their assignment. If either of those settings is disabled, then the submission comments link will not appear.

Feedback plugins

Manage assignment feedback plugins.

Here you can change the order, check the settings or uninstall a particular feedback plugin.

Annotate pdf

Here you can upload stamps for teachers to use when annotating student pdfs. You can also check the ghostscript path:

If the default stamps are deleted by accident, they can be found in mod/assign/feedback/editpdf/pix and re-uploaded.

File feedback

Enabled by default If set, this will be enabled by default for all new assignments

Synergy Learning blog post: Assignment resubmissions

Batch Export/Import of Assignment Submissions in Moodle

Within Moodle it is possible to export all submissions for a particular assignment, potentially facilitating offline grading. You might want to do this in order to use programs such as Acrobat or Word to read, comment on, or otherwise markup files to provide students feedback. These files then can be uploaded back into Moodle, which also can be done in bulk.

Batch export/download assignment submissions

• Click the assignment for which you wish to download submissions.
• Click the [View all submissions] button.
• At the bottom of the page, ensure Download submissions in folders is unchecked.
• Select Download all  submissions  option from the “Grading action” drop-down menu.
• This will download a zip file, which will include files with students’ names appended to each file name.
• At the bottom of the page, ensure Download submissions in folders is checked. This will create a folder named for each student containing whatever file(s) the student submitted.
• Near the top of page you, select  Download all  submissions  option from the “Grading action” drop-down menu.
• This will download a zip file.

Batch import/upload feedback files

After downloading submissions as described above and providing comments or other annotation, you may want to upload them back in order to provide students feedback.  Please note, in order to enable this capability, your assignment needs to be configured to accept feedback files.  To do this:

• Select the “Edit Mode”  toggle in the upper right to begin editing the course site.
• Find the assignment for which you want to enable feedback files and click “…” to the right, and then select Edit settings .
• Under the Feedback types section and open it if it’s not expanded.
• Ensure  Feedback files is checked.
• Click the  [Save and return to course] button.

Upload feedback files to new assignment activity

Note also that you can set this option when you initially create a new Assignment activity.

Assuming the following is true, you can upload feedback files back to the assignment:

• your assignment is configured to accept feedback files
• you have downloaded submissions as described above and commented/annotated them

To upload feedback files:

• Create a zip file of the feedback files on your computer, making sure to leave the filenames exactly as they came from Moodle when you downloaded them.
• Click the assignment to which you want to upload feedback files.
• Click the  [View all submissions]  button.
• Near the top of page you, select Upload multiple feedback files in a zip  option from the “Grading action” drop-down menu.
• A new screen will appear and you will be asked to select the zip file containing the feedback files.  Once you upload them, Moodle will confirm and the feedback files will be available for students to view.

Submitting to a Moodle Assignment

• Navigate to your class within Moodle.

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• All done? Select the Save changes button to finish your upload.

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