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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.
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- To add a Moodle Assignment to your space, Turn editing on.
- Click on the Add an activity or resource link.
- Select Assignment.
- To see all settings click the Expand all link.
- Enter an Assignment Name and Description (use for brief instructions - displays at the top of the Assignment page - a Template is provided below).
- Enter a due date
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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:
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- Create Moodle assignment:
- Provide detailed instructions in the description.
- Anonymous marking: Yes.
- Marking workflow: Yes.
- Enable Turnitin for text matching: Yes.
- State explicitly to students that they should name their file with their candidate number (see anonymous marking guidelines).
- If a Group assignment, make sure to set up groups on Moodle beforehand and enable group submissions.
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