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MyCity Guide: Creating an Assignment

Creating an AssignmentThe Assignment activity (sometimes referred to as a Dropbox) in Mycity allows you to communicate tasks, collect work, check for plagiarism, and provide grades and feedback. Students can submit file formats such as word processing, spreadsheets, PDF’s, images, audio and video clips, however it is recommended not to accept open office files. These can be converted to the file types stated.

Setting up an Assignment1. Login to Mycity, find your course page2. Turn Editing on, scroll down to the topic where you

want to place the Assignment 3. Click to Add an Activity, select Assignment from the

menu, the Assignment settings page opens

There are 11 setting sections on the Assignment Settings page, the instructions below are only a guide, as settings can be changed to suit individual requirements. By default only the first 3 sections are in view when you first set up the assignment, you can use the Expand all button (shown below) to expand all the sections, or you can click the blue headings to expand/close each section.

If you are not sure, click the help button for an explanation

General4. Name box - Add text to describe

the activity, the text typed will appear on the Mycity page as a link

5. Description Box - add information/ instructions for students, if you tick the Display description on course page box,

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the information typed will appear on the Mycity course page with the link



Availability6. Allow submissions from: first

date when the students can start to submit assignments

7. Due date: last date of submission, when the assignment is due

8. Cut-off Date: you can use the Cut-off date to prevent submissions after a certain date, this allows students to upload past the due date, submission will appear marked as late

9. Allow show description: If ticked, the assignment activity descriptions (i.e. dates and times set) are always visible to students, if not ticked the assignment description will be hidden until the Allow submission from date

Submission types10.Submission Types:

File submission - If enabled, students are able to upload one or more files as their submission

Mahara Portfolio - If enabled, students can integrate with their MyPortfolio

Online text* - If enabled, students are able to type rich text directly into an editor field for their submission

11.Maximum number of uploaded files: select as required, maximum of 20 files allowed, if you want students to resubmit several times increase the number of upload files allowed, this will save you re-setting individual student accounts if a single upload is set



12.Maximum submission size: select as required Maximum upload 100MB, 20MB should be enough for any word type document

13.Mahara site: allows you to select a Mahara site, however this setting only links to the colleges MyPortfolio, and is only available if the Mahara portfolio is ticked/selected under Submission type

14.Word limit: If Online text* is selected you can set the word limit that each student can submit, if students go beyond the word limit they get a red warning message

Feedback types15.Feedback Types:

Feedback comments worksheet - If enabled, you will be able to leave feedback comments for each submission

Feedback files - If enabled, you will be able to upload files with feedback, when marking the assignment

Offline Grading - If enabled, you are able to download/upload a worksheet with student grades when marking the assignments

16.Comment inline - If Yes, the submission text will be copied into the feedback comment field during grading, making it easier to comment inline (straight on to the students submission) using a different colour or edit the original text. Select as required

Submission Settings17.Require students click

submit button: if Yes, this allows the student to keep a draft submission on the system until the Submit



button is clicked, the submission is then regarded as the final submission

18.Require that students accept the submission statement: Set to Yes, Requires the students to accept the submission statement for all submissions to this assignment, accepting that the work submitting is their own

19.Attempts reopened: Determines how student submission attempts are reopened. There are 3 available options: Never – cannot be reopened, Manually – re-opened by Tutor Automatically – re-opened until pass

20.Maximum attempts: This is disabled unless the Attempts reopened is selected to Manually or Automatically until pass, select as required

Group Submission SettingsYou will only be able to use these settings if you have previously set up groups and groupings for your course (In the help section of Mycity your can find training pack about groups and groupings)

21.This is a Team Project. Only accept one file from the entire: If set to Yes, students will be divided into groups based on the default set of groups or a custom grouping

22.Require all group members: If set to Yes, all members of the student group must click the submit button for this assignment before the group submission will be considered as submitted

23.Grouping for student groups: Select the student group required from the drop down menu



Notifications 24.Notifying Graders about

submissions: If set to Yes, tutor will receive a message when a student submits an assignment

25.Notifying Graders about late submissions: If set to Yes, tutor will receive a message when students submit late assignments

Default setting for “Notify students”: If set to Yes, sets the default value for the "Notify students" checkbox on the grading form



Turnitin plagiarism plugin settings 26.Launch Peermark Manager: PeerMark

assignments allow students to read, review, and score/evaluate each other’s assignment submission. When complete papers can be distributed so that all the students are able to read the comments left on their work. The PeerMark assignment may be anonymous or attributed, this is done through the PeerMark Manager settings

27.Launch QuickMark Manager: this is a marking tool used by tutors to edit or grade papers, pre-set standard editing marks that ensures consistent feedback to students. These are called QuickMark sets, there are a variety of QuickMark Sets for you to choose from, if you say the same things regularly you could build your own comment database. These can be created, shared and used by other tutors in the same course (Note: only tutors who have created quickmark sets can edit the settings)

28.Enable Turnitin: Set to Yes to enable Turnitin as part of your assignment, it checks for plagiarism within student submissions

29.Display Originality Reports to Students: If set to Yes, students can see the originality report generated by Turnitin

30.When should the file be submitted to Turnitin?: this is set by default to Submit file when first uploaded

31.Allow submissions of any file type?: If set to Yes, allows files of any type to be submitted to Turnitn

32.Store Student Papers: If set to Standard Repository student papers submitted will be stored in the Turnitin database



33.Check against stored student papers: If set to Yes, submitted work will be checked against all students papers stored in the Turnitin database

34.Check against the internet: If set to Yes, submitted work will be checked against all internet instances stored on the Turnitin database

35.Check against journals, periodicals and publications: If set to Yes, submitted work will be checked against journals periodicals and publications stored on the Turnitin database

Report Generation Speed: the Turnitin system returns an Originality Report, showing similarity of text of the submission against the search targets. There are 3 options:

Generated Reports Immediately (resubmissions are not allowed) - originality report generated immediately, students cannot resubmit

Generated Reports immediately (resubmissions are allowed until due date) – students can submit as many times as they wish until the due date, only the latest version is available previous versions removed. On the due date the originality report is only available to the tutor and submissions are compared against one another from the same assignment

Generate reports on due date – originality report generated on due date, students can resubmit as many times as needed until due date but do not see their originality report

The Second option Generated Reports immediately (resubmissions are allowed until due date) is recommended, as it allows students to upload draft versions for checking before the final submission date



Note: first submission will take 15 – 30 minutes to return an originality report, any further submissions will take 24 hours, please plan accordingly.

36.Exclude Bibliography: set to Yes, allows you to check if students sources are correct, however factor this in when marking assignments as this will increase the similarity mark

37.Exclude Quoted Material: set to Yes, allows you to check if students sources are correct, however factor this in when marking assignments as this will increase the similarity mark

Remember: these are only guidelines, you may wish to exclude both above in the criteria

38.Exclude Small Matches: can be set to be exclude small matches as defined by a specific number of words or an overall percentage of the submitted work

Attach a rubic to this assignment: Rubics is a powerful tool, which marks entire grade reports for a class, they are pre-defined comments that you can add to a student’s paper. There are rubrics already created in Turnitin and you can also set up your own Rubrics and attach them to an assignment. The Rubric Manager allows you to create weighted, points-based, or qualitative rubrics for offering standardised feedback on student papers. You can score fast by clicking the corresponding Rubrics score and explanation, it auto calculates the grade and attaches it to the Gradebook. A rubric produces a similarity report and directed feedback to how sources have been used, where and what improvements to make, so enhancing the feedback given to students.



There are two choices No Rubic and Rubic Assignment, use the Rubic Manager to control the settings39. Anonymous Marking: Hides students Identity from markers, once anonymous marking has been enabled on an assignment it cannot be disabled.

40. Translated Matching: for multilingual students, enables you to identify potentially plagiarised content that has been translated, Turnitin compares student assignments to their vast database of multilingual content



Grade41. Grade: In these settings you can select the Type of grading to use for the activity. Type, Scale and Maximum points all work together:

Type: Scale or Point: depending on which is chosen gives you access to the Scale or Maximum points options.

If Scale is chosen, you can then choose from the "scale" dropdown menu.

If using Point grading, you can enter the grade required for the activity in the Maximum points box

42.Grading method: Choose the grading method for calculating grades in the given context, select as required

43.Grading Category: This setting controls the category in which this activity's grades are placed in the gradebook

44.Blind Marking: If set to Yes, hides the identity of the student in this activity

45.Using marking workflow: If set to Yes, marks through a series of workflow stages before being released to students. This allows for multiple rounds of marking and allows marks to be released to all students at the same time.

46.Use marking allocation: If set to Yes, along with marking workflow, tutors can be allocated to particular students

Common module settings These settings allow you to give access to groups and groupings, (need to be set previously before setting up the activity)



47.Visible: Show/Hide the activity on the Mycity page to students, set to Show

48.ID number: Adding an ID number/unique name helps you identify the activity for grading purposes

49.Grouping: Allows you to select assigned groups or groupings of students

50.Available for group members only: if the Tick box is selected the activity is only available to those groups within the selected groupings

To cancel a restriction click the cross

51.When finished click the Save and return to course button


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