As a teacher
you can have your learners submit work through your Moodle course.
This saves on paper and it's better than email
because when they submit you will see a list of your class
only - not cluttered up with emails from colleagues and companies
What they submit can be uploaded files
or text written directly on Moodle and
as we see if we look at this example of an assignment -
because you can type your instructions into Moodle's text editor
it doesn't only have to be text; you can add
links, images or videos relevant to your assignment.
An assignment maybe for one individual
or it may be for a group ,and as a teacher you can choose
whether or not see the identities of your learners
as you're grading it so
if we want to add an assignment we need to turn the editing on
either by clicking the button top right or by scrolling down
to the administration block, clicking the link turn editing on
then
in the section where we want to add the assignment - I'm going to add it in the
writing section -
we click the link "Add an activity or resource"
to bring up Moodles activity chooser. Assignment is the first on the list
and we can either click it one to read the
explanation about an assignment with some examples for using it
and then click the Add button or we can simply click the radio button twice.
This then takes us to the assignment setup screen
Because assignment is so powerful it has many different
options; we're only going to look at a few in this particular video.
The name is important because this is what the
learners will see on the course page and then
in the description you add what you want them to do for the assignment.
If you want to include images media
or links you click the Show editing tools button
I'm just going to write short description of what they need to do
If you want to display the instructions on the course page
you check the box. Scrolling down you can then choose when you want
them to send in their work and due dates
or a cut-off date beyond which they won't be able to send it in
What's important next is to decide
your submission type - in other words if you want them to
upload one of several files ,you make sure that file submissions is checked
and then you can choose the number of files you want them to send in
so it isn't only one file - they could be working on a project where they would
send in a number of files. If you want the merely to type an essay
using Moodle text editor you select online
text ,and if you want them to be able to send you a little message
along with their submission you check submission comment.
Once we've done this
we can actually scroll down and save and return to course and we're ready to go.
But it is worth exploring some of the other options in the other links
for example - in submission settings you can decide
whether you want them to accept an agreement that the work is their own
In Group submission settings you can get them to work
and submit in a group, and if we click Grade
very quickly we can see that you can set a mark
out of which you wish your assignment to be graded -anything up to a hundred.
It's also possible to create your own scales
which will look at briefly in another video ,and
if you check Blind marking then you won't initially be able to see
which student has submitted which work.But for now
we just need to safe and return to course
and our assignment is ready for our students to submit
and you can see that it has its own icon this enables the learner to identify
what particular activity
they're doing when they click the link.