Assignment/Draft Features/URL submissions

URL submissions

This is a proposal for an additional submission type feature in the Assignment module

Goals and rationale

The main goals of this feature are to :

• Enable users to enter the URL of a website for copying it into Moodle (copying and then zipping it) and using it as a form of submission in an assignment activity.

Overview

Settings added to the mod_assign settings page

URL submission (select yesno, default to no)

[Help text] When set to yes, a text box for entering a website URL will be visible to students as one of their forms of submitting the assignment

Changes to submission settings interface

URL submission

If the URL submission select yesno is set to yes, a text box for entering a website URL will be visible to students as one of their forms of submitting the assignment. Anything entered in the box will be checked to ensure that the input is in a web address format before the assignment submission can be saved and submitted for grading

URL submission section addition in the submission page interface

URL submission section

Additional submission section containing a text box for entering a website URL is added and appearing in the submission page when this feature is enabled and its setting is set to yes.