Assignment activity: Difference between revisions

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What is the Assignment activity?

Assignments allow students to submit work to their teacher for grading. The work may be text typed online or uploaded files of any type the teacher’s device can read. Grading may be by simple percentages or custom scales, or more complex rubrics may be used. Students may submit as individuals or in groups.

Assignment

How is it set up?

In a course, with the editing turned on, choose 'Assignment' from the activity chooser.
Give it a name and, in the description explain what the students must submit. You can upload a help or example document from the Additional files area.
Expand the other settings to select, for example, availability times, how you want them to submit and how you plan to give them feedback. (Comment inline allows you to annotate directly on their submitted work.)
If you want them to verify they are submitting their own work, or if you want to prevent them changing their submission once uploaded, explore the Submission settings. To have them submit in group, explore Group submission settings (ensuring your course has groups)
To use a rubric instead of a single grade scale, change the Grading method to Rubric and, once the assignment is saved, create or locate the rubric from the Advanced grading link in the Assignment administration block on the side.

Note: Ask your administrator to check the assignment defaults if you are missing a particular setting.

How does it work?

Student view

Students click the assignment link and click “Add submission” (1)
Depending on the assignment settings, they either have a text box into which to type their work or an upload area to submit their file (2)
They may be able to return to their work and redraft it, or they might have to click a submit button to send in a final version which cannot be changed.
See Assignment settings for more information.

Teacher view:

Once students have submitted work, click on the assignment and click “Grades”
The exact view depends on the teacher and admin settings. See Assignment settings for more detail.
Here, the submission may be annotated (1) and/or downloaded (2); a grade entered (3) and individual feedback given (4). The teacher saves the changes (5) and moves to the next student (6)

More information

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-<p class="note">'''Note''': This page is about the new Assignment module in Moodle 2.3 onwards. For documentation about Assignments (2.2), see [https://docs.moodle.org/22/en/Assignment_module Assignment module] in the 2.2 docs.</p>
+__NOTOC__
+==What is the Assignment activity?==
+Assignments allow students to submit work to their teacher for grading. The work may be text typed online or uploaded files of any type the teacher’s device can read. Grading may be by simple percentages or custom scales, or more complex rubrics may be used. Students may submit as individuals or in groups.
+{{MediaPlayer | url = https://youtu.be/S4VqOEAsijk | desc = Assignment}}
-The assignment module allows teachers to collect work from students, review it and provide feedback including grades. The work students submit is visible only to the teacher and not to the other students unless a a group assignment is selected.
+==How is it set up?==
+#In a course, with the editing turned on, choose 'Assignment' from the activity chooser.
+#Give it a name and, in the description explain what the students must submit. You can upload a help or example document from the Additional files area.
+# Expand the other settings to select, for example, availability times, how you want them to submit and how you plan to give them feedback. (Comment inline allows you to annotate directly on their submitted work.)
+#If you want them to verify they are submitting their own work, or if you want to prevent them changing their submission once uploaded, explore the Submission settings. To have them submit in group, explore Group submission settings (ensuring your course has groups)
+#To use a rubric instead of a single grade scale, change the Grading method to Rubric and, once the assignment is saved, create or locate the rubric from the Advanced grading link in the Assignment administration block on the side.
-[[Image:Assignment example.jpg|frame|center]]
+Note: Ask your administrator to check the assignment defaults if you are missing a particular setting.
-* [[Assignment settings]]
+==How does it work?==
-* [[Using Assignment]]
-* [[Assignment FAQ]]
-* [[Upgrade tool]]
-Students can submit any digital content (files), including, for example, word-processed documents, spreadsheets, images, audio and video clips.  Assignments don't necessarily have to consist of file uploads.  Alternatively, teachers can ask students to type directly into a text field in Moodle. Or they can ask student to do both, upload a file or files and type text directly into Moodle. An assignment activity can also be set up to not accept any student submissions and serve as a reminder to students of a 'real-world' assignment they need to complete and to record grades in Moodle for activities that don't have an online component.
+===Student view===
+*Students click the assignment link and click “Add submission” ''(1)''
+*Depending on the assignment settings, they either have a text box into which to type their work or an upload area to submit their file ''(2)''
+*They may be able to return to their work and redraft it, or they might have to click a submit button to send in a final version which cannot be changed.
+*See [[Assignment settings]] for more information.
-An assignment has an 'available from' date before which no students can submit anything, and a due date, after which teachers can choose not to accept submissions any more.
+[[File:studentviewsubmission.png|center|700px]]
-Markers can choose to be notified every time a student submits an assignment, or only for late submissions. Markers can choose to give students feedback in the form of text or uploaded files.
+===Teacher view:===
+*Once students have submitted work, click on the assignment and click “Grades”
+*The exact view depends on the teacher and admin settings. See [[Assignment settings]] for more detail.
+* Here, the submission may be annotated ''(1)'' and/or downloaded ''(2)''; a grade entered ''(3)'' and individual feedback given ''(4).'' The teacher saves the changes ''(5)'' and moves to the next student ''(6)''
-== Two assignment modules ==
+[[File:assignmentgrading2.png|center|700px]]
-Moodle  includes two assignment modules - the new assignment module (a rewrite of the old assignment module) and the old assignment module with four subtypes, renamed 'Assignments (2.2)'.
+==More information==
+*[[Assignment settings]]
-For new Moodle 2 installs, Assignments (2.2) is disabled/hidden. For sites which have upgraded from Moodle 2.2, both assignment modules are available. It is recommended that admins upgrade all existing assignments to use the new assignment module as soon as possible, as described in [[Upgrade tool|Assignment upgrade tool]], then disable Assignments (2.2), to avoid the confusion of having two assignment modules.
+*[[Using Assignment]]
+*[[Assignment FAQ]]
-== See also ==
-*[[Workshop module]] allows peer to peer evaluations
+[[de:Kurzanleitung zu Aufgaben]]
+[[es:Guía rápida de Tarea]]
 [[Category:Assignment]]
-[[de:Aufgabe]]
-[[eu:Zereginak]]
-[[fr:Devoir]]

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