mod/redpen/submissions
The Red Pen module is currently in beta and will be released shortly.
To view the submitted Red Pen assignment, the teacher should click on the assignment activity they wish to review. Then click on "View 'x' submitted assignments" link in the upper right corner.
Overview of submissions page
The submissions page contains a table with headings:
- First name and Surname (along with the photograph)
- Grade (for the submitted assignment)
- Comment (the feedback information you have written in the feedback field while grading the assignment)
- Last modified (Student) (the date of the last modification of the assignment by the student and the attached files)
- Last modified (Teacher) (the date of the last modification of the assignment by the teacher)
- Status (with which you can move to the page where you grade the submitted assignment or, in case it's been graded, update the grade and/or the comment)
- Final grade
You can see that the 'Last modified(Student)' column displays files with a percentage after them. This percentage is the Red Pen Tool mark that the teacher has allocated by marking with the Red Pen Tool. Clicking on a document link opens up the Red Pen Tool to allow the teacher to mark the document.
Above the table there is an alphabetical index, which helps you narrow down the number of students shown on one page only to those whose surname (or name) starts with the same letter. That is particularly helpful in case of a large number of course participants.
The list of submissions may be sorted by clicking on a particular heading. Clicking twice on the same heading sorts the list in the opposite order. If the table is too large then columns may be collapsed by clicking on the Hide icon next to a particular column heading.
By default, 10 submissions are shown per page, though this may be changed at the bottom of the page.
Grade submission
Basic grading assignments
To grade or mark a submission, click on the Grade link opposite a particular student's name. A new window will open containing a feedback area.
The top of the page, just above the 'Grade' option, shows the Red Pen Tool total mark, which can be used to directly inform the final grade the teacher applies to the work. At the bottom of the grade page, you can see the Red Pen objective grid, which shows which assignment objectives have been met and how. Clicking on the objective name for any objective opens up the Red Pen Tool and takes you to the correct page so you can see where that objective has been met in the work.
Once you've reviewed the student's assignment, pick the grade for the assignment from the dropdown list. (You set the scale when you created the assignment.) Below the grade scale, you can type comments regarding their work. When you're done, click "Save changes" or "Save and show next".
Quick grading assignments
You may prefer to use "quick grading" by checking the box at the bottom of the submissions page. This enables you to quickly grade multiple assignments all on one page, rather than one by one in a new window. Simply add the grades and comments then when you're done, click "Save all my feedback" at the bottom of the page.
Red Pen Tool
The Red Pen Tool has its own documentation which can be accessed by clicking on the 'help' icon in the top-right hand corner of the tool.
If the documents uploaded by the student could not be converted for use with the Red Pen Tool, then the document links will open up the original document for the teacher to view. Possible reasons for documents not being converted are:
- The document type is not supported
- The document is corrupted
- The Red Pen Tool website account associated with the Red Pen Tool Moodle module has run out of credits.
