Assignment: submitted work.
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'll see a list of your class only on your Moodle course,
not cluttered up with emails from colleagues and organisations.
What they submit can be uploaded files or text written directly on Moodle or 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, and an assignment maybe for one individual or it may be for a group, and
as a teache,r you can choose whether or not to see the identities of your
learners as you are grading it.
With the Atto editor, teachers and students can directly record audio or video. Here the teacher is recording an example video for the students to follow.
So if you want to add an assignment we need to turn the editing on from the
link in the gear menu and then in the section where we want to add the
assignment we click the link Add an activity or resource to bring up
Moodle's activity chooser.
Assignment is first on the list and we can either click it once to read the
explanation about an assignment with some examples for using it and then
click the Add button at the bottom ,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 video.
The name is important because this is what the learners will see on
the course page and then in description you add what you want them to do for the
assignment.
If you want to include images media links you click the appropriate
icons.
I'm just going to write a short description of what they must do and if
you want to display these instructions on the course page you tick the box.
You can also upload additional support
documents for them if needed.
Scrolling down you can then choose when you want them to send in their work with
due dates or a cutoff date and you can also set yourself a reminder when to grade by.
The due date is important because it will display on the course overview for learners
and the Remind me to grade by will display on the
course overview for you.
What's important next then is to decide your
submission type - in other words - if you want them to upload one or several files,
you make sure that File submission is ticked and you can choose the number of
files you want them to send in and you can specify a type or type of file you want them
to upload.
If you want them merely to type an essay using
Moodle's text editor you select Online text and you can also get Moodle to set them
a word limit.
Once you've done this we can actually scroll down and save it and return to
course and we're ready to go, but it is worth exploring some of the other
options.
Click the question mark help icon against any if you need more
information, for instance in Feedback types, setting Comment in line will allow
you to type directly on the learners' work just as you would when grading on
paper.
In Submission settings you can decide if you want them to accept an agreement
that their work is their own.
In Group submission settings you can get them to
work and submit as a group and in Notifications we can choose
whether or not to be messaged when students submit and also whether or not
by default students will be messaged when we have graded their work.
If we click Grade we can see that it's possible to
choose a number out of which the assignment can be graded and it's also
possible to create our own scales which we will look at briefly in another video.
If you tick Blind marking then you won't initially be able to see which
learner has submitted which piece of work, and Marking workflow and Allocation
are useful when sharing the course with other teachers to divide up, moderate and
monitor the progress of grading.
But for now let's just save and return to course
and our assignment is ready for our students to submit.