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Assignment improvements in 4.5

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”
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.
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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-==About the assignment activity==
+==What is the Assignment activity?==
-[[File:newdocsassignment1.png|thumb||Student view of an assignment]]
+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.
-[[File:assignment video.png|frame|[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NcUp9oyOGo Assignment: Submitted work screencast]]]
+{{MediaPlayer | url = https://youtu.be/3uGKBGYmfm0?si=ujt3enCu76mnrDsC | desc = Assignment}}
-The assignment activity provides a space into which students can submit work for teachers to grade and give feedback on. This saves on paper and is more efficient than email. It can also be used to remind students of 'real-world' assignments they need to complete offline, such as art work, and thus not require any digital content.
-Student submissions are together on one screen of your course. You can require them to submit one or several files and/or to type text essays. It is possible to have them submit work as a group and you can also choose as a teacher to grade their work 'blind' in other words not to see the identities of those who have submitted assignments. Assignments can have deadlines and cut off dates - which you can also extend if necessary.
+==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.
-To add an assignment you should turn on the editing and select it from the Activity chooser.
+Note: Ask your administrator to check the assignment defaults if you are missing a particular setting.
-==Assignment (Submission) types==
+==How does it work?==
-Students can type directly into Moodle, upload files or add media. The options are in the Submission types section and if you don't see a particular option, get the admin to check the Site administration settings in [[Assignment settings]] documentation.
-'''Online text:'''  Text typed into the [[Atto editor]] is automatically saved and the teacher can set a Word limit which will display a warning if students exceed it.
+===Student view===
+*Students click the assignment link and click “Add submission”
+*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.
+*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.
-'''File submissions:''' Students can upload files of any type the teacher can open. The teacher can select a maximum number of files to upload and a maximum size for each file. This will depend on the site settings. If a student uploads a PDF file, the teacher can annotate it within the browser and once saved, these annotations are available for the student. (If you don't have this, get the admin to check Ghostscript is enabled.)
+[[File:404assignmentsubmission.png|center|alt=student assignment submission screen]]
-Students may be able to add a note (comment) to their teacher when the submit their work if this has been enabled sitewide by the administrator.
-==Feedback types==
+===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)''
-Teachers may give feedback in various ways. The options available are in the Feedback types section and if you don't see a particular option, get the admin to check the Site administration settings in the  [[Assignment settings]] documentation.
+[[File:404assignmentgrading.png|center|800px|alt=assignment grading screen]]
-'''Comment inline:'''  With online text submissions, this allows the teacher to give feedback directly on the students's work, in a similar way to grading on paper.
+==More information==
-'''Feedback comments:''' allows graders to leave comments about the students' submissions as well as grades.
-'''Offline grading worksheet''' gives the teacher  a link to download the grading list as a spreadsheet. They will then be able to enter grades and feedback comments offline and then re-upload the sheet. See [[Using Assignment]] for more information.
-'''Feedback files''' allows graders to upload files with feedback when marking. These files may be the marked up student assignments, documents with comments, a completed marking guide, or spoken audio feedback.
-==Grading assignments==
-Assignments may be graded with simple [[Grade points]] or customisable [[Scales]]. If you change the Grading method to Advanced grading, you can then use a [[Marking guide]] or [[Rubric]].
-==Need more information?==
 *[[Assignment settings]]
 *[[Using Assignment]]
 *[[Assignment FAQ]]
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