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Assignment settings.

Using Assignment
Assignment FAQ

This page explores in more detail the settings for the Assignment activity once you have added it to your course and also covers the Site administration settings.

Note that if you want to edit an existing assignment, click the Edit link to its right and choose the action you wish to take, e.g. 'Edit settings'.

2 Availability
3 Submission types
4 Feedback types
5 Submission settings
6 Groups submission settings
7 Notifications
8.1 Anonymous submissions
8.2 Marking (grading) workflow
9 Other settings
10 Assignment capabilities
11.1 Assignment settings
11.2 Submission plugins
11.3.1.1 Check Ghostscript
In the Description, give a general explanation of the assignment. Check the box if you want this description to display on the course page.
In Additional files, you can add files which may be of help to the students as they do their assignment, such as example submissions or answer templates.
In Activity instructions, explain in greater detail what students must do. This is displayed when they edit and submit their assignment.

Availability

Submission types.

Here you can decide how you wish students to submit their work to you.

Note: If Submission comments are enabled in Administration>Plugins>Activity modules>Assignment>Submission plugins , students will be able to add a note to their teacher on submitting work. If Anonymous submissions are enabled, student comments display in the gradebook as from "Participant 01 etc" to avoid revealing identities.

It's possible to set a word limit on an online text assignment. Students get a warning if they try to exceed the word limit. Numbers are counted as words and abbreviations such as I'm or they're are counted as single words.

Comments may be collapsed to make it easier to read the original text:

If the file types have been restricted, then when students attempt to submit the assignment, they will see a message telling them which files are accepted:

Feedback types

Annotate PDF appears if this setting is enabled by the Site administrator in the Manage assignment feedback plugins section of Site admin and will allow the teacher to annotate using comments, stamps and other features.

When the teacher has completed their grading offline, they can then upload the spreadsheet, confirm the changes and the grades and comments will be transferred over into Moodle's gradebook:

Uploading multiple feedback files is also possible:

Download the students' assignments using the "Download all submissions" link.
Extract the folder offline and add your comments to the student's submissions. Keep the names the same.
Select the students' submissions and zip them into a new folder. Important: Don't just edit them inside their original folder and re-zip this; it will not work. The folder name does not matter as long as the feedback files have the same names as before.
Upload this newly zipped folder.
You will be presented with a confirmation screen displaying your feedback files. (If you zip files from a Mac, make sure to remove the folder _MACOSX)

Submission settings

Groups submission settings.

These settings allow students to collaborate on a single assignment, e.g. working in the same online area or uploading, editing and reuploading an MS Powerpoint in the common assignment area.

When grading, the teacher may choose to give a common grade and feedback to all students in the group or to give individual grades and feedback to each member.

Notifications

(Note that if you are using group mode then course teachers need to be members of the group in order to receive submission and late submission notifications.)

New feature in Moodle 4.5 !

Learners receive the following assignment notifications (via their preferred notification format):

Assignment due in 7 days
Upcoming assignment due (48 hours before the due date)
Assignment overdue.
See Grade points and Advanced grading methods for more information on the settings here.
Setting a passing grade may be connected with Activity completion and Restrict access such that a student will not be able to access a follow up activity until they have passed this assignment.

Anonymous submissions

This hides students' names when grading and instead shows randomly generated Participant numbers.

With Anonymous submissions, students cannot see the final grade until all of the students' names have been revealed. Rubrics will also be hidden from students' view until the names are revealed. To reveal student names after you are finished grading, look under Assignment settings > Reveal student identities . Feedback comments will appear whether or not student names are hidden or revealed. Note that this level of anonymity might not suit the privacy requirements of your organisation. See MDL-35390 for more details.

Users with the capability View student identities when Anonymous submissions are enabled (by default managers only) can view student identities and participant numbers.

Users with the capability View anonymous events in reports (by default managers only) can view student submissions to assignments with Anonymous submissions (in Moodle 3.9 onwards).

Marking (grading) workflow

This lets you keep grades and feedback hidden until you are ready to release them to students. It is also useful if you want to show your progress in grading, or co-ordinate multiple markers/graders.

The phases are:

Not marked (the marker has not yet started)
In marking (the marker has started but not yet finished)
Marking completed (the marker has finished but might need to go back for checking/corrections)
In review (the marking is now with the teacher in charge for quality checking)
Ready for release (the teacher in charge is satisfied with the marking but wait before giving students access to the marking)
Released (the student can access the grades/feedback)

Other settings

Depending on what is enabled for your site and course, you may also need to explore Common module settings , Restrict access , Activity completion , Tags and Competencies

Assignment capabilities

Export own submission
Grade assignment
Submit assignment
View assignment

Role permissions for the activity can be changed from the gear icon Actions menu.

Site administration settings

Administrators can access assignment configuration options by expanding Administration > Site administration > Plugins > Activity modules > Assignment .

Here, the administrator can set defaults for certain settings. They may also make certain settings 'Advanced' which means a course teacher has to click the 'Show more' link to see them, or they may 'lock' settings which means a course teacher cannot alter that setting.

If the site contains courses with over 100 participants, the number of assignments listed on the assignment grading page may be limited using the Maximum assignments per page (assign | maxperpage) setting. This removes 'All' from the 'Assignments per page' setting.

If it is left as the default "No", then teachers will have the choice within their own assignments to force this or not.

The submission statement may be shown in different languages. See Multi-language content filter for how to do this.

Note for sites using languages other than English: There is currently a bug affecting the default assignment submission statement - it doesn't display in a user's language ( MDL-54731 ). A workaround is to enter the submission statement in the required language (using the multi-lang filter if multiple languages are required) in the 'Submission statement' (submissionstatement) field then save the changes.