Moodle Assignments

Assessment is a key part of education. The Assignment Activity is the most common way to collect assessable work from your students, and provide them with feedback on that work

Get started with Moodle assignments

Learn about key factors to consider when setting up a Moodle assignment and best practices for setting up common assessment scenarios.
Create a Moodle assignment activity

Learn how to create and set up a Moodle assignment activity and how to apply settings for submission dates, grades and individual or group submission and more.
Set up marker allocation and marking workflow

Learn how to enable marker allocation and marking workflow. This can be useful to track stages of marking when multiple tutors and lecturers are marking submissions.
View the assignment grading overview

From the grading overview, you can view all student submissions attached to an assignment. You can download files, regrade submissions or allow students another attempt.
Grade via the assignment grader interface

From the assignment grader interface, you can provide grades and in-depth feedback for individual student submissions, this can include dictated audio, video and attached feedback files.
Provide feedback using PDF marking and annotation

Learn how to annotate and provide inline feedback directly on a student's PDF file submission. Some formats are automatically converted to PDF format.
Grade using Moodle rubrics

Learn how to create and use rubrics for grading in the grader interface. Rubrics can make the task clearer for students and ensure greater consistency between markers.
Grade using ranged rubrics

Learn how to use ranged rubrics to assign a range of marks to each criterion level, allowing graders to better distinguish between individual students’ performances within each level.
Grade using Moodle marking guides

Learn how to create marking guides for grading in the grader interface. Marking guides allow you to build a set of frequently used comments when marking.
Enable anonymous submissions

Learn how to enable anonymous submissions (displayed with participant number). You can reveal student identities if needed.
Hide or reveal grades

Learn how to hide or reveal grades and feedback for assessments via the grader report or the Gradebook set up page.
Set up extensions and resubmissions

Learn how to extend the due date or allow resubmissions for individual students, multiple students or all students with user overrides.

Frequently asked questions View

View frequently asked questions about Moodle assignments. You can select Expand all and then use CTRL + F (PC) or CMD + F (MAC) to search for keywords.

The due time of an assessment always pulls from the time of the person setting up the assessment, and will display differently for students according to their timezone settings in Moodle. Be aware that the system will only allow you to select 11.55pm as the assessment submission time, unless given express permission from the faculty to choose a non-standard submission time. If needed, you will need to set up overrides for student cohorts in different time zones to adjust the assessment submission time so it appears as 11.55pm in the students local timezone.
If the assignment has Turnitin enabled, it will not accept file types that Turnitin cannot read, including .zip files. You will need to disable the Turnitin settings in the assignment. For more information, see Turnitin: Customise assignment settings.
You can do this by setting an open date for an activity in the activity settings, rather than hiding activities which makes them invisible on the Assessment tab.
In the Assignment Submission settings, check that the "Require students to click the submit button" is enabled. If this setting is already enabled, check that the grade item hasn’t been locked in the Gradebook, as this will also prevent students from submitting to the assignment activity.
Even if one student has submitted the work, all other students should also submit so that they have completed the appropriate acknowledgements of authenticity of their work that are a part of the submission process.

Supporting your students View

There are several steps you can take to ensure students are well supported when completing a Moodle assignment. There are also resources at the university to help them with their assignments.

How to support your students

Collate assessment information together in a central place and ensure all students know where it is. If individual conversations with students are required to clarify details, make sure this information is shared with the rest of the cohort too.
Allow students to ask questions and discuss the assessment task(s) in a productive and positive manner through guided conversations about rubrics, via online forums or assessment drop ins.
Provide clear instructions, guidelines and grading requirements. This can be done by writing instructions in the assignment, stating the weighting, and letting students know the deadlines and time requirements.
Explain the use of Turnitin within Moodle Assignment. Explain how to use the similarity report as a positive and productive tool to improve their writing.
Provide feedback to students. Feedback is a crucial part of the assignment process. One of the best ways to support your students using a Moodle Assignment is to give them feedback. This can be done through annotations, comments sections, the use of rubrics or marking guides.
Keep notes on student questions about assessment tasks, the instructions and the marking process. Use these notes to guide future improvements.

What resources and services are available to students

Here are a number of resources that you can share with your students to help them better prepare for their assessments.

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Moodle Assignments