Getting to Grips with Assignments

Bronze Level – Compulsory

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

9. Set the dates

10. Set if you would like students to declare it is their own work

“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

Gradebook

All the grades for each student can be found in the gradebook

Setting up Grade Scales

Click on grades under settings

Click on the scales tab

Add a new scale. You can now set the grade scale in the assignment settings

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

View/grade all submissions

Assignment Summary

Quick Grading

Select “quick grading” for grading directly into the submissions table.

grade

Comment

Feedback files

Grading and Leaving Comments

Click the grade icon

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

Download the grading worksheet which will open in Excel

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.

Upload grading worksheet

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