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• Assignment FAQ
• Assignment settings
• Using Assignment
• 1.1 I get a blank screen when trying to annotate online text or uploaded Word/LibreOffice submissions
• 1.2 I can’t annotate directly on the students’ submissions
• 1.3 Can I record my feedback to students?
• 1.4 I don’t see the submit button when testing my assignment as a student
• 1.5 Can I grade work that’s been done offline outside of Moodle?
• 1.6 Can I grade assignments on my tablet/mobile/iPad?
• 1.7 Can I specify which files my students can submit?
• 1.8 How can I have a timed assignment?
• 1.9 What’s the point of the Due date?
• 1.10 Can I have different dates for different groups or individuals?
• 1.11 How can I find assignments I haven’t yet graded?
• 1.12 How can I grant extensions to individual students (or groups in group assignments?)
• 1.13 How can I be notified when students submit work?
• 1.14 How can I stop being notified for some submitted assignments?
• 1.15 Can I delete a student’s assignment?
• 1.16 Can I download assignments to view them offline?
• 1.17 I can’t edit the grades for assignment submissions
• 1.18 What’s the difference between ‘Revert submissions to draft’ and ‘Allow another attempt?’
• 1.19 I see submissions closed even though the dates are in the future
• 1.20 How can a selected outcome be removed from an assignment?
• 1.21 How can I export the rubric levels and criteria along with students' submissions?
• 1.22 Can I use assignments for teaching and assessing music?
• 1.23 What is a good procedure to issue a certificate based on a face-to-face final test?
• 1.24 Is there a tool on Moodle where groups can collaboratively draft a document and I can see what they are doing in real time or near real time, before they save their work?
• 1.25 How can I make the text display correctly in assignment submission PDF files?
• 2.1 How do I change assignment defaults?
• 2.2 How do I set up Ghostscript?
• 2.3 How do I set up unoconv?
• 2.4 How do I list all assignment files for a user and/or a course
• 2.5 How do I fix an Error 500 for the View submissions page?
• 3 Any further questions?

I get a blank screen when trying to annotate online text or uploaded Word/LibreOffice submissions

The most likely reason for this is that your Moodle site does not have a Document converter installed which converts submissions to PDF so the teacher can annotate them.

You can still grade these submissions, but you can't comment directly on them. You can collapse the blank screen by clicking icons at the bottom right:

I can’t annotate directly on the students’ submissions

Check with your administrator that your site has Ghostscript and one of the Document converters enabled.

Can I record my feedback to students?

Yes! See the video Assignment feedback enhancements

I don’t see the submit button when testing my assignment as a student

This feature is intended for teachers so that they can see how their course appears for students. It isn't a reliable view however, as some features do not display correctly when viewed by a teacher who has switched their role to a student. For that reason it is always preferable where possible to have a "test" student log in to use.

Can I grade work that’s been done offline outside of Moodle?

Yes. Just untick all submission types when setting up the assignment and just use it for grading.

Can I grade assignments on my tablet/mobile/iPad?

Yes. Try it!

Can I specify which files my students can submit?

Yes! When you set up the assignment, you can make this selection in the Submission settings. See Assignment settings for more information.

How can I have a timed assignment?

Ask your administrator to enable the time limit feature from Site administration > Plugins > Assignment settings > Enable timed assignments and you will then have the option from the Availability section.

What’s the point of the Due date?

The Allow submissions from and Due date settings are useful for keeping learners on schedule. Using the Allow submissions from setting will make it possible for learners to preview upcoming activities, while at the same time, prevent them from finishing the course in the first week and not returning for additional activities or information. Likewise, the Due dates help keep the learners from lagging too far behind and decrease the likelihood that the learner will become overwhelmed by having to complete several weeks worth of work at once.

Can I have different dates for different groups or individuals?

You can use the assignment override feature accessed from the assignment settings as mentioned in Using Assignment .

How can I find assignments I haven’t yet graded?

Click on the assignment and then click 'View all submissions'. Click the 'Grade column and it will sort the submissions, with already graded ones at the top of the list.

How can I grant extensions to individual students (or groups in group assignments?)

See Using_Assignment#Granting_extensions (direct link to that section.)

How can I be notified when students submit work?

When setting up or editing the assignment, set the 'Notify graders about submissions' dropdown to 'Yes'.

How can I stop being notified for some submitted assignments?

If you want ALL teachers to stop receiving notifications for a particular assignment then simply set 'Notify graders about submissions' to 'No' in the assignment settings.

By default, teachers and non-editing teachers have the capability Capabilities/mod/assign:receivegradernotifications . If you don't want either teachers or non-editing teachers to receive notifications for a particular assignment, then from the Permissions link in the Administration block of that assignment, set this capability to "prevent" for the role in question.

Can I delete a student’s assignment?

Yes, if the admin has given you the capability Capabilities/mod/assign:editothersubmission .

Can I download assignments to view them offline?

Yes. You can either download all assignment submissions by clicking 'View all submissions' and then 'Download all submissions' OR you can tick the boxes of certain submissions you wish to download and then, from under the list of students, choose 'With selected...Download selected submissions'.

I can’t edit the grades for assignment submissions

If you edit assignment grades directly in the gradebook, an "overridden" flag is set, meaning that the grade can no longer be edited from the Grading summary page. If required, the flag can be removed by turning editing on in the grader report , then clicking the edit grade icon, unchecking the overridden box and saving the changes.

What’s the difference between ‘Revert submissions to draft’ and ‘Allow another attempt?’

'Revert submission to draft' is basically an 'undo' for students who have incorrectly submitted an assignment - it allows them to go back and change the files before submitting again. 'Allow another attempt' saves the submission and the feedback into the submission history and allows them to create a new submission (optionally based on their original submission), which will have its own feedback associated with it.

I see submissions closed even though the dates are in the future

This message will appear if you are trying an assignment as an administrator without actually being enrolled in the course, even thought the dates might look correct. Try with a student account of someone enrolled in the course.

How can a selected outcome be removed from an assignment?

• Follow the Grades link from the Course administration block.
• On the Grader report page, select the Categories and items tab.
• Locate the assignment for which the outcome is to be removed. The outcome is listed directly below it.
• Click the delete icon opposite the outcome.

How can I export the rubric levels and criteria along with students' submissions?

This is not yet possible. If you'd like this functionality, please vote for MDL-32089 . (You need to create a tracker account and to log in to be able to vote.)

Can I use assignments for teaching and assessing music?

For music notation, chord charts, & even "Grigson grids," MuseScore , (free & open source of course) is a richly featured, flexible, & relatively easy to use addition to students' digital tool kits. There's also large libraries of shared transcriptions & scores in MuseScore file formats

Students can submit their MuseScore files for feedback, advice, & grading as Assignments. MuseScore can also export scores as PNG images or post them as attachments in Moodle forums so that they can demonstrate what they mean. This would be better for studying music theory than MIDI files or audio recordings, i.e. keeping the focus on music structure rather than on performance.

What is a good procedure to issue a certificate based on a face-to-face final test?

If the offline assignment is aimed at showing mastery of specific skills or behaviors, you could also set up the Assignment activity in such a manner that:

• there are no submissions possible (no files, no online text)
• the assessment is by marking guide or rubric
• the marking guide or rubric is visible to participants
• With a passing grade and access restriction on the certificate, this will only become available to those who have successfully shown they master what's been assessed offline.
• This works well for master-apprentice type learning situations.
• The coolest thing about this approach is that the offline assessor can use the marking guide of rubric on his tablet, to assess on the go... and that a result will be available as soon as the grade has been saved and released... Plus: there's room to add feedback for the student (which, of course, most important).

Is there a tool on Moodle where groups can collaboratively draft a document and I can see what they are doing in real time or near real time, before they save their work?

• Unfortunately Moodle doesn't currently contain an easy to use tool for collaboratively drafting a document.
• Use Google Docs, but it's independent of Moodle. Please see here: https://matbury.com/wordpress/?p=3771
• There's a Moodle-Etherpad integration module here: https://moodle.org/plugins/mod_etherpadlite that may be of use to you. However, you need to set up Etherpad on your server or at least on the same top-level domain (TLD). Etherpad: https://etherpad.org/
• There's also an integration with Collabora Office, i.e. the online version of LibreOffice (similar to Google Docs but free and open source & without the GDPR issues): https://moodle.org/plugins/mod_collabora Collabora Office: https://www.collaboraoffice.com/

How can I make the text display correctly in assignment submission PDF files?

If the text in your language (such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hebrew or Arabic) displays as ???? in downloaded PDF files, your site admin needs to enable PDF fonts in Site administration > General > Language settings then specify fonts for the languages used on your site in $CFG->pdfexportfont in config.php.

You can then select the font for your language in the new course setting PDF font.

Administrators

How do i change assignment defaults.

Go to Site administration >Plugins >Activity modules >Assignment and check out the Assignment settings, Submission plugins and Feedback plugins links.

How do I set up Ghostscript?

See http://www.ghostscript.com/ and visit Site administration > Plugins > Activity modules > Assignment > Feedback plugins > Annotate PDF to make sure you have the correct path to Ghostscript.

How do I set up unoconv?

See Installing unoconv for details.

How do I list all assignment files for a user and/or a course

Install the Assignment files report additional plugin.

How do I fix an Error 500 for the View submissions page?

If you have courses with more than 100 students, you can limit the number shown on the View submissions page by setting a maximum value for the setting 'Maximum assignments per page' in Site administration > Plugins > Assignment settings.

Any further questions?

Please post in the Assignment forum on moodle.org.

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• Assessment & Feedback

How to mark an Assignment online in Moodle

Preparing to grade an assignment.

Before beginning marking it’s important to understand how your assignment has been setup, so that you can ensure that you are not showing marks and feedback to students before you are ready for them to see them .

By default, Moodle assignments hide grades and feedback from students through the ‘Marking Workflow’ option.

When you create an Assignment, the ‘Marking Workflow’ setting will be enabled. This automatically hides any marks and feedback that you upload for students until you take specific steps to release the marks and feedback. This is a ‘safer’ option for the requirements of most Teachers .

Guidance on  releasing Marks and Feedback, and sending a notification to students  with a few clicks, using marking workflow can be found below.

If you prefer instead to turn off the marking workflow option you can do so within the Assignment’s settings, under the ‘Grade’ settings.  Note that doing this will mean that any marks and feedback added to Moodle will be immediately visible to students!

If you have turned off Marking Workflow, but you  also  don’t want students to see marks and feedback as soon as they are uploaded, you will need to hide the Assignment link and Gradebook item until you are ready to reveal the marks and feedback.

The guidance below shows how to turn off Marking Workflow (if you wish) and how to hide the Assignment link and Gradebook item:

• Find your Assignment and select Settings

• Scroll down to ‘ Grade ’ settings and expand them
• Set  use marking workflow  to  no
• Save changes

Note: Any marks and feedback you add will now be immediately visible to students!

To manually hide marks and feedback from students you will need to hide the Assignment’s  Gradebook item  and the  Assignment link  (which is often not practical where there are late submissions)

To hide the Gradebook item:

• Go to the  Course Homepage  and choose the Grades tab
• From the Grader Report drop-down menu, choose Gradebook Setup .

• In the row for the Assignment that you wish to hide, in the  Actions  column, choose  Edit  then  Hide .

• Save Changes .
• The Gradebook item will now appear to be greyed out to show that it is not visible to students.

To hide the Assignment link from students:  

• Navigate to the Assignment and, from its  Edit  drop-down menu, choose  Hide .

• You can now begin marking.

Note : When are ready to release marks and feedback to students, don’t forget that you’ll need to make the  Gradebook item  and  Assignment  link visible again.

Lock submissions to prevent changes

Before you begin marking it’s a good idea to lock submissions. This will prevent students from making any changes to their submissions once marking is underway. To do so, navigate to your Assignment and View all submissions .

• Tick the box at the top of the ‘select’ column to select all user submissions.
• From the ‘ With selected…’ drop-down menu choose Lock Submissions .

Note: If you have a large number of students you will need to select the option under the table to ‘show all students on one page’.

Moodle grading interface overview

Moodle has a built-in grading interface that allows you to annotate student assignments, add summary comments and award marks. Student submissions are displayed in PDF form and include a link to the Ouriginal similarity report (where activated).

The image below gives an overview of the built-in grading interface:

• Use the next and previous arrows to move to the next page of the student’s document or choose a page from the drop-down menu.
• Add an annotation to comment (with option to choose background colour).
• Use the arrow tool to select, move or delete existing annotations.
• Other tools such as the pen (squiggly line) for free form drawing or writing, shape tools, line, highlighter)
• Stamp tool/x tool.
• Anchor for an annotation (if you hover over it, it expands to reveal the annotation)
• An annotation
• Click the sub-menu icon in annotation (top right corner) to delete or add annotation to a ‘quicklist’ for the assignment).
• Use navigation to see Previous/Next student’s assignment or filter.
• Add grade here in the right-hand pane.
• Summary feedback can be entered here
• Don’t forget to save any changes made!
• Click to cycle through the options for screen layout

The video below provides an introduction to the grading interface, shows how to annotate student scripts, view Ouriginal reports and award marks. It also details how you can lift anonymity (where anonymous marking is being used) at the end of the marking process.

Marking Assignments Online

Marking a Group Assignment

Where one student has uploaded a file on behalf of her Group, the file will appear against all Group members, and any of these can be marked. On the individual student grading page, an option to ‘ Apply grade and feedback to all members of group ’ will appear. If ticked the grades and feedback will be applied to all group members. 

Allocate Assignments to another Marker

You can use the  Marking Allocation  feature to assign student submissions to a specific marker in your Moodle space.

• Marking allocation  – this allows allocation of markers to work after the deadline.  Marking allocation  depends on  Marking workflow  being enabled.

Marking Workflow  and  Marking Allocation  must be enabled in your assignment settings.

Once these have been enabled, you can allocate assignments to a marker.

• Click on your Assignment link
• Click on  View all submissions

• Tick the box to the left of the student whose assignment you want to allocate, then choose  Set allocated marker  and click  Go .
• At the prompt click  Ok , then on the next page select your allocated marker from the drop-down menu and click  Save Changes .

How to lift anonymity in an Assignment

If you are using Anonymous Marking (blind marking) in Moodle, once you have completed marking, it is necessary to lift anonymity in order to release grades to the Gradebook. Please note that lifting anonymity can only be done once, (you cannot return the assignment to an anonymous state once it has been lifted), so ensure that you have completed all marking before going ahead. 

To lift anonymity.

• Click on the assignment link, then click on  View all submissions
• From the grading actions menu choose  Reveal student identities:

This video also shows the process for lifting anonymity: https://uniofbath.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=dbdb18a7-e4f2-40af-a7fe-acd800a3803c&start=0

Lifting Anonymity

Related Articles

• Anonymous marking in Moodle
• Advanced Grading in Moodle
• Group Peer Review for Teachers
• How to mark an Assignment offline and upload feedback
• Using Ouriginal
• How to create an Assignment

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The Moodle Assignment activity provides a place for students to submit work for grading and feedback. Students can submit any digital content (files), such as word-processed documents, spreadsheets, images, and audio and video clips. Responses can also be typed directly into the text editor. An assignment can also be used to create a grade item in the gradebook for assignments they complete outside of Moodle, and thus not require any digital content. Students can submit work individually or as a member of a group, and submissions can be timed.

Assignments can be graded using a numerical or custom scale, or with an advanced grading method such as a rubric. If “Advanced grading” is selected, instructors can enter a grading guide or rubric. When reviewing assignments, feedback can take the form of comments or uploaded files, such as marked-up student submissions, documents with comments, or spoken audio feedback. Grading through the assignment will automatically update the gradebook.  

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When using the Assignment , consider the following:

Include clear instructions for students in the assignment description such as citation standards, formatting guidelines, suggested response length, and whether the assignment is timed. Accepted file types can be selected in settings.

Timed assignments can be useful for essay quizzes or to practice timed writing.

Use the Turnitin plagiarism plugin settings to enable the Turnitin Feedback Studio and other tools for the submission. For more information, see Moodle Activity Settings: Turnitin Plagiarism Plugin .

Use a grading rubric or grading guide to set clear expectations and maintain consistency in grading.

For assignments requiring large file submissions (such as video), require students include links to files in cloud-based storage.  

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• Creating and Editing an Assignment (Faculty)
• Grading an Assignment
• Submitting an Assignment (Students)  

For more information on assignments, read the following documentation from Moodle Docs. Note that the documentation may not show the modern Moodle theme, but the functionality of the settings is the same. All links will open in a new window.

• MoodleDocs: Using Assignment
• MoodleDocs: Assignment Activity
• MoodleDocs: Assignment Settings
• MoodleDocs: Assignment FAQ

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Do students know where to find the gradebook, is the gradebook visible to students, is the graded activity hidden, are restrict access settings used, is the grade from a turnitin assignment, are grade items set to be visible, are category totals or the course total visible.

Are students reporting that they cannot see their grades in Moodle? Depending on the configuration of graded activities or grade columns, there are several possible reasons why a grade is not visible. This page details several troubleshooting steps to make sure that students can see their grades.

If some of your students report being unable to see their grades while others report otherwise, your students may not realize where to find the link that takes them to the gradebook. If possible, give your class a brief orientation on how you have set up the gradebook and how they can find it from your course's main page in Moodle. Alternately, you can direct students to the following help page: View Grades and Track Your Progress in a Moodle Course .

If students are reporting that they cannot see grades for your course at all, then your course settings may be set to prevent students from viewing grades (see Control Gradebook Visibility for Students in Moodle ).

If students report they can see some grades for your course, but not a particular graded activity, check to see if the activity is hidden from students. Hiding a graded activity on your course page also hides its grade from students.

• Locate the graded activity on your course page by opening all sections and scrolling down the page.

• If the activity is hidden, click Show . The link to the activity will no longer be grayed out, indicating the item is visible. The grades for the activity should become visible to students in the gradebook. If not, check the other troubleshooting questions on this page.

Restrict access settings allow you to control when an activity is available to students. When a graded activity is not only unavailable, but also hidden from students using Restrict access settings, students cannot see the grade for the activity. Note: To set a due date or cut-off date, look for Due date , End date , or Cut-off date options on the activity's Settings page. This is a preferred method for ending access.

• Locate the graded activity on your course page and click the Edit link for the activity, then Edit settings . The Edit settings page opens.
• On the Edit settings page, scroll down and click the Restrict access heading to open the Restrict access options.

Turnitin assignments have a setting called Post Date that controls when grades and comments are released to students. Prior to the Post Date , students cannot see the grades you have entered, in either the Turnitin interface or in the Moodle gradebook.

• On your course home page, click on the Turnitin assignment link on your Moodle course page. The assignment opens in Turnitin.

• Change the Post Date to specify the date and time you want students to be able to see their grades and feedback. Note:  If you want the grades to be immediately available, set the Post Date  to today's date (however the Post date cannot be earlier than the Due date ).
• Click outside the date options to save changes.

Instructors can control the visibility of individual grade items by adjusting settings on the Categories and Items page of the gradebook. From here, you can also show or hide category totals and the course total. See Control Visibility of Grade Items in Moodle , or Grade Category Options in the Moodle Gradebook .

If students report that they can see individual grade items but cannot see a category total or the course total grade (and you have confirmed that the totals are set to visible on the Categories and Items page), then it is because the calculation for the totals involved certain grade items that are hidden from students. If you make the hidden items visible, then the total will display. However, if you want these items to remain hidden but still want students to see the totals, then you need to adjust the following gradebook preferences:

• On the Course Management panel, under Grading , select Gradebook Setup . The Gradebook setup page will open. 
• On the Setup sub-tabs, click Course grade settings . The Course grade settings page will open.
• Scroll down the page, under the heading for User report, change the Hide totals if they contain hidden items drop-down menu to Show totals including hidden items to display the total grade including the values from the hidden grades.  Note: Do not select Show totals excluding hidden items as this may result in an inaccurate display to students (e.g., showing category totals out of 15340 points).
• Scroll to the bottom of the page and click Save changes .

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Are you logged into Moodle but not seeing an academic course or site? These steps can help you pinpoint and fix what is causing the problem. 

Check your visibility settings

The My courses  page in Moodle contains a Course overview of the Moodle sites for all courses—past, present, and future—for which you are a participant 

If you can't find a course within this menu, change the time period filter. 

Set it to In progress to show only your current courses. Set it to All to show every course you are or have been enrolled in.     

Check that you're in the right Moodle.

Each member of the  Tri-College Consortium  has its own Moodle site . Academic courses will show up on the Moodle site of the college hosting the course:

• moodle.brynmawr.edu : Bryn Mawr courses (course numbers starting with B, e.g., HIST B200).
• moodle.haverford.edu : Haverford courses (course numbers starting with H, e.g. HIST H200).
• moodle.swarthmore.edu : Swarthmore courses

Check that you're enrolled in Bionic.

If an academic course is missing from your My Courses   page, double-check that you are enrolled in it on Bionic , as that's where enrollment for academic courses happens first. That enrollment data is then sent to Moodle to create class participant lists.

If you are not enrolled in a course on Bionic,  please do the following:

• Students: contact the Registrar’s Office   for help with Bionic.
• Faculty: contact  your department chair  or the Provost's Office. 

If you just enrolled in a course on Bionic,  please wait 24 hours. It can take that long for Bionic to transfer information to Moodle. If you need acsess to a course page in the meantime ,  please do the following:

• Instructors:  contact the Help Desk and ask to be added as an instructor on the Moodle course page.
• Students: access a  Moodle course as a guest to view course materials, if possible. Ask the course's Instructor of Record to   enroll you as an Auditor   if a course isn't guest-accessible or if you need to complete course activities and submit assignments.

Note:  Auditors and  Registered students  have   exactly the same permissions in Moodle. When registration data from Bionic syncs to Moodle, any Auditor  who is a Registered student will be listed as having both roles. This will not affect any of their permissions or work they have submitted.

If 24 hours have passed and a course  still isn't showing up on your  My Courses page, please contact the   Help Desk   and tell us the course subject, number,  and any section  information (e.g., CHEM.B101.002). Also, if you're trying to get anyone added besides yourself, please provide their name .

Other kinds of Moodle courses 

Many departments use Moodle pages for things other than academic courses, such as placement tests, advising programs, and academic resources. These courses are created manually and thus are not handled by Bionic . As a result, Instructor of records or Other editing teachers manually add students to the course. 

• Students:  If a non-academic course Moodle site is missing from your My courses page, contact the person or department who manages it and ask them to enroll you as a participant .
• Faculty:  If you manage a non-academic Moodle site, you can enroll anyone who is not already a course participant. If someone is already a participant but can't access your site, contact the Help Desk and give them the person's name and the course's name.

If you have any additional questions or problems, don't hesitate to reach out to the Help Desk !

Phone: 610-526-7440 | Library and Help Desk hours Email: [email protected] |  Service catalog Location: Canaday Library 1st floor

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