This page contains useful guides to help in creating assignments in Moodle and performing basic tasks related to assignments.
What is a Moodle Assignment?
A Moodle Assignment is a powerful activity that allows you to evaluate students work progressing through the term. Assignments allow students to submit work for grading and can be text-typed or uploaded files.
Moodle Assignments provide opportunities for students to learn and demonstrate their ability to achieve the course learning goals. Managing student work using Assignments includes a grading interface where you can enter grades and provide feedback to students.
Create an Assignment
The following guide provides in-depth steps on how to create an assignment. Assignments are added as an activity through the "Add an activity / resource" button.
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Assignment Settings
Understanding assignment settings is an important part of assignment construction. The following guide is a great way to understand the basic settings involved in building an assignment which works for your intended purpose. For more information regarding assignment settings, visit the following link.
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Maintaining an Assignment
After creating an assignment, it is important to understand how assignments can be maintained. The following resources can be useful for teachers to improve the assignment experience for academics in the course.
Assignment Resubmission/Extension
Students may wish to edit or submit their assignment if changes wish to be made. Extensions for assignments can also be provided for students which have been granted special consideration. The following guide describes how to grant students the ability to easily edit their submissions, and grant extensions for certain students.
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Submit an Assignment for a Student
The guide below describes how teachers can submit an assignment on behalf of a student.
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Assignment Marking
There are many tools that can assist in the efficiency in assignment marking. The following features allow for an easier marking experience for teachers and ensure results are processed within an appropriate time frame.
Marking Allocation
It is important for appropriate allocation to be assigned. Assignment marking can be divided between teachers with any desired arrangement, or more appropriately, within tutorial classes. The following guide describes how to set-up marking allocation for assignments.
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Download Multiple Assignments
Downloading multiple assignments at once provides a more efficient method in accessing student submissions. The following guide describes how to to download multiple assignment submissions.
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Upload Feedback Files
After marking is complete, additional feedback may want to be provided. Teachers can provide additional feedback in the form of feedback files. The following guide describes how to upload edited assignments as a feedback file.
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