Setting Up a Moodle Assignment
What is the Moodle Assignment?
The Moodle Assignment activity is one of the tools that allow students to submit a piece of work or assignment to Moodle. Tutors are then able to grade and give feedback on the piece of work. If you only need to give feedback on a piece of work that isn't required to be submitted (For example, an oral presentation or a piece of artwork from an exhibition) you can also use the Moodle assignment activity to do this. We call this an offline assignment. Students can also submit Mahara Portfolios and video submissions using the Moodle assignment activity.
Note: Blind marking is set as a default on Moodle assignments but can be amended in the Grade section
How do I set up a Moodle assignment?
Within your Moodle course, click the Turn editing on button
In the section or topic area you would like to create the Moodle assignment, click on Add an activity or resource
Under the Activities heading, select Assignment and click Add
Give the assignment a Name and add a description of the Moodle assignment
Update the allow submissions from date and due date. Add a cut-off date if you need to.
Choose your submission type: Video submission, File submission, Mahara portfolio, Online Text. (You can choose more than one option)
Students can upload files from their YSJ OneDrive from Moodle 4.1.11. This takes a copy the file and submits it.
The feedback types are defaulted to Feedback files and Annotate PDF. If you wish to add general feedback comments or bulk upload grades, you will need to ensure these are enabled too
Choose to enable the Turnitin Plagiarism Plugin. See our Turnitin Plagiarism plugin guide for more information.
Students submitting as part of a group? – ensure this is enabled under the Group submission settings and that you have set up your groups in advance.
Expand all other settings and make the necessary amendments or keep them as the default. Edit how you are notified about submissions, how you are grading the assignment or choosing whether you would like to activate the marking workflow (which controls the release of grades and feedback).
Once you are happy with the options you have chosen, scroll to the bottom of the page and click on Save and display (or click Save and return to course)
Quick Tip
Create an offline assignment by disabling the availability dates. This allows you to mark and give feedback without students having to submit assessments.
If you enable the Mahara submission type and file submission type, students will only be able to submit assignments if they have submitted a Mahara portfolio regardless of whether they have submitted a file submission.
Group submissions are possible for file submissions. Group submissions for Mahara is not possible.