MOODLE TUTORIAL

HOW TO ADD AN ACTIVITIES OR

RESOURCES

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 TOPIC 1: ADDING AN ASSIGNMENT

STEPS
1) Click on the gear icon then click "Turn editing on" for editing any activity or resources
page.

1-Click
2. Click turn editing on
2) Click "to add an activity or resources.

2) Click to add an activity or resources.

3. Click

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3) Choose an "Assignment menu."

4. Click
5. Click

4) ) Click to add an assignment activity.

Summary:
If you want to edit an existing assignment, click the Edit link to its right and choose
the action you wish to take, eg 'Edit settings'.
Go to the course where you want the assignment; turn on the editing, and in the
section, you want the assignment, click 'Add an activity or resource'.
From the Activity chooser, click the Assignment button and click 'Add'

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 CONFIGURATION OPTIONS

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

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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 about what they have to do. Click
"Show editing tools" to display the rich text editor 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 webpage

Display description on the course page

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

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Additional files
Here you can add files which may be of help to the students as they do their assignments,
such as example submissions or answer templates.

Availability

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Allow submissions from
Allow submissions from setting prevents students from submitting their assignment before the
shown date. A teacher can 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 event, be able to view the instructions and use any materials you have included in the
description. Still, 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

Due date
The Due date setting prevents students from submitting their assignment after the shown date.
This option allows a 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 seven days ahead of the day and time
you selected Add Assignment.
To disable this feature, ensure the Enable checkbox is not marked.

Note: Assignments without a due date will appear on the My home page with "No Due
date" displayed.
Submissions are still allowed after this date but will be marked as late.

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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 for the assignment to display on the teacher's Course overview
block and in the Calendar. It will show when at least one student has submitted.

Submission types

Online text
Students type their responses directly in Moodle using a text editor (such as the Atto editor
which automatically saves text at regular intervals.)
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. Numbers are counted as words and abbreviations such
as I'm or they're are counted as single words.

File submissions
Students can upload one or more files of any type the teacher can open. The teacher can
annotate uploaded PDFs, docx and odt files within the browser, and on saving, the annotated
file is made available to the student. (Check with your admin that Ghostscript and a document
converter are enabled, if you can't annotate uploaded files.) In the screenshot below, a docx file
has been uploaded and converted so that the teacher may use the annotation tools to comment
directly on the student's assignment.

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Submission comments
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.

Note: Submission comments will appear in the grading table (click on the
assignment activity, then click on the View/Grade all Submission button),
in the Submission comments column. Submission comments allow
two-way communication between the student and the teacher.

Maximum submission size

The maximum upload size refers to each file a student uploads. It cannot be larger than the
limit in the Course settings.

Accepted file types

The teacher can specify the types of file the students may upload to the assignment. A file type
selector appears upon clicking 'Choose' , offering a choice of different file types. (See the video
File type selection for more information.) Leaving the field blank will allow all file types.

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 Teacher view of specified files :

Feedback types

Feedback comments
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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

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The Atto editor now allows for recording audio and video when grading, along with the option
to upload supporting files such as images.
Annotate PDF appears if this setting is enabled by the Site administrator in the Manage
assignment feedback plugins section of Site admin and will allow the teacher to annotate using
comments,stamps and other features.

Offline grading worksheet

This is useful if you wish to download the grading list and edit it in a program such as MS
Excel.
The empty gradebook worksheet

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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 assignment grading screen (accessed from '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.

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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. Click
'Confirm'.

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Submission settings

Require students click submit button

• If this is set to 'No' students can make changes to their submission at any time. (If you
want to stop them 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 set to 'Yes', students can upload draft versions of the assignment until such time as
they are ready to submit. Clicking the submit button tells the teacher they have
finished drafting and want the work to be graded. They can no longer edit it and must
ask the teacher to revert to draft status if they need to change it again.To do that, click
'View/Grade all submissions; 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

An administrator can define a "Submission statement" (see below) i.e. a statement where
students promise the work is their own and which they must agree to before submitting their
work. 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. 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.

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Attempts reopened
If 'require students to click submit' is enabled, then students may only submit 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.
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 - or they might be trying for ever!

Groups submission settings

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

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.

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Require group to make submission
Students not in a group can still submit assignments unless this is forced in Site administration
> Plugins > Assignment > Assignment settings . Moodle will then 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.
Notify graders about late submission
Teachers will receive a message (of a type they choose)whenever a student submits a late
assignment.

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Grade

Specify the maximum grade or point to be applied to the assignment. If you will not be giving
a grade for the assignment, choose None.

Grading method
There are three options:
• Simple direct grading (entering a grade or scale item)
• Marking Guide (shown at the end of this section under Advanced Grading)
• Rubric (shown at the end of this section under Advanced Grading)

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
Any custom point to pass depend on the teacher or requirement for the assignment. For example
40 points is the minimum requirement to pass.

Blind marking
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

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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.

Hide grader identity from students

If this setting is enabled, students are not allowed to view grader identity

Use marking workflow

When set to Yes, teachers will be able to specify the stage they are at in their grading of
individual assignments. One advantage of using marking workflow is that the grades can be
hidden from students until they are set to ‘Released’.

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Use marking 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:

Allocated markers on the grading screen

Activity completion

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Save
Note: After done, make sure to save your assignment to avoid your works
gone.

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