Create Moodle Assignment guide

The Cut-off date is the final date that students can submit their coursework to an assignment. It is often set 24 hours after the Due date to provide students with technical problems with an opportunity to submit. Students who submit their coursework prior to the Cut-off date, but after the Due date will have their submission marked as late.

Students who submit prior to the Due date , can resubmit their assignment until the Cut-off date, but any submissions after the Due date will be marked as late.

If you do not need to provide your students with extra time to submit, set the Cut-off date to the Due date. Not enabling the Cut-off date means that:

• Students can continue to submit and resubmit their coursework.
• Students who click on their assignment to review their submission are marked as late even if they make no changes to their assignment submission.

The Cut-off date does not display to students so you need to include this information in the Description field if you want students to be aware of it.

Moodle automatically enables the Remind me to grade by date and assigns a date two weeks from the creation of the assignment. Disable the reminder or change the date to save the assignment. The Remind me to grade by date appears in Upcoming events and Timeline blocks for staff enrolled on a module to remind them of grading deadlines. The Remind me to grade by date cannot be assigned to a specific marker and it will display for all staff enrolled on the module.

If you set Require students to click submit button to Yes, students can upload draft versions of the assignment until such time as they are ready to submit. Selecting the submit button confirms their submission. They can no longer edit the assignment submission. Students often accidentally click the submit button and then need to ask the lecturer to revert the assignment to draft status to resubmit prior to the deadline.

The Require students to click submit button needs to be enabled for group assignments so that you get the option to select from the setting Require all group members submit under the Group assignment submission settings.

In addition, this setting is used by staff who take the decision to mark Moodle assignments with Turnitin enabled via Feedback Studio. This option limits the likelihood of multiple submissions from the same student being available via the Feedback Studio assignment navigation. LEaD recommend that you use Moodle's grading and feedback mechanisms for grading coursework submitted to the Moodle assignment activity rather than Feedback Studio. This is to reduce the risk of marking multiple version of the same assignment and non synching of grades.

Moodle assignments with anonymous submissions enabled do not register activity for students in the logs. This is to ensure that the assignment remains anonymous from lecturers and staff who are marking the assignment who might have access to the logs. If you require urgent access to the logs to troubleshoot a submission issue, log a request via IT Self Service Portal and our colleagues in IT can check if they can access any logs for the assignment.

Lecturers cannot review the names of students who submit to an anonymous assignment. Student names are removed and replaced with a Participant ID. Your course office team who are enrolled on the module as Programme Administrators can review student names and can check if individual students successfully submitted.

The issue could be related to the Remind me to grade by date. The Remind me to grade by date is enabled by default and the date defaults to two weeks in the future. If the deadline for the assignment is after this date, the assignment won’t save and keeps returning you to the Assignment name setting.

Disabling or setting the remind me to grade by date to a date after the Due date resolves this issue.