Contents
• Setting up assignments
• Assignment settings
• Gradebook
• Setting up Grade scales
• Backing up assignments
• Grading and giving feedback
• Examples/Benefits
Overview• The assignment activity module enables a teacher to communicate
tasks, collect work and 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.
Overview
• 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.
College Target
• Student feedback – would like to be able to upload assignments online
• Target in the Development Plan of 80% of assignments to be uploaded via Moodle
Setting up Assignments
3. Select the Assignment activity
1. Turn the editing on
2. Add an activity or resource
4. Click Add
Assignment Settings
5. Give the assignment a name
6. Give the assignment a description. This may give details of what the assignment needs to include and grading criteria, requirements about file types, naming conventions
“Online text”. This does not require students to upload a file instead student type (or cut and paste ) text into the Moodle editor
Set maximum size. This is important when dealing with larger file sizes such as images, audio or video
Set the maximum number of files which students can upload
If enabled students can leave comments on their submission
If enabled you can leave feedback comments for each submission
If enabled you can upload a response file. This could be the assignments with annotated comments
Customise grade scales in the settings to reflect the mark scheme for the assignment
The students will tick a box to acknowledge it is their own work
Students will add their assignment file(s) and save
Student View
Backing up Assignments
It is important to back up all assignments to your own work area as you may want to refer back to past assignments. Click “Download all submissions” and save the zipped folder.
At the end of the year assignments will be deleted from Moodle and cannot be recovered so download assignments to your own work area
Grading and Giving Feedback
• Add a grade or comment only• Add a grade and comment• Upload standard feedback sheet (in Word) as a Response file• Download the submitted work, annotate it with feedback and then re-
upload as a Response file• Customise grade scales in the settings to reflect the mark scheme for the
assignment• Notification emails to students once the assignments have been graded
Select UsersLock submissions – prevent submission changes
Revert the submission to draft – allow a new submission
Unlock submissions – allow submission changes
Grant extension – extend deadline to individual students
Send Feedback files – response file, annotated copy of assignments
Offline grading Worksheet
Add a grade and a comment for each participant. Once you have added them in as below, you can go thought the upload process.
Once you have uploaded the file you are prompted to confirm the changes below.
After you confirm, the assignment and gradebook are updated
Benefits
• Students can easily submit coursework from anywhere including home!
• Save teachers time collecting paper copies – students can now also declare it is their own work online using the new declaration feature
• Keeps a back up of assignments so coursework doesn’t go missing
Benefits
What’s the advantage of the Moodle assignment upload to students emailing the assignment?
• All assignments are together in one place
• Assignments don’t go astray and lost in your email box
• Record keeping is easier – student feedback and grades are together in once place
• Timesaver – can copy/paste some of the same comments to students in their feedback