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What is a Moodle Assignment?

Moodle Assignment lets you set, receive, mark, and give feedback on students' submitted work in multiple files and different file types. Group work can be submitted by a single student with all marks and feedback being returned to all the members of the group. Marks and feedback, including for anonymous submissions, can be uploaded to Moodle. 

Students can:

• Upload any file type the marker can view and receive a submission receipt by email.
• See their feedback across modules in their My Feedback page.
  

In terms of running assignments it allows you to:

• Collect anonymised submissions.
• Allow students to submit as a group, and give marks and feedback as a group.
• Keep marks and feedback hidden from students until ready for release.

Moodle Assignment offers a sophisticated marking environment with:

• Online marking on a single screen, including feedback comments and other annotations.
• The option to bulk-download, mark offline, and bulk-upload again.
• Marking grids and rubrics (can be feedback only or numerically weighted).
• The option to combine audio, video and text-based feedback.

Creating a Moodle Assignment

1. To add a Moodle Assignment to your space, Turn editing on.
2. Click on the Add an activity or resource link.
3. Select Assignment.
4. To see all settings click the Expand all link.
5. Enter an Assignment Name and Description (use for brief instructions - displays at the top of the Assignment page - a Template is provided below).
6. Enter a due date
7. Under Group submission settings, specify if students submit in groups. Marks and feedback you give are distributed to all students in that group. Note. you should have created groups in Moodle beforehand. See Groups and Groupings.
8. Under Grade:
   
   • Grade: Choose if you want to mark out of a point value or scale.
   • Grading method: Choose if you want to use a rubric or marking form to mark. 
   • Anonymous marking: Yes. Student names will be anonymised until after marking (you can mark anonymised submissions offline).

   • Marking workflow: Yes. this to allow all marks and feedback to be released at the same time. It can also help coordinate multiple markers.

   • Hide grader identity from students  - enable this to hide grader name from students.
9. Turnitin Plagiarism plugin settings:
   • You can now enable Turnitin to run in parallel to Moodle Assignment. This allows marking to be done with Moodle assignment's marking tools and text-match checking to be done with Turnitin assignment. For recommended settings see the Turnitin assignment guidance.
10. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click Save and display.

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You can set up a Rubric or Marking Guide in a Moodle assignment to help you mark:

M09a2 - Moodle Assignment Marking Guides 

M09a3 - Moodle Assignment Rubric 

How to manage anonymous marking when using a Moodle assignment:

As stated in the Academic Manual, summative assessments should be marked anonymously. After considering a range of possible definitions, the Board of Examiners has settled on the following definition of anonymous marking on Moodle, Turnitin or other online environment: student names are absent from their submissions at the point of marking.

Instead of their name, students are instructed to use a unique proxy identifier.

There is no expectation that student work remains permanently anonymous to a marker after they have finished marking.

The recommended proxy identifier is the Candidate Number. The Student Record Number (SRN) may be used instead, if preferred. Why is a proxy identifier needed at all? Because staff, sometimes working offline with downloaded files, need a robust, convenient way to refer to any given student, reconcile their markings with those of other markers, and update the student's record in the absence of a name.

Releasing feedback for a Moodle Assignment

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