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Create Moodle Assignment guide

Moodle Assignment enables students to submit their coursework and allows the Lecturer to assess, grade and provide feedback.

About the assignment go-live checklist

Review the short list of key settings in Moodle to check before making assessment submission points available to students.

The checklist is based on frequently reported issues experienced by students when submitting assignments, and by staff when providing grades and feedback.

Many of these problems can be difficult or impossible to resolve after submission have been made, but can be easily avoided by checking key settings when creating assignments.

Setting

Due date is within office hours.

Students have guidance on what to do if something goes wrong

Course office or module leader contact details are available

If access to the assignment is restricted before the opening date, you have checked on the day that it’s accessible.
If the submission point is on a separate module, the module is available to students.
Separate submission points for students with extensions/extra time are hidden from other students with User Profile Restrictions and not groups.

Students with extensions/extra time have extensions individually applied by the course office

If being used, Turnitin similarity report has been enabled. NB: This cannot be enabled retrospectively after submissions are received.
If Turnitin is enabled and Similarity Report is required,  students are only required to submit accepted file types and sizes.
If Turnitin is enabled, any draft or confidential assignments have “no repository” selected.
If Turnitin is enabled, students are not asked to include personally identifiable information about third parties in coursework. Third parties have not agreed for Turnitin to process their information.
If Turnitin is enabled, students are provided with guidance on naming conventions to ensure their coursework can be submitted to Turnitin.
•    Avoid using any punctuation except underscore '_'.
•    File names must be under 40 characters including spaces.
If required, anonymous submissions are selected. NB: This setting cannot be enabled retrospectively after submissions are received
Timed assignments have information needed  by students before the start time has beenadded to the description, and information needed on the day is in the Instructions.
If used, rubric has been attached and made visible to students in time to prepare their coursework
If used, marking record has been attached and made visible to students in time to prepare their coursework

 

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