Checklist
Creating a Moodle Assignment
An overview of a Moodle assignment, and the key settings required to set up a Moodle assignment, can be found on the Moodle assignment wiki page.
Moodle Assignment with Turnitin
You have the option to enable Turnitin's text-matching report within a Moodle Assignment. This allows you to use Moodle Assignment's marking tools, such as the ability to download and upload feedback documents, whilst still having Turnitin's text match report at hand to analyse.
Grading a Moodle Assignment
Overview (begin here!)
There are a range of options when it comes to grading a Moodle assignment. For a basic overview of how to mark, see
M09a1 - Marking and Giving Feedback in Moodle Assignment
Marking with a Rubric or Marking Guide:
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 wherever possible marked anonymously. Moodle Assignments allow for anonymous submissions and grading. Advice on managing anonymous submissions, double marking and moderating within Moodle assignment are provided in the guide:
M09a4 - Anonymous Marking in Moodle Assignment
Grading offline
It is possible to bulk download Moodle submissions and then mark them in for example Word using Track Changes or a PDF reader.
Feedback can then be bulk re-uploaded to Moodle and released when ready.
For an explanation of this process see the M09a1 - Marking and Giving Feedback in Moodle Assignment.
For brief guidance on using Word or a PDF reader to annotate a file, see M09a5 - Give Feedback Using Word or a PDF reader
