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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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-{{Assignment}}The assignment module allows teachers to collect work from students, review it and provide feedback including grades.
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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.
-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.
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+==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
+==How does it work?==
-:A student can upload a single file, such as a Word document, spreadsheet or anything digital. Multiple files can be zipped and then submitted. After learners upload their files in this arrangement, the instructor will be able to open the submission and then use the Moodle interface to assign a grade and offer comments as feedback.
-;Advanced uploading of files
+===Student view===
-:Options include multiple file submission, allowing students to type a message alongside their submission & returning a file as feedback.
+*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.
-;Online Text
+[[File:studentviewsubmission.png|center|700px]]
-:This assignment type asks users to compose and edit text, using the normal editing tools. The online text assignment can be set up to allow learners to compose, revise and edit over time or such that the learner only has one opportunity to enter his or her response. Furthermore, with the online assignment, instructors can grade the work online and even edit and/or provide comments within the learner’s work.
-:The online text assignment is ideal for journalling and composition work.
+===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)''
-;Offline activity
+[[File:assignmentgrading2.png|center|700px]]
-: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. Grading works normally, and students will get notification of their grades.
-:Specifically, an instructor in a hybrid or blended environment (combination of face-to-face and online instruction) may use the offline activity type of assignment to assign a project that the learner will physically present to the instructor at a face-to-face session. This arrangement allows the instructor to communicate the project expectations online while creating an entry for the project in the Moodle gradebook.
+==More information==
+*[[Assignment settings]]
+*[[Using Assignment]]
+*[[Assignment FAQ]]
-:In another example, consider the instructor who gives reading assignments or assigns problems for practice. These activities wouldn’t necessarily be turned in for a grade, but the instructor needs a tool for communicating the assignment details. The offline assignment, with its unique icon, could be used as a consistent visual cue for the learners; learners would come to know that they can always look for the assignment icon to see what work they need to complete.
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+[[es:Actividad de Tarea]]
-==Creative uses==
+[[Category:Assignment]]
-=== Iterative assignments ===
-[[Image:flowForAssignment.png|thumb|left|140x107px|A graphic representation of how the assignment module can be used]]
-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.
-=== A tool for reflection ===
-As reflective learning and formative assessment have a greater presence in education today, the online text assignment proves a useful way for students to record their thoughts and feelings about a particular topic or theme within the Moodle environment itself. Tutors can set up online text activities that ask students to reflect on both rhetorical or assigned questions depending on the learning outcome or goal.
-Online text assignments can also be free spaces set up by the course tutor for students to reflect at moments of their own choosing within a course. It is perfectly acceptable to make use of the online text assignment as a private space for personal learning and reflection in some instances (ie. no tutor feedback) and as a collaborative space between tutor and student in others (ie. tutor feedback, comments and/or short discussions). Pedagogically, both methods of using the activity are good learning models for the former allows students a reflective space of their own to develop their ideas, whilst the latter gives them a space of private support with you that provides them with reliable feedback.
-How you decide to monitor online text activities is, of course, up to you. The most significant element of monitoring is to provide students with clear guidance of when and how this will take place. For instance, if you do not plan to monitor the activity at all, be sure to inform the students that this is a private space for their own personal use (although tutors will be able to read entries) and be clear that no feedback will be provided. Alternatively, if you wish to make contributions in the form of feedback, be sure to inform the student that, for example, they can expect feedback and comments from you once a week or every two weeks. In terms of feedback and expectation levels, keeping communications between you and students very clear will ensure a level of trust necessary to build and maintain a community in your e-learning environment.
-== See also ==
-*[[Workshop module]] allows peer to peer evaluations
-*Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=126431 single file upload vs. advanced uploading] forum discussion
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