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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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-{{Assignments}}
+{{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.
-[[Image:Assignment_Icon.gif]] The assignment [[Teacher_documentation#Activity_modules|activity]]  module allows teachers to collect work from students, review it and provide feedback including grades.
+{{MediaPlayer | url = https://youtu.be/_oyqSsvHtMo | desc = Assignment}}
-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 Moodle using an [[Online text assignment|online text]] assignment.  There is also an [[Offline activity assignment|offline activity ]] assignment which can be used to remind students of 'real-world' assignments they need to complete and to record grades in Moodle for activities that don't have an online component.
+==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.
-== Assignment Types ==
+Note: Ask your administrator to check the assignment defaults if you are missing a particular setting.
-There are 4 types of assignments:
-#[[Upload a single file assignment|Upload a single file]]
-#[[Advanced uploading of files assignment|Advanced uploading of files]] (1.7 onwards) - options include: multiple file submission, allowing students to type a message alongside their submission & returning a file as feedback.
-#[[Online text assignment|Online text]] - students type directly into Moodle, teachers can provide inline feedback.
-#[[Offline activity assignment|Offline Activity]] - teachers provide a description and due date for an assignment outside of Moodle. A grade & feedback can be recorded in Moodle.
-=== Iterative Assignments ===
+==How does it work?==
-It is possible to create iterative assignments - where the piece of work is graded by the teacher, re-edited by the student, re-graded and so on using either the [[Upload a single file assignment|single file]] or the [[Online text assignment|online text]] and setting 'Allow resubmitting' to 'Yes' in the assignment settings.
+===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.
-==Assignment Flow Chart==
+[[File:studentviewsubmission.png|center|700px]]
-[[Image:flowForAssignment.png|thumb|left|Assignment Flow Chart.]]
-A graphic representation of how the Assignment Module can be used.
+===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)''
-The assignment module allows for detailed feedback from Teachers to Students.
+[[File:assignmentgrading2.png|center|700px]]
+==More information==
+*[[Assignment settings]]
+*[[Using Assignment]]
+*[[Assignment FAQ]]
-== See also ==
+[[de:Kurzanleitung zu Aufgaben]]
-*[[Non-standard assignment types]]
+[[es:Actividad de Tarea]]
-*[[Using Moodle book]] Chapter 7: Assignments
+[[Category:Assignment]]
-*[[Workshop module]] allows peer to peer evaluations, is contributed code in 1.9 onward
-[[Category:Modules]]
-[[de:Aufgabe]]
-[[cs:Modul Úkol]]
-[[eu:Zereginak]]
-[[fr:Devoir]]
-[[nl:Opdracht]]
-[[zh:作业模块]]

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