{"id":3824,"date":"2022-05-09T13:36:35","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T12:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/?post_type=ht_kb&p=3824"},"modified":"2026-09-21T11:32:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T10:32:29","slug":"how-to-add-an-empty-submission-point-to-your-moodle-course","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/article\/how-to-add-an-empty-submission-point-to-your-moodle-course\/","title":{"rendered":"How to add an empty submission point to your Moodle course"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Overview<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Moodle assignments can be used for formative and summative assessments to evaluate student understanding of course material within a semester.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes assessments take place outside the DLE, such as presentations, or the submission of physical work. In order to transfer student grades to the Student Record System (SRS) you will need to record these grades within an empty submission point on the DLE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the introduction of the new Student Record System, this process replaces the previous process used to enter marks via Markbook to UNIT-E.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to add an empty submission point<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

To add an empty submission point to your Moodle course, please follow the steps below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Sign in to your Moodle account and select the course where you would like to add an empty \u2018Assignment\u2019 activity.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Click on the \u2018Edit mode\u2019 toggle switch and then select a section where the submission point will be located.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Click on the \u2018Add an activity or resource\u2019 button and then choose \u2018Assignment\u2019 from the pop-up window.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. A new page will be shown where you can customise the settings of the activity.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    How to edit the settings<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    General<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    In the \u2018General\u2019 section, you can give a useful name and description to the activity. In the \u2018Description\u2019 field, we suggest explaining to the students that this activity is used purely to upload marks, not to make submissions – this is only needed if you wish to show the marks in the DLE\/Moodle too, in addition to SRS (Student Record System).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \"Screenshot<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    Availability<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    In the ‘Availability’ section, you can define the time frame for the activity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Please note that even though your students will not submit work, you still need to select an open (\u2019Allow submissions from\u2019) and close date (\u2019Due date\u2019) for the assignment, otherwise, the grades will fail to transfer to SRS. Please also note, we highly recommend the \u2018Due date\u2019 to be a date in the far future, after the grades have been released as otherwise, the grades would have a \u2018late\u2019 tag in SRS which manually needs to be taken off. When you set up the date, we strongly suggest using a future date, for example, in three weeks time. Please do not use end dates that are on weekends or bank holidays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \"Screenshot<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    Submission types<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    In the \u2018Submission types\u2019 section, please make sure you untick all the boxes, including \u2018File submissions\u2019, \u2018Video Assignment\u2019, and \u2018Online text\u2019 as your students will not submit their work via the DLE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \"Screenshot<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    Grade<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    In the \u2018Grade\u2019 section, you can define the grading strategy that you have used for this particular assessment, such as numerical value, also known as \u2018Points\u2019, or \u2018Scales\u2019, such as \u2018Pass\/Fail\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Please make sure you set the \u2018Blind marking (Anonymous)\u2019 setting to \u2018No\u2019 as otherwise, the student identities would be hidden from you and therefore, you will need to reveal them to be able to upload the grades to the DLE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \"Screenshot<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    Common module settings<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    Please make sure you hide this activity from your students. For this, you will need to change the setting \u2018Availability\u2019 to \u2018Hide on course page\u2019. This is essential as otherwise students would see this submission point on their Moodle Dashboard (\u2019Timeline\u2019 section) and get an e-mail notification about this activity (even if making submissions have been disabled in the settings). This therefore might be confusing and so we strongly suggest hiding the activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In the \u2018Common module settings\u2019 section, please make sure you select an assessment placeholder from the drop-down list where it says \u2018Link to UNIT-e\u2019 currently (this will change soon to say \u2018Bind to Student Record System, as shown in the screenshot below, but you may not see this new wording in your DLE courses yet). This binding is important as it ensures the grades are transferred to the correct location in the student record system once you release them to your students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \"Screen<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    If you choose to keep the submission hidden after you have released the grades and feedback on the DLE, the transferred grades will be accessible to your students via the SRS (\u2019My transcript of results\u2019). You can choose to show the grades and feedback on the DLE by unhiding the submission after the grades and feedback have been released.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Last step<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    As the last step, please make sure you click on the \u2018Save and display\u2019 or on the \u2018Save and return to course\u2019 button to finalise your action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    How to upload grades to an empty submission point<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Once you are done with the setup process, you can then enter the grades you have given to your students. You can do this by using the blue \u2018Grade\u2019 button that appears next to each student. For more information about this process, please read the following article<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Please make sure you also release the grades and the feedback you provided for your students the same way as you would do in a regular \u2018Assignment\u2019 activity, but without notifying them about these changes (if the activity needs to be kept hidden); otherwise, you can notify them about the changes. For more information about this process, please read the following article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    In this article, we will show you how to add an empty submission point to your Moodle course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[27],"ht-kb-tag":[108],"class_list":["post-3824","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-moodle","ht_kb_tag-assignment"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/3824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3824"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/3824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8662,"href":"https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/3824\/revisions\/8662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=3824"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=3824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}