There are four key factors to consider when setting up a Moodle assignment. Click on each of the factors for more considerations and see the accordion below for advice on appropriate settings.
You have the choice of allowing students to submit Online Text, File Submissions or Mahara files (if available in your faculty).
Usually only one submission type is selected. Depending on what you choose, you can set a word limit for online text or specify the type, number and size limit of files that students will be able to submit.
For learning activities where students are assessed but do not submit an assignment, for example an oral presentation, performance, etc. creating a Grade item in the Moodle Gradebook may be more appropriate. For more information, see Grade item.
You can enable group submissions for assignments, where all members of the group must submit the assignment individually or one member of the group can submit the assignment on behalf of the group.
If you have enabled group submissions, make sure you clearly communicate group submission requirements and advise students who are not allocated to a group to contact you before the assignment is due so that they can be allocated to a group. To check if any students are unallocated, see Groups and groupings overview.
You can set a due date for students to submit an assignment on Moodle and a date for when the assignment becomes available/visible to students.
Moodle assignment submission should be set to one standard time (11:55 PM AEST).
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Use International campus cohorts only when a Moodle unit includes Moodle sets submission times based on the time zone of the staff member configuring the activity. If you're based in Australia, the time will default to Australian time—even for students on another campus. To ensure students at international campuses see a locally relevant time, manually override the submission time and set it to the standard local time.
The submission date and time will appear in students' Moodle Calendars and Timelines.
NoteAccording to Monash academic integrity policy, the Turnitin similarity report should be enabled for all text-based assignment submissions, for example essays, case studies, reports, literature review, etc. |
Students derive great value from timely, relevant and personalised feedback on their work. Consider the best ways to deliver this feedback for your assessment tasks. There are a number of options you can choose for the feedback type and grading method. Your selections in the Moodle assignment settings will affect the layout and grading options available in the grader interface for your assignment.
Feedback types include:
You can assign marking of individual or groups of student assignments to markers with marking workflow. This also allows you to monitor the progress of the marking process.
If you have enabled marker allocation and workflow, do not change these settings after students have submitted their assignments. This is because changing workflows in the middle of the assignment process will cause potential technical issues.
You can enable students' assignment submissions to be displayed anonymously to graders or graders to appear anonymously to students. This can be a useful way to reduce unconscious bias in grading.
Anonymised student assignments will be displayed to markers as a participant number rather than by their name. However, if a student has included their name in their assignment submission, it will still be visible to markers.
You can automatically apply late penalties to students’ grades in line with the Monash Marking and Feedback Procedure, ie. 5% of available marks per day or part thereof. The penalty is displayed to students and teachers in the grader report and the assignment grader interface.
Turnitin is a tool that enables student submissions to be checked for matching or highly similar text against an online database including academic papers, previous Turnitin submissions, and the World Wide Web. Turnitin will return a report with a percentage of similarity.
Turnitin should assist you in making your own judgement in regards to Monash University's standards of academic integrity. However it should not be regarded as a “plagiarism detector”, as there are various reasons texts may be similar, for example block quotes, technical terms, similar sources based on assigned reading, etc.
Make sure students understand this, as well as your expectations for Turnitin.
By default, students can submit an unlimited number of drafts through Turnitin before the assignment due date. A similarity report will be generated immediately for the first 3 submissions. After 3 submissions, the similar reports will be generated after 24 hours.
This allows students multiple opportunities to submit their assessment and review the associated similarity report so that they can refine and improve their work, identifying where they need to strengthen their adherence to academic conventions and practice.
Review all settings carefully when creating your Moodle assignment activity, as once students have made submissions, you will no longer be able to change some assignment settings. Make sure they are clearly stated for students.