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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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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. Select Submission type
   1. Online text: Students type their responses directly in Moodle using a text editor. For video assignments, this option must be enabled.
   2. File submissions: Students can upload one or more files. For video assignments, if you do not require students to submit any supporting files such as word files, untick the 'File submissions' option.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click Save and display.

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1. If you want to do offline marking, on the “View all submissions” page, choose the relevant Grading action from the Dropdown box, such as 'Download all submissions' and 'Download grading worksheet'. 
2. The submissions will be downloaded as a zip file that you can extract to your computer. 
3. Each student will have their own folder (usually anonymised by number) containing their submitted file(s). You can then annotate their submission (in Word using Track Changes, or in a PDF editor), or add further files (for example marking sheets, audio or video feedback files) into the same folder. 
4. The grading worksheet will contain a row for each student (identified by submission number matching the submission folder number, if anonymous) and you can use this sheet to enter the grade and any general feedback. Do not delete any of the columns in Excel or you will not be able to upload it afterwards, however you can hide them if desired.

Once you have finished marking, re-upload marking by:

1. Zip the files back together (Note. zip the student folders together, don't zip the assignment folder which contains the submissions. You can re-name your zipped folder if necessary it should not impact upload).
2. Return to the submission inbox, and select "Upload multiple feedback files in a zip" and follow the prompts to upload the zipped folder to the Moodle. Additional files will be attached as feedback to each student's submission. 
3. If using the grading worksheet select the option "Upload grading worksheet", the file should be saved in CSV UTF-8 format. If it is too large (over 160MB) you can split it into multiple documents and upload more than one worksheet.

Option B: To mark online

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Moodle assignments allow for grading with a Rubric or Marking Guide. Detailed guidance is provided in the following two guides:

M09a2 - Moodle Assignment Marking Guides 

M09a3 - Moodle Assignment Rubric 

How to manage anonymous marking when using a Moodle assignment:

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