Moodle Assignment feedback guide

For Group Assignments we recommend providing grades and feedback online via the Grading page so you can use the setting - Apply grades and feedback to entire group. This setting enables lecturers to mark one student in each group and Moodle will provide a copy of the grade and feedback to all members of the group.

The Anonymous submissions setting should not be enabled for group Assignments. Lecturers can always review the membership of a group so there is no way to mark submissions anonymously.

You must hide the individual assignment grade item while you are marking to ensure that marks and feedback are released at the same time to all students. To do this:

1. Select Grades in the contextual navigation menu above the module name. The Grader report page opens
2. Open the drop-down menu on the left of the page and choose Gradebook setup.

3. Select the Edit link on the same row as the name of the grade item you are marking.
4. Select Hide.

1. Open the assignment from the module page. This opens the Grading summary page.
2. If you are responsible for marking a specific group of students, select the relevant group from the groups drop-down menu. This will ensure that you are marking the relevant work.

   

3. Select the View all submissions button to view the Submissions page.
4. If you cannot see all the submissions you expect, check to see whether a filter has been applied. Filters can follow you from one module to another, and if another user has added a filter, it may still be in place. Remove the filters to see all submissions.

• Alphabetic filter. Select All for both the First Name and Surname to clear

• Options. Open the Filter drop-down menu, select No filter to clear any existing filter.

1. After the assignment deadline, select the Grade button for a student in a group that you want to grade.
2. The grading page for the student will open.
3. Confirm that the assignment grades and feedback are hidden prior to beginning marking.
   • The grading page should display a message: This grade and feedback (if present) is hidden in the Grade Report and is not available to the student. 
   • It this message does not display, go the Grader Report and hide the assignment grade item.
4. The student's submission file will display in the Submission section at the top of the page.
5. Select the file to download and review it.

   

1. Provide a grade for the student in the Grade out of input field.
2. Add feedback in the Feedback comments field.

You can use the Feedback comments input field to provide general feedback and upload an external feedback file. 

1. Type any overall feedback for the student's submission into the Feedback comments input field.
2. To upload an external feedback file select the file icon under Feedback files and select your file to upload, or drag and drop your feedback into the feedback area.
3. Select Save and show next to move onto the next student to upload feedback and add grade in Moodle.
4. Do not uncheck the Notify students box. Your feedback and grade is hidden as you selected to hide the Grade item at the start of this process.

Audio and video feedback

You can also provide up to 2 minutes of multimedia feedback by selecting the microphone icon or the camera icon from the text editor toolbar on the Feedback comments field. These files do not produce captions so you will need to provide written feedback for students to ensure that the feedback is accessible to all students. Students are not able to download multimedia feedback provided via the text editor in the Feedback comments input field.

Tips to prepare audio feedback

• Focus on the quality of the feedback as opposed to the quality of the recording. Don’t feel like you have to correct small speaking errors by re-recording. You can correct these as you would do in conversation. Do avoid poor quality audio as this can deter from the quality of your feedback.
• Structure your feedback. Prepare a draft of the key points you would live to cover before you record.
• Try to stay positive. Even when providing developmental feedback try to end on a positive note.
• Speak clearly.
• Make explicit how the feedback can contribute to the student's development.

1. Apply grades and feedback to entire group is set to yes by default. This will apply the grade and feedback to all group members at once.
2. Do not uncheck the box alongside Notify students.
3. Scroll to the end of the screen and select Save changes.

To apply a different grade and feedback per group member then open the Apply grades and feedback to entire group drop-down menu and select No. Select Save changes to return to the assignment grading area to select the next group member.

1. Select the View all submissions link at the top left of the grading page to return to the Submissions page. 

1. Confirm that the grade and feedback has been applied to all group members.

   

2. To continue grading select the Grade button alongside a student in another group.

1. Select Grades in the contextual navigation menu above the.
2. Select the Grader Report drop-down menu and choose Gradebook setup.
3. Select the Edit link on the same row as the name of the grade item you are marking.
4. Select Show.

This makes the grades and feedback visible and generates an email to students to alert them to their released grade and feedback.