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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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+{{Activities}}
+__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.
-'''Assignments''' allow the teacher to grade various types of student submissions.
+{{MediaPlayer | url = https://youtu.be/_oyqSsvHtMo | desc = Assignment}}
-==Types==
+==How is it set up?==
-Moodle supports plug-in assignment types.
+#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.
-===Official types===
+Note: Ask your administrator to check the assignment defaults if you are missing a particular setting.
-There are three official types:
-;Upload
+==How does it work?==
-:A student can upload a single file. This could be a Word document, spreadsheet or anything digital. Multiple files could be zipped and then submitted.
-;Online Text
-:This assignment type asks users to edit a text, using the normal editing tools. Teachers can grade them online, and even add inline comments or changes.
-;Offline assignment
-:This is useful when the assignment is performed outside of Moodle. It could be something elsewhere on the web or face-to-face. Students can see a description of the assignment, but can't upload files or anything. Grading works normally, and students will get notifications of their grades.
-===Contrib modules===
+===Student view===
-These assignment types have been contributed by users:
+*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.
-;[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=30613 Group Assignment] (by Patrick Jermann)
+[[File:studentviewsubmission.png|center|700px]]
-:One user uploads the file but all the members of his or her group "benefit" from the submission.
-;[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=33940 uploadmulti] (by Brian Jones)
+===Teacher view===
-:Allows uploading multiple files.
+*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)''
-;[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=39979 Multiple Files Upload] (by Gustav W Delius)
+[[File:assignmentgrading2.png|center|700px]]
-:Allows uploading multiple files.
-;[http://cdc.humboldt.edu/moodle/mod/resource/view.php?id=21 Review assignment] (by Humboldt University)
+==More information==
-:A new assignment type that adds the ability to send back to the student a graded copy of their file. For Moodle 1.5.
+*[[Assignment settings]]
+*[[Using Assignment]]
+*[[Assignment FAQ]]
-;[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=34887 Form] (by Michael Robellard)
+[[de:Kurzanleitung zu Aufgaben]]
-:allows students to enter information in a form (multiple textarea boxes) and then the teacher can grade each textarea with a number of points (or other grading scale) and give a comment for each form field
+[[es:Actividad de Tarea]]
+[[Category:Assignment]]
-== See also ==
-*[http://download.moodle.org/docs/using_moodle/ch7_assignments.pdf Using Moodle Chapter 7: Assignments and Exercises]
-== Assignment - Read Only Personal Report Access for Students ==
-* Use to provide access to secure personalised student information such as reports.  (Needs to be moved to a seperate page - How ??)
-* Using "Upload a single file" Assignment to provide individual report access for students:
-Create report files commencing with the moodle user code (easier to create correct "batch" command file with code at start of filename)
-* Create pdf files from all reports (pdf's with the right security settings reduce the likelihood of tampering with final reports cf. other editable files)
-* Open moodle database table mdl_user and copy the fields id and username to a spreadsheet file for manipulation e.g.
-** 2 admin
-** 3 tsp80902
-** 4 che
-* Use a spreadsheet formula to construct the correct command lines to create a folder with the moodle id and move the file starting with the matching username into the new folder:
-e.g. for Excel in a Windows environment use :  ="mkdir"&A2&"CarraigeReturn"&"move "&B2&"_2006_MidSem2.pdf "&A2
-mkdir2CarraigeReturnmove admin_2006_MidSem2.pdf 2
-mkdir3CarraigeReturnmove tsp80902_2006_MidSem2.pdf 3
-mkdir4CarraigeReturnmove che_2006_MidSem2.pdf 4
-* Use an editor to replace the "CarraigeReturn" marker with a real carraige return, and insert a space after the "mkdir" command:
-** mkdir 2
-** move admin_2006_MidSem2.pdf 2
-** mkdir 3
-** move tsp80902_2006_MidSem2.pdf 3
-** mkdir 4
-** move che_2006_MidSem2.pdf 4
-* Go to the course where you want to add the documents and note the course id from the URL displayed in the browser:
-e.g. http://infonet.cheltsec.vic.edu.au/course/view.php?id=5
-* Create an "Upload a single file" Assignment in moodle
-* Upload an marker file for yourself as a test.
-* Update the assignment witht the "available" and "due" dates in the past (so students cannot upload their own amended report !) and check the "Prevent Late Submissions" box.
-* Use a file explorer to go to the moodledata folder and look for this course, then open moddate (module data) and open the last assignment.  You should see a folder created with your id that should contain the marker file that you uploaded.
-* Paste all the files that you want to allow studenst to access in the assignment folder:
-e.g. \\infonet\c$\Webstore\moodledata\5\moddata\assignment\112
-* Paste the batch file in the dame folder
-* Add a line at the start of the batch file to make it start in the correct physical network folder when it starts making new folders: e.g.
-** net use /d R:
-** net use R: \\infonet\c$\Webstore\moodledata\5\moddata\assignment\125
-** cd /d R:\
-* the final batch command file should look like:
-** net use /d R:
-** net use R: \\infonet\c$\Webstore\moodledata\5\moddata\assignment\125
-** cd /d R:\
-** mkdir 9
-** move bou0010_2006_MidSem2.pdf 9
-** mkdir 10
-** move wol0002_2006_MidSem2.pdf 10
-** mkdir 11
-** etc.....
-* Run the batch file, and the folders will be created as if the students had uploaded their own reports themselves.
-[[Category:Teacher]]
-[[category:Modules]]
-[[fr:Devoir]]
-[[nl:Opdracht]]

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