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Moodle Tutorials: Creating Assignments

• Linking Your Course to Moodle
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Creating Assignments

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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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Create moodle assignment activity, availability, submission types, feedback types and submission settings (group), group assignment submission settings, notifications, common module settings & save, restrict access and activity completion settings.

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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.

Settings not enabled

• 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.
• Moodle guidance for students
• 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.

Apply the settings

• 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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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. 

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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Create a grouping of student groups, enable group submission, configure group submission options, grade student submissions.

In Moodle you can create assignments where students work in groups and each group makes an assignment submission. For example, students in a group can submit one file that represents their joint work. Any group member can download, modify, and re-upload a file, or edit a text entry.

Note: Group submission is distinct from Common module settings . Common module settings determine which groups can view and submit to a particular activity (see Assign an Activity to a Group or Grouping in Moodle ). 

Before configuring a group-based assignment activity, you must first create Groups for your students and put those groups in a specific Grouping :

• Create Groups of students. For details, see Create & Modify Groups in Moodle .
• Create a Grouping to contain your student Groups. For details, see Create Groupings in Moodle .
• On your course page, click  Turn editing on (top right).
• Add a new assignment activity, or Edit settings for an existing Assignment .  The New/Update Assignment page will open.
• Configure the General , Availability , Assignment type , etc., for the assignment.
• Click Group submission settings to view the Group submission options, and f rom the Students submit in groups drop-down menu, select Yes.
• (Optional) Require all group members submit (See Configure Group Submissions , below).
• From the Grouping for student groups drop-down menu, select the Grouping you created for your student groups.
• Under Common module settings , from the Group mode drop-down menu, select Separate groups or Visible groups , and fr om the Grouping drop-down menu, select the Grouping used in the previous step. Note : This step is especially important if you are assigning different Assignment activities to different groups in your course. But even if everyone in the course is assigned the same activity, choosing Common Module settings here will make grading the assignment easier (see Grade Student Submissions , below).
• Scroll to the bottom of the page and click  Save and return to course.

The following additional options in the assignment's settings allow you to configure the process by which students submit their group work:

• In Submission settings ,  Require students click submit button:  (Default is No.) If set to Yes , students in the group must click a "Submit" button to formally indicate that their work is ready for grading, after which they can no longer modify their submission. The default (No) accepts their submission as soon as anyone submits it. They can change their submission at any time.
• In Group submission settings,  Require all group members submit:  (Default is No.) This option is enabled only when Require students click submit button is set to Yes . The default setting (No) allows any member of the group to submit on behalf of the group. Changing this to  Yes means that all students in the group must click the "Submit" button to indicate that they all have signed off on the submission.
• On your course page, click the link to the assignment activity you want to grade. The Assignment page will open, showing the Grading summary and Submission status .
• Click  View/grade all submissions . The Assignment submissions page will open.
• From the Separate groups or Visible groups drop-down menu, select a Group to grade. The page will reload to show only the students from that Group . Note : The groups drop-down will not appear unless you have completed step 7, above (Common module settings).

• Provide a grade and feedback comments as you would normally. See Grade Assignments in Moodle for details.
• If you would like your grade and feedback to only be provided for an individual student, under Group submission settings , set the  Apply grades and feedback to entire group setting to  No . If set to Yes , the same grade and feedback will to be applied to all students in the group.
• Scroll down to the bottom and click  Save changes.

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Adding Turnitin to a Moodle Assignment

Turnitin enables seamless integration with Moodle . Once your administrator has configured Turnitin for your organization, you can use Turnitin as a part of your normal Moodle workflow using Moodle assignments.

Your administrator can set defaults that will apply to all assignments you create. One option they have is to automatically have Turnitin active.

• If you've never created a Moodle assignment before, navigate to a course and select the Turn editing on button . Select the + Add an activity or resource link that appears.
• From the Activities list , choose Assignment .

• Set dates for the Allow Submissions From and Due Date settings. These dates act as the Start date and Due date for Turnitin too.

• The first setting, Enable Turnitin, may already be enabled. Your administrator will determine its initial state when first creating the integration. If you want to use Turnitin with the assignment make sure it is ticked.
• (Optional) There are several other options within the Turnitin Integrity Plugin's settings that you can customize for each assignment. The defaults are set by your administrator. Feel free to change any that you need to!

Generate Similarity Reports

Immediately : The similarity report will be generated as soon as a file is uploaded. Immediately and regenerate on due date : A similarity report will be generated after a file is uploaded and then we will regenerate it on the due date. This is useful when looking for collusion within a group. Due date : Files will only receive a similarity report on the due date of the assignment all files will be checked against each other for collusion.

Submission Indexing

Index all submissions - This option will add files automatically to your organization's private repository. This makes them available to be matched against in similarity reports by other people within your organization.

Student Access

Allow students to view Similarity Reports - This setting determines if students are able to see similarity reports that are generated.

Exclude from Similarity Reports

Bibliography and Quotes - Allows you to automatically exclude bibliographies and quotes from the similarity reports. Want to know more? Check out the guide .

Process draft submissions

Process draft submissions - Use draft submissions? This setting will allow similarity reports to be generated for each draft of a submission.

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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.
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Instructors can now provide detailed feedback on assignment submissions without downloading them by using the Annotate PDF tool. This feature allows instructors to leave digital comments on students' work.

Before you start , you will need access to the following:

• An Instructor of record , Other editing teacher , or Non-editing teacher role in a Bryn Mawr Moodle course

Enable annotate PDF for an assignment

• Click the  Edit mode  toggle   button   in your course (if it isn't already on).
• Click +Add an activity or resource in the course section where you wish for your assignment to appear.
• From the list of activities, select Assignment.
• Check the File Submissions  box (required).
• Set Maximum number of uploaded files to 1 (recommended).
• Type .pdf in the Accepted file types box (recommended).

• Under Feedback Types , check Feedback Comments and Annotate PDF.

• Adjust the remaining settings as needed, then click   Save and Display  or  Save and return to course.

To enable this feature on an existing Assignment, click the Assignment name and go to the Settings page. From there, proceed through steps #4-7.

Mark with annotate PDF

• Open the assignment in your Moodle course page for which Annotate PDF has been enabled.
• On the Assignment  page, click Grade .

Note:  Instructors can highlight, write, type, add stamps, and post notes in a PDF documents submitted by students when Annotate PDF is enabled. Instructors can do this on a computer, iPad, or other tablet.

• Enter the Grade and any overall Feedback Comments . A part of your written feedback, you can add files, links, short audio (microphone button), or video clips (camera button) .

• Attach any files you want to add to your comments through the Feedback files  menu.

• Click Save Changes to save as you go or Save and Show Next when you are finished with a submission and are ready to proceed to the next one.
• To download a copy of any student's annotated submission, return to the Assignment  page and find the Annotate PDF  column. Pick the PDF you want to download and click its title. The PDF will download to your computer. 

Ensure students submit good PDF's

The Annotate PDF feature only works with PDF files. If students submit files in other formats, Moodle will try to turn them into PDF's, but these conversions are unreliable. For best results, have your students save their assignments as PDF's before submission. You can also force students to submit assignments as PDF's as part of the assignment settings.

Note:  Some   students may not know how to save, export, or print files as PDF's. Add a link to Save a File as a PDF to your Moodle course page or assignment instructions to help.

If your students need to submit handwritten work, make them aware of the following:

• On-campus students can scan documents as PDF's using the Canon multifunction copiers. 
• Free smartphone scanning apps allow students to create multi-page PDF documents using the phone’s camera. See  Office Lens: Scan papers or documents with your smartphone  for more information.

If you have any additional questions or problems, don't hesitate to reach out to the Help Desk !

Phone: 610-526-7440 | Library and Help Desk hours Email: [email protected] |  Service catalog Location: Canaday Library 1st floor

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