Creating an online submission in Moodle

Overview

There are many types of online submissions that you can create. The majority of the setup process is the same for each type of online submission, there will just be a specific section in each that will be different.

• Online submission where students can submit files of up to 256 MB
• Online submission where students can submit video/audio files of up to 5 GB
• Online submission where students can submit in groups

How to set up an Assignment in a Moodle course

To add a ‘Assignment’ activity to your course, please follow the steps below:

1. Sign in to your Moodle account and select the course where you would like to add the ‘Assignment’ activity.
2. Click on the ‘Edit mode’ button and then select a section where you would like it to be located.

3. Click on the ‘Add an activity or resource’ button and then select ‘Assignment’ from the popping-up window.

4. You will be directed to the settings of the activity where you can change the following things.

General

In ‘General’ you can decide:

• Assignment name – this will be what the students see as the link to the online submission. make it as clear as possible. An example title might be ‘Submit your (module code-assignment name) here’;
• Description – Please keep this brief, if you have the assessment details in a module handbook use this space to remind students to look there for the information;
• Display description – tick this if you want students to see this information on the main course page;
• Activity instructions – The actions you would like the student to complete for this assignment. This is only shown in the submission page where a student edits and submits their assignment; and
• Additional files – we mainly use this for the 48 hour timed assessments and not for general assignments.

Availability

In ‘Availability’ you can decide:

• Allow submissions from – The earliest date students can start submitting from;
• Due date – The assignment deadline date AND time;
• Cut-off date – This allows students to submit late; and
• Grades & feedback release date – The date when you will release the feedback and grades to the students.

Submission types

In ‘Submission types’ you can decide:

• The types of submission, the most common submission types are file submission and video assignment;
• The maximum number of uploaded files;
• Maximum file submission size; and
• Accepted file types.

The ‘Choose’ button is used for file submissions (not video assignments). If you do not select file types, students will be able to upload files that you may NOT be able to view.

Feedback types

In ‘Feedback types’ you can decide:

• Feedback comments – Will allow you to type directly into a text box on the screen and is good for quick comments;
• Feedback files – Will allow you to attach a feedback file or an annotated version of the submission;
• Offline grading worksheet – You can find more information here about marking offline; and
• Comment inline – if enabled, the submission text will be copied into the feedback comment field during grading.

Submission settings

Submissions setting are set globally under UoP guidelines, as below.

Group submission settings

This is when students need to submit work in groups. Dependent on whether this is selected the drop down menus will change – for more information see Creating group submissions in Moodle.

Please make sure you have set your groups up in the participant area of the Moodle site first (see how to set up groups)

Notifications

Please leave these with the default values.

• Notify graders about submissions – If enabled this will notify graders when a student submits an assignment early, on time or late.
• Notify graders about late submissions – If enabled this will notify graders when a student submits an assignment late.
• Default for ‘Notify student’ – This will notify each student when grading.

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Grade

This is where anonymous marking is enabled. Please leave this on unless you have a specific reason to disable it. Check out the other articles if you want to use Moodle marking guides or Rubrics.

Common module settings

• In the ‘Common module settings’ section, you can decide whether you would like the activity to be shown to the students.
• The ‘Link to UNIT-e’ setting refers to transferring the released grades to the student record system (UNIT-e). The common setting allows you to link the assessment to UNIT-e, use the drop-down box to select the assessment in UNIT-e.
• By default, Moodle detects a user’s language from their browser setting. The ‘Force language’ can be used if you want to force a language instead.
• The ‘Group mode’ can be useful for you if you would like to allocate the students to different lecturers for the checklist.
• Please keep in mind that in this case, we recommend using the ‘Separate group’ option from the drop-down list

Restrict access

In the ‘Restrict access’ section, you can add restrictions in terms of accessing the checklist as a student which can be based on date, grade, group, grouping, or user profile.

Restrict access is on all activities but not normally used with e-Assessments because restrictions have been set in the ‘Availability’ section.