Creating a Moodle Assignment · Web view2020-03-13 · This guide has been created to help you to use Moodle so that your students can submit their assessments via the platform,

Assessment and Feedback guides – Moodle assignments

Guide created by Dr Amanda Pate (Academic & Digital Development team) 12.03.20

Using Moodle for Assessment Submissions and for MarkingThis guide has been created to help you to use Moodle so that your students can submit their assessments via the platform, as well as to support you in how to conduct marking and provide feedback online. Feedback can be provided in a range of ways via Moodle and this will be referred to here, other guides that can help you when it comes to marking and giving feedback in Moodle are also identified here.

Using Moodle for Assessment Submissions and for Marking...................................................1

Creating a Moodle Assignment................................................................................................1

How to Set Up an Assignment..............................................................................................2

Guidance on Specific Settings for Adding a New Assignment in Moodle.............................4

Using Marking Workflow..........................................................................................................7

Examples.............................................................................................................................. 8

Marking in Moodle Assignments............................................................................................10

Filtering Submissions..........................................................................................................10

Downloading Submissions and Grading Offline..................................................................11

Granting Assessment Extensions in Moodle.......................................................................12

Further Information............................................................................................................... 12

Creating a Moodle AssignmentMoodle Assignment is an activity that allows students to submit electronic copies of their assignments to Moodle, which accepts any type of digital file. Students can submit a wide range of text files this way, examples of the numerous text files that Moodle accepts include:

.docx .pptx .csv .xlsx PDF

Moodle Assignment also accepts images, video and audio files, examples include:

.mov .mp4 .wav .mp3

.m4a .jpeg .jpg .png

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Once these are submitted you can then grade the work as percentages or as custom scales. Students may also submit work as individuals or in groups (separate guidance on creating groups is available in the guide ‘Communicating to Large Groups of Students Using Moodle’.

How to Set Up an Assignment

In order to set up an Assignment in Moodle, you should already have editing permissions. In order to do this, turn on editing via the cog in the right-hand navigation bar.

Now, go to the ‘Add an activity or resource’ link at the bottom right-hand of the section in Moodle where you want to add the relevant Assignment Submission link.

Once this opens up, you will see that a box appears that lists the Activities and Resources that can be added to Moodle. They are ordered alphabetically.

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You will see that the ‘Assignment’ button is listed at the top, click on the button and then click on the ‘Add’ blue button.

A new page will open up that features a range of sections that will help you to tailor your assessment submission settings exactly to your requirements. These can include: availability times; how you want your students to submit their work (and when); and how you plan to mark the assessments and give them feedback. You can also set the Assignment task up here so that it requests that your students specifically verify that they are submitting their own work. You may also want to prevent them changing their submission once it has been uploaded or have them submit in a group. All of these (and more) and possible with Moodle Assignments.

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You can click on the grey arrows for the range of settings to open up or collapse.

Guidance on Specific Settings for Adding a New Assignment in Moodle

We will now take a look at these specific settings in the order that they appear in the list.

GeneralIn the ‘General’ section (see below), give the Assignment activity a meaningful name and in the description explain what the students must submit. You must tick the ‘Display description on course page’ box if you want the description information to show up for your students on the course page, otherwise they will not see the description unless they specifically click on the link. You can also upload a helpful or exemplar document if you wish using the ‘Additional files’ area.

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AvailabilityAllow submissions from

This stops students from submitting before the ‘shown’ date but it does not hide the assignment and any included instructions or materials.

Due date

Submissions are still allowed after this date but will be marked as late. You may disable it by unticking the checkbox. Assignments without a due date will appear on the dashboard with 'No Due Date' displayed.

Cut-off date

After this date, students will not be able to submit and the submit button will disappear.

Remind me to grade by..

A date needs to be entered here in order for the assignment to display on the Course’s overview block and in the Calendar on Moodle. It will display when at least one student has submitted.

Submission Types

Here you can decide how you want your students to submit their work to you and you may set the files types – you can leave this open. There is also a maximum upload size mentioned here – this refers to each file a student uploads. However, it cannot be larger than the limit in the Course settings. You can also set the maximum number of files that your students can submit, this may just be one but with some assessments this can require several different types of file and so you should amend this accordingly.

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Feedback TypesFeedback comments

With this enabled, markers can leave comments for each submission (these appear on the assignment grading screen.)

Offline Grading Worksheet

You may find this useful if you wish to download the grading list and edit it in a program such as MS Excel.

Feedback files

This allows markers to upload feedback files that you have completed during the marking process, for example you may wish to do this in the form of a MS Word document. These files may be copies of the marked student assignments, feedback documents with comments or a completed marking guide. It is worth noting also that you can upload multiple feedback files.

There is also guidance about marking using Feedback Studio and Turnitin available if you prefer to mark electronically.

Comment inline

This is a useful tool that allows you to comment directly on an 'online text' type submission.

Submission SettingsRequire students click submit button

If this is set to 'No' then this allows your students to make changes to their submission at any time. However, if you want students to stop changing work once you are ready to grade, click 'View/Grade all submissions'; locate the student and from the ‘Edit’ column, click the ‘action’ icon and select 'Prevent submission changes.' If it is set to 'Yes' then students can upload draft versions of the assignment until such a time as they are ready to submit. Clicking the submit button tells you that the students have finished drafting and want the work to be graded. They can no longer edit it and must ask you to revert to draft status if they need to change it again. To do that, click 'View/Grade all submissions’ and locate the student and from the ‘Edit’ column, click the ‘action’ icon and select 'Revert the submission to draft'.

Require that students accept the submission statement

This should be set to ‘Yes’ if students need to accept the Senate Office’s Declaration of Originality. This will then appear automatically when students are submitting their assignments, you do not need to do anything else.

Attempts reopened

If 'require students to click submit' is enabled, then students may only submit their assessment here once. You can change this here to 'Manually' and reopen it for students to resubmit, or you can change it to 'Automatically until pass', for the students to keep resubmitting until they get a pass grade.

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Maximum attempts

Here you can decide how many attempts to allow if students can resubmit. If a student has to keep trying until they get a Pass grade, you might decide to limit the attempts even though they have not yet passed. Please check your assessment regulations to guide you on this.

Group submission settings

These settings allow students to collaborate on a single assignment, for example working in the same online area or uploading, editing and reuploading an MS PowerPoint in the common assignment area.

When grading, you 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. It is worth noting that if you are using ‘group mode’ then the course teaching team need to be members of the group in order to receive submission and late submission notifications.

Notifications

These settings enable staff who are grading the assessments to be notified when: submissions are made by students; when late submissions are made; as well as when students are notified that their feedback has been posted.

Turnitin

For information on setting up Turnitin for your assessments, please see the ‘Creating an Assignment in Moodle Using Turnitin’ guide.

GradeBlind Marking

Sometimes called ‘anonymous marking’, this setting prevents you as the marker from seeing students' names on submissions. Instead you will see randomly generated ‘Participant numbers’. It is worth nothing that the student view of the assignment does not change. Because of the nature of anonymous marking, the students cannot see the final grade until all of the students' names have been revealed.

Hide Grader Identity from Students

If enabled, this setting means that the identity of the marker will not be shown to the students.

Using Marking WorkflowYou can enable the ‘Marking Workflow’ if you need to keep grades and feedback hidden until you are ready to release them, for example for moderation purposes. By default, the feedback and grades will display to each student as you save them.

The ‘Marking Workflow’ is also a useful tool, as it states where you (and your colleagues involved in marking this assessment) are up to and will also help when it comes to coordinating multiple markers.

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One advantage of using ‘marking workflow’ is that the grades can be hidden from students until they are set to 'Released'. The phases are as follows:

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 lecturers for quality assurance/moderation) Ready for release (lecturers are satisfied with the marking but wait before giving

students access to the marking) Released (the student can access the grades/feedback).

Examples

Here are some examples of scenarios relating to using Marking Workflow that you may find helpful.

If one marker wants to release all of the grades at the same time, then the process is:

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.

If there are multiple markers, then the process is as follows:

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.

Using Marking AllocationIf ‘Marking Workflow’ is set to ‘Yes’ then it is possible to enable the marking allocation feature. This means that staff can be allocated to grade or review the submitted work of specific students. Colleagues can also monitor marking progress using the marking workflow feature.

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For further information on setting up grading, please refer to the ‘Grade’ section of the Creating an Assignment in Moodle Using Turnitin’ guide and the ‘Marking in Feedback Studio’ guide.

Common Module SettingsThis setting enables you to make the assessment link visible (or not) on the course page. This can be useful when you are setting up your Assignment link. It is also for assigning a task to groups (if relevant – this must be set up at course level in order to function).

Restrict AccessThis setting allows you to set a range of restrictions relevant to your assessment. For example, you may use it for restricting access by date, grade or user profile.

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Marking in Moodle AssignmentsThere are a number of ways to approach marking in Moodle. As mentioned, there are helpful guides on using Feedback Studio and also on using Turnitin in Moodle in order to mark your assessments and provide feedback online. This section will cover how to filter the submissions by your students after the assessment deadline, as well as how to download submissions and grade offline.

Filtering Submissions

Once your students have submitted their work, you can check the number of submissions and non-submissions using this useful feature. You can also use this feature to check the status of marking and identify any students that may have been granted an extension. It takes the form of a dropdown menu accessed from the 'Options' section.

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Downloading Submissions and Grading Offline

If you don't have an internet connection or prefer to grade outside Moodle, you can do so using the Assignments setting (this includes anonymous submissions).

You can do this by downloading a zip file that contains all of the assignment submissions by selecting ‘Download all submissions’ from the 'Grading actions' menu at the top of the grading table, or in the settings menu.

File submissions will be downloaded in the format uploaded by the student. Online text submissions will be downloaded as HTML files. Each file in the zip will be named with the student first and last name followed by a unique identifier (not the user ID number).

If each submission is more than a single file, then submissions may be downloaded in folders by ticking the option 'Download submissions in folders' (below the grading table). Each submission is put in a separate folder, with the folder structure kept for any subfolders, and files are not renamed. Each folder will be named with the student first and last name followed by a unique identifier (not the user ID number).

You can also download selected assignment submissions (rather than all of them) by selecting the ones you want and then choosing 'With selected....Download selected submissions'.

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Granting Assessment Extensions in Moodle

Extensions can be granted in Moodle by individual student by clicking on the ‘Grade’ column and going to the student’s name and clicking the blue ‘Grade’ button and clicking ‘Grant Extension, which will open up another page where you can alter the date for the relevant student. This action also enables you to: update a grade, remove a submission, or revert it to draft status.

Further InformationTo find out more about creating Moodle assignment submissions and marking them go to:

https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/moodle/guides/assignmentsettingup/ https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/moodle/guides/assignmentgradingonline/ https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/moodle/guides/

assignmentdownloadsubmissionsandgradeoffline/

Downloadable guides related to these hyperlinks are also available:

https://www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_383357_smxx.pdf https://www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_383354_smxx.pdf https://www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_383351_smxx.pdf

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https://www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_383351_smxx.pdf



https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/moodle/guides/assignmentgradingonline/

https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/moodle/guides/assignmentsettingup/

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