Assignment: submitted work.
As a teacher you can have you 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 companies.
What they submit can be uploaded files
or text written directly on Moodle or as we see as 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 may be for one individual or it may be
for a group and as a teacher, you can choose whether or not to see the identities of
your learners
as you're grading it.
So if you want to add an assignment we need to turn the editing on
either by clicking the button top right or in the administration block
clicking the link Turn editing on, and then 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 the 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 set-up 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 a 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 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 submission is checked and you can choose the number of
files you want them to sent in.
If you want them merely to type in essay using Moodle's text editor
you select online text and you can also get Moodle to give them the word count.
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
in the other links.
For example in Feedback types, setting comment inline will allow you
to type directly on the learners' work, just as you would when grading on paper.
In Submission settings you can decide that 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 as a group,
and in Notifications we can choose whether or not to be messaged when students submit,
and also whether will not by default students will be messaged when we've
graded their work.
If we click Grade we can see that it's possible to choose a number
our 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 check blind marking then you won't initially be able to see
which learner has submitted which piece of work. Marking workflow and allocation are
useful
when sharing the course with other teachers to divide up,
moderate ,and keep an eye on 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
and you can see that it has its own icon which enables the learner to identify
what particular activity they are going to be doing when they click the link.