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Bug in Moodle assignment - 2 Sept 2024

2 September 2024

We have identified a bug in the Moodle assignment when using the Turnitin plugin. The submission file is uploaded as normal and can be viewed / graded by the Tutor in Moodle assignment, however a similarity Report is not generated.

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The similarity report will show as queued, but no similarity score will be returned until the issue is resolved. Once resolved all queued items will process and return a score. N.B. Turnitin assignments are not affected.

A developer is currently working on a fix for the Turnitin plugin which when ready and tested will be deployed to the production environment as soon as possible.

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How to mark a Moodle Assignment offline and upload feedback

Published on: 30/08/2023 · Last updated on: 02/09/2024

Preparing to grade an Assignment

Before beginning marking it’s important to understand how your assignment has been setup, so that you can ensure that you are not showing marks and feedback to students before you are ready for them to see them . By default, Moodle assignments hide grades and feedback from students through the ‘Marking Workflow’ option. To get started please read the ‘Preparing to Mark’ guidance below .  

When you create an Assignment, the ‘Marking Workflow’ setting will be enabled. This automatically hides any marks and feedback that you upload for students until you take specific steps to release the marks and feedback. This is a ‘safer’ option for the requirements of most Teachers .

Guidance on  releasing Marks and Feedback, and sending a notification to students  with a few clicks, using marking workflow can be found below.

If you prefer instead to turn off the marking workflow option you can do so within the Assignment’s settings, under the ‘Grade’ settings.  Note that doing this will mean that any marks and feedback added to Moodle will be immediately visible to students!

If you have turned off Marking Workflow, but you  also  don’t want students to see marks and feedback as soon as they are uploaded, you will need to hide the Assignment link and Gradebook item until you are ready to reveal the marks and feedback.

The guidance below shows how to turn off Marking Workflow (if you wish) and how to hide the Assignment link and Gradebook item:

• Find your Assignment and click the Settings tab.

• Scroll down to ‘Grade’ settings and expand them
• Set  use marking workflow  to  no
• Save changes

Note: Any marks and feedback you add will now be immediately visible to students!

To manually hide marks and feedback from students you will need to hide the Assignment’s  Gradebook item  and the  Assignment link  (which is often not practical where there are late submissions)

To hide the Gradebook item:

• Go to the  Course Homepage  and choose  Grades :
• From the Grader Report dropdown, choose Gradebook Setup

• In the row for the Assignment that you wish to hide, in the  Actions  column, choose  Edit  then  Hide .

• Save Changes
• The Gradebook item will now have a crossed through eye icon to show that it is not visible to students.

To hide the Assignment link from students:  

• Navigate to the Assignment and, from its  Edit  menu, choose  Hide on course page :

• You can now begin marking
• When are ready to release marks and feedback to students, don’t forget that you’ll need to make the  Gradebook item  and  Assignment  link visible again.

Lock submissions to prevent changes

Before you begin marking it’s a good idea to lock submissions. This will prevent students from making any changes to their submissions once marking is underway. To do so, navigate to your Assignment and View all submissions, then:

• Tick the box at the top of the ‘select’ column to select all user submissions
• From the With selected… dropdown choose Lock Submissions

NB: If you have a large number of students you will need to select the option under the table to ‘show all students on one page’.

Download submissions/Mark offline/Upload Annotated submissions

It is possible to download student submissions in order to annotate them offline. Moodle allows all submissions to be downloaded in a single zip file and to be returned after annotation, with any additional files if desired, in the same manner. You can also download the Grading Worksheet, add marks to it, and re-upload to Moodle to award marks to all students. Please see the video below for full details, or follow the steps underneath it:

To download student scripts and the Grading Worksheet:

• Navigate to your assignment and select it.
• Click the  View all submissions  button.
• if the submission is more than a single file, or if you have a feedback form to return to students, tick the box.
• if the submission is only one file, which you will annotate and return to students, leave unticked.
• From the  Grading action  menu at the top choose  Download all submissions .
• A Zip folder will be downloaded to your machine. Right click the folder and choose ‘Extract all’ (or similar), then click ‘Extract’. Files will be extracted.
• You can now open the files to read and annotate them.  Important! When saving annotations DO NOT rename the files.
• Return to Moodle, and from  Grading action  menu, choose  Download Grading worksheet (Bath version) .
• Save the file, noting that it is a .CSV file, not a standard Excel document.
• Open the file from your Downloads folder (if using a Mac you may need to right click on it and specify ‘open with Excel’) and add grades to the Grade column as desired.  Important! DO NOT change any column headings.
• You may optionally add short comments for students in the  Feedback comments  column.
• Save changes ensuring the file type is .CSV

To return summary comments and the completed Grading Worksheet to Moodle:

• Navigate to your Assignment and select it.
• From the  Grading action  menu at the top choose  Upload Grading worksheet .
• Select the .CSV file you saved (drag and drop, or ‘choose a file’) and click  Upload grading worksheet  and  confirm.  Grades and any summary feedback comments that you included will now be shown in the Grading table.

To return annotated scripts to Moodle:

Before returning the annotated scripts as feedback files, you must add them to a  .zip  folder.

If you downloaded all of the submissions in a single .zip file:

• Navigate to the folder that you have stored the annotated files in, and open it so that you can see all the file thumbnails. 
• Select all of the files (CTRL+A on Windows or Command+A on Mac).
• Right-click and choose  Send to… then  Compressed (Zip) folder  (on Windows) or right-click and choose  Compress  (on Mac).
• The new  .Zip  folder will be automatically named after one of the files, this isn’t a problem, but rename it if you wish (right-click and  Rename ).
• Return to the Moodle Assignment, and from the  Grading Action  dropdown menu (where you downloaded the files from) choose  Upload multiple feedback files in a Zip
• On the next page,  Choose a file  or drag and drop the .zip file into the file upload area on-screen.
• Click  Import feedback file(s) , then  Confirm  and  Continue .
• The annotated feedback files will now be displayed in the  Feedback files  column in the Grading Table.

If you downloaded the student submissions in folders:

• Navigate to the folder containing the folders of annotated files (and any additional feedback files you are returning to students) and open it.
• Select all of the folders (CTRL+A on Windows or Command+A on Mac).
• The new. Zip  folder will be automatically named after one of the folders, this isn’t a problem, but rename it if you wish (right-click and  Rename ).
• Return to the Moodle Assignment, and from the  Grading Action  dropdown menu (where you downloaded the files from) choose  Upload multiple feedback files in a Zip.
• On the next page,  Choose a file  (or drag and drop) to get your  .zip  file into the file upload area on-screen.

Marking a Group Assignment

Where one student has uploaded a file on behalf of her Group, the file will appear against all Group members, and any of these can be marked. On the individual student grading page, an option to ‘apply grade and feedback to all members of group’ will appear. If ticked the grades and feedback will be applied to all group members. 

Allocate Assignments to another Marker

You can use the  Marking Allocation  feature to assign student submissions to another marker in your course.

• Marking allocation  – this allows allocation of markers to work after the deadline.  Marking allocation  depends on  Marking workflow  being enabled.

Marking Workflow  and  Marking Allocation  must be enabled in your assignment settings: 

Once these have been enabled, to allocate assignments to a marker.

• Click on your Assignment link.
• Click on  View all submissions .

• Tick the box to the left of the student whose assignment you want to allocate, then choose  Set allocated marker  and click  Go  (see image above).
• At the prompt click  Ok , then on the next page select your allocate marker from the dropdown and click  Save Changes .

How to lift anonymity in an Assignment

If you are using Anonymous Marking (blind marking) in Moodle, once you have completed marking, it is necessary to lift anonymity in order to release grades to the Gradebook. Please note that lifting anonymity can only be done once, (you cannot return the assignment to an anonymous state once it has been lifted), so ensure that you have completed all marking before going ahead. 

To lift anonymity:

• Click on the assignment link, then click on  View all submissions .
• From the grading actions menu choose  Reveal student identities .

Lift Anonymity

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The assignment activity has specialized group settings to help facilitate collaborative work.

Before configuring groups in an assignment, make sure to create groups . If you are using groups in more than one assignment you may also want to create a grouping .

• Open the assignment you want to add groups to
• Click Edit settings from the “Assignment administration” menu.
• In the "Group submissions settings" section, set "Students submit in groups" to Yes to enable group submissions.
• Set "Require group to make submission" to Yes if you don't want to allow students not in a group to be able to submit (they will see a message reading: "You're not a member of any group; please contact your teacher").
• The "Require all group members submit" field will become available if the "Require students click submit button" field (in the "Submission settings" section") is set to Yes . If both of these are enabled, the assignment will not be counted as submitted until all members of the group have visited the assignment and clicked the submit button. This is useful if multiple students need to upload contributions. When one student has submitted, the other members of the group will be able to see who still has to submit.

• Use the "Grouping for student groups" field if you are using groups in more than one activity in Moodle. For example, you may have one set of groups for a collaborative project and another set for discussions forums. See the Create a Grouping guide for details on setting up groupings.
• Click Save and display or Save and return to course .
• When you open the assignment, you will see Moodle is only expecting submissions for each group, rather than for each student.

• When grading submissions, you will see an option to "Apply grades and feedback to entire group." If you leave this set to its default Yes , all members of the group will automatically receive the same grades and feedback.

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It is possible to set up group assignments using the Assignment activity . Before using group assignments, you will need to set up and apply groupings in addition to groups. This is because group submissions can disappear if groups are used and a student is in one group and is subsequently added to another group. You can find out more about setting up groups and groupings in our Manage Group guide.

• Ensure that all the students on your module are in a group before submissions are made. If you do not do this then one student's assignment submission will become available to all students.
• All groups must be correct prior to the first submission. Changing group membership after one submission will result in assignments being deleted.

The settings for group assignments are more complex that for other assignment types. We recommend you take the time to review the information below on how group assignments can be set up prior to creating a group assignment.

Due to the way that groups are managed in Moodle, it is not possible to have an anonymous group assignment as the group name displays in the assignment submission area. This means that lecturers who may have set up the groups can easily differentiate between the submissions. Staff can view groups and group members by selecting Participants  in the contextual navigation menu and choosing Groups from the enrolled users drop-down menu. 

• For example, James Jones is in Group Assignment Group A and Lisa's Marking Group on the module. If you don't create a specific assignment grouping (shown in the image as Group Assignment), James will have the option of submitting an assignment to two separate groups, Group Assignment Group A and Lisa's Marking Group.
• If a particular grouping is selected here and all students are not in groups, then the assignment grading screen will display any other groups and non-grouped students in the default group.
• If None  is selected and all students are not in groups, then the assignment will display the names of all the groups and put any non-grouped students into a default group.

If your group assignment requires all group members to submit their assignment, this  setting will only only becomes selectable if you set  Require students to click the submit button  to  Yes  under the Submission settings.

If Require all group members submit is   set to No:

• All group members can replace the submitted file with a new one at any point until the Due date.
• Once the Due date is reached the submitted file is automatically assumed to have been agreed as the final submission by each of the group members.

If Require all group members submit is set to Yes:

• All members of the group have the ability to submit a file on behalf of the group.
• Each group member must select the Submit assignment button to confirm that this is the final version of the assignment as agreed with the group.
• When one student submits the assignment, the other members of the group will be able to see who still has to select the Submit assignment button.
• Once a group member has selected  Submit assignment , they cannot change their mind and replace the submitted file with any other file even if the Due date has not yet been reached.
• The assignment is not deemed to be submitted until each of the group members has selected the Submit assignment button.
• Group members who have not selected Submit assignment can replace the submitted file with a new file. If the last member of the group to submit, changes the file submission and selects  Submit assignment , other members of the group will not be able to change it. The group will need to contact the lecturer or course officer to revert the assignment to Draft.
• If the assignment is reverted to draft after it has been submitted, the submission status for each student in the group will revert to Draft. Only the student whose record the lecturer selected in the grading action screen to revert the submission will need to re-submit.
• The other students will see a Draft status but they will not be included in the list of students who need to submit.
• If the lecturer then reverts more students in the group, the status for all students in the group will still be Draft but only students whose submission status was selected to revert the submission will need to re-submit, and not the others in the group.
• When all those students who need to re-submit have re-submitted, the status of the assignment in the assignment grading screen will be displayed as Submitted for all members of the group.
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Making the most of Moodle’s Assignments for formative and summative assessment

Moodle’s assignment activities are easy to set up and offer many possibilities to create unique learning experiences for your students.

The Assignment activity in Moodle allows students to submit work for their teachers to grade or assess. The learners’ submissions may be text typed online or uploaded files of any format that the teachers specify. While creating an Assignment is quite straightforward, this activity has several settings that educators can combine to create unique experiences for their learners. 

Moodle Assignment for formative and summative assessment

Because it has so many combinations of configuration, the Assignment activity can be used both for formative assessment and summative evaluation. The table below outlines the goals and characteristics of each type of assessment: 

In formative assessment the goal is to monitor student learning therefore the assignments should be set to be always available, without necessarily being graded, allowing additional attempts, with no pass grade required (if it is graded). The  activity completion is usually set to “view” or “submit”. An formative assignment such as this often gets a 0% weight in the gradebook. 

In summative assessment, the goal is to evaluate student learning via assessment, thus a summative assignment is usually  set up with clear start, end and cut-off dates. It will be graded, with additional attempts to re-open the assessment set manually. Summative assessments are usually set with a required pass grade and the activity completion linked to requiring a “grade”. Summative assignments often have a weight higher than 20% in the gradebook.

Moodle Assignment submissions

There are many ways to combine submission types and settings in Assignment activity to achieve your teaching and learning goals or simply streamline your class management:

Assignments with no submission required These are assignments where learners don’t have to submit anything to complete the assessment. While this may sound counterintuitive, this type of Assignment can be used, for instance, for offline assessment -use it as an attendance sheet on a field trip- or for example, to assess a face-to-face speaking Assignment where learners really don’t have anything to submit. 

Assignments with online text submission With this type of Assignment submissions, learners add their work directly into the Assignment activity using the Atto editor, a rich text editor that allows learners to write text, add images and even record audio or video files. For this and for all other submission types, you can enable an option to allow learners to work in draft versions of their Assignment before sending the final submission.

Assignments with file submission This type of submission for Assignments requires learners to submit a file -teachers can define its format and size- for teachers to evaluate. To streamline the grading process, teachers can download all submissions at once, including a grading worksheet that displays the user name, email and submission status and allows teachers to add a grade and feedback in comments – and then bulk-upload all assessments back to Moodle, including a separate feedback file for each submission.

Group assignments in Moodle Collaborative learning is at the heart of Moodle LMS, so Moodle Assignments can easily be set up to be submitted as a group. Teachers can set these Assignments up so that only one of the group members has to submit the file, or make it mandatory for each team member to make the submission. Favourite tip: Our Moodle Academy team recommends combining this type of Assignment with a peer evaluation to know how the experience was for each of the group members.

Grading Moodle Assignments

Moodle Assignments support two main types of grading: simple direct grading and advanced grading. The first group includes grading done through numerical scales, custom scales (for example, stars or words like weak , satisfactory , strong , etc) or no grading at all. Advanced grading methods in Moodle include rubrics and marking guides, and we’ll look at them in more detail:

Moodle Assignment: assessment with marking guides In this type of grading, the teacher defines a series of criteria and assigns a maximum amount of marking points to each. When assessing learners’ assignments, the teachers provide both a numerical mark and a comment for each of the criteria. For this type of grading, you can make the criteria and maximum marking points available for learners to see – this helps them know what’s expected from them and what they need to cover in their submission. Favourite tip: Use ‘frequently used comments’ to speed up your grading process and to ensure that your grading is consistent.

Moodle Assignment: assessment with rubrics For grading with rubrics, teachers create a set of criteria with several levels of achievement, all displayed on a table. Sharing the rubric with learners is important, as it lets learners know how they’ll be assessed. For each submission, the rubric will be displayed to teachers, who then can select the level of accomplishment for each of the criteria just by clicking on it, as well as leave written feedback if necessary.

Moodle Assignment: assessment with marking workflow When you set up a marking workflow for an Assignment, it means that learners’ work can be assessed by several teachers. You can manually design the workflow and define the sequence of states (eg not marked , in marking , marked ), as well as allocate marking to another teacher.

This content has been extracted from the Moodle Academy webinar Assessment: exploring Assignments, facilitated by Moodle Education Advisor Anna Krassa. Watch the full webinar on our Moodle Academy site to see 7 real life examples on how you can combine submission types and grading types with availability and different types of feedback to create the right Assignment for your teaching and learning goals .

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Note: You are currently viewing documentation for Moodle 3.8. Up-to-date documentation for the latest stable version of Moodle may be available here: Assignment settings .

Assignment settings

• Assignment quick guide
• Using Assignment
• Assignment FAQ
• 1 Adding an assignment
• 2.1 General
• 2.2 Availability
• 2.3 Submission types
• 2.4 Feedback types
• 2.5 Submission settings
• 2.6 Groups submission settings
• 3 Notifications
• 4.1 Anonymous marking
• 4.2.1 Example use cases
• 4.3 Use marking allocation
• 5 Locally assigned roles
• 6 Assignment capabilities
• 7.1 Assignment settings
• 7.2 Submission plugins
• 7.3.1.1 Check Ghostscript

Adding an assignment

• Go to the course where you want the assignment; turn on the editing, and in the section you want the assignment, click 'Add an activity or resource'.
• From the Activity chooser, click the Assignment button and click 'Add'.

(If you want to edit an existing assignment, click the Edit link to its right and choose the action you wish to take, eg 'Edit settings'.)

Give your assignment a name (which students will see to click on) and, if required, a description. If you want the description to display on the course page, check the box.

Availability

Submission types.

Here you can decide how you wish students to submit their work to you.

Note: If Submission comments are enabled in Administration>Plugins>Activity modules>Assignment>Submission plugins , students will be able to add a note to their teacher on submitting work. If Anonymous (blind) marking is enabled, student comments display in the gradebook as from "Participant 01 etc" to avoid revealing identities.

It's possible to set a word limit on an online text assignment. Students get a warning if they try to exceed the word limit. Numbers are counted as words and abbreviations such as I'm or they're are counted as single words.

Comments may be collapsed to make it easier to read the original text:

If the file types have been restricted, then when students attempt to submit the assignment, they will see a message telling them which files are accepted:

Feedback types

The Atto editor now allows for recording audio and video when grading, along with the option to upload supporting files such as images.

Annotate PDF appears if this setting is enabled by the Site administrator in the Manage assignment feedback plugins section of Site admin and will allow the teacher to annotate using comments,stamps and other features.

When the teacher has completed their grading offline, they can then upload the spreadsheet, confirm the changes and the grades and comments will be transferred over into Moodle's gradebook:

See also Offline grading worksheet blog post by Gavin Henrick.

Uploading multiple feedback files is also possible:

• Download the students' assignments using the "Download all submissions" link from the same dropdown menu;
• Extract the folder offline and add your comments to the student's submissions.Keep the names the same.
• Select the students' submissions and zip them into a new folder. Important: Don't just edit them inside their original folder and re-zip this; it will not work. The folder name does not matter as long as the feedback files have the same names as before.
• Upload this newly zipped folder.
• You will be presented with a confirmation screen displaying your feedback files. (If you zip files from a Mac,make sure to remove the folder _MACOSX)

Submission settings

Groups submission settings

These settings allow students to collaborate on a single assignment, eg, working in the same online area or uploading , editing and reuploading an MS Powerpoint in the common assignment area.

When grading, the teacher may choose to give a common grade and feedback to all students in the group or to give individual grades and feedback to each member.

Notifications

Please note that if you are using group mode then course teachers need to be members of the group in order to receive submission and late submission notifications.

• See Grade points and Advanced grading methods for more information on the settings here.
• Setting a passing grade may be connected with Activity completion and Restrict access such that a student will not be able to access a follow up activity until they have passed this assignment.

Anonymous marking

Sometimes known as 'blind marking', anonymous marking prevents assessors from seeing students' names on submissions. Instead, they will see randomly generated Participant numbers. (The student view of the assignment does not change.) This is also the case if student comments have been enabled.

Because of the nature of anonymous marking, the students cannot see the final grade until all of the students' names have been revealed. If you are grading an assignment using an advanced grading method such as a rubric, the rubric will also be hidden from students' view until the names are revealed. To reveal student names after you are finished grading, look under Assignment settings > Reveal student identities . Feedback comments will appear whether or not student names are hidden or revealed. Note that this level of anonymity might not suit the privacy requirements of your organisation. See MDL-35390 for more details.

Users with the capability mod/assign:viewblinddetails can view student identities and participant numbers (in Moodle 3.0.3 onwards).

Use marking (grading) workflow

Enable Marking Workflow if you need to:

• keep grades and feedback hidden until you are ready to release them (otherwise by default they display to each student as you save them).
• state where you are up to in your grading.
• coordinate multiple markers.

One advantage of using marking workflow is that the grades can be hidden from students until they are set to 'Released'. The phases are:

• Not marked (the marker has not yet started)
• In marking (the marker has started but not yet finished)
• Marking completed (the marker has finished but might need to go back for checking/corrections)
• In review (the marking is now with the teacher in charge for quality checking)
• Ready for release (the teacher in charge is satisfied with the marking but wait before giving students access to the marking)
• Released (the student can access the grades/feedback)

Example use cases

One marker, Marker, wants to release all grades at the same time

• Marker enables "Use marking workflow"
• Marker marks each submission and transitions the grading to "Marking completed" as each submission is graded.
• Marker then uses the batch operations to transition all grades to "Released" at the same time.

Multiple markers,

Use marking allocation

If marking workflow (see above) is set to Yes, it is possible to enable marking allocation. This means that teachers can be selected to grade or review the submitted work of specific students. Colleagues can monitor progress through the displayed marking workflow states:

Locally assigned roles

In Administration > Assignment administration > Locally assigned roles selected users can be given additional roles in the activity. See the Using Moodle Custom role for 'Course Monitor' forum discussion for an example.

Assignment capabilities

• Export own submission
• Grade assignment
• Submit assignment
• View assignment

Role permissions for the activity can be changed in Course administration > Assignment administration > Permissions .

Site administration settings

Administrators can access assignment configuration options by expanding Administration > Site administration > Plugins > Activity modules > Assignment .

Here, the administrator can set defaults for certain settings. They may also make certain settings 'Advanced' which means a course teacher has to click the 'Show more' link to see them, or they may 'lock' settings which means a course teacher cannot alter that setting.

If the site contains courses with over 100 participants, the number of assignments listed on the assignment grading page may be limited using the Maximum assignments per page (assign | maxperpage) setting. This removes 'All' from the 'Assignments per page' setting.

If it is left as the default "No", then teachers will have the choice within their own assignments to force this or not.

The submission statement may be shown in different languages. See Multi-language content filter for how to do this.

Note for sites using languages other than English: There is currently a bug affecting the default assignment submission statement - it doesn't display in a user's language ( MDL-54731 ). A workaround is to enter the submission statement in the required language (using the multi-lang filter if multiple languages are are required) in the 'Submission statement' (submissionstatement) field then save changes.

Submission plugins

Here the administrator can enable, disable or change the order and default settings for any submission plugins.

Feedback plugins

Manage assignment feedback plugins.

Here the administrator can enable, disable or change the order and default settings for any feedback plugins.

Check Ghostscript

You can also check the ghostscript path from here:

If the default stamps are deleted by accident, they can be found in mod/assign/feedback/editpdf/pix and re-uploaded.

Synergy Learning blog post: Assignment resubmissions