Create Moodle Assignment guide

It is possible to set up group assignments using the Assignment activity. Before using group assignments, you will need to set up and apply groupings in addition to groups. This is because group submissions can disappear if groups are used and a student is in one group and is subsequently added to another group. You can find out more about setting up groups and groupings in our Manage Group guide.

The settings for group assignments are more complex that for other assignment types. We recommend you take the time to review the information below on how group assignments can be set up prior to creating a group assignment.

Due to the way that groups are managed in Moodle, it is not possible to have an anonymous group assignment as the group name displays in the assignment submission area. This means that lecturers who may have set up the groups can easily differentiate between the submissions. Staff can view groups and group members by selecting Participants in the contextual navigation menu and choosing Groups from the enrolled users drop-down menu. 

• Moodle Assignment's Group submission settings allows you to select a grouping for your assignment. If students are in more than one group on the module, or may be added to another group later, you need to create and select the relevant grouping to manage the group assignment.
• For example, James Jones is in Group Assignment Group A and Lisa's Marking Group on the module. If you don't create a specific assignment grouping (shown in the image as Group Assignment), James will have the option of submitting an assignment to two separate groups, Group Assignment Group A and Lisa's Marking Group.
• If a particular grouping is selected here and all students are not in groups, then the assignment grading screen will display any other groups and non-grouped students in the default group.
• If None is selected and all students are not in groups, then the assignment will display the names of all the groups and put any non-grouped students into a default group.

If your group assignment requires all group members to submit their assignment, this setting will only only becomes selectable if you set Require students to click the submit button to Yes under the Submission settings.

If Require all group members submit is set to No:

• All members of the group have the ability to submit a file on behalf of the group.
• All group members can replace the submitted file with a new one at any point until the Due date.
• Once the Due date is reached the submitted file is automatically assumed to have been agreed as the final submission by each of the group members.

If Require all group members submit is set to Yes:

• All members of the group have the ability to submit a file on behalf of the group.
• Each group member must select the Submit assignment button to confirm that this is the final version of the assignment as agreed with the group.
• When one student submits the assignment, the other members of the group will be able to see who still has to select the Submit assignment button.
• Once a group member has selected Submit assignment, they cannot change their mind and replace the submitted file with any other file even if the Due date has not yet been reached.
• The assignment is not deemed to be submitted until each of the group members has selected the Submit assignment button.
• Group members who have not selected Submit assignment can replace the submitted file with a new file. If the last member of the group to submit, changes the file submission and selects Submit assignment, other members of the group will not be able to change it. The group will need to contact the lecturer or course officer to revert the assignment to Draft.

• If the assignment is reverted to draft after it has been submitted, the submission status for each student in the group will revert to Draft. Only the student whose record the lecturer selected in the grading action screen to revert the submission will need to re-submit.
• The other students will see a Draft status but they will not be included in the list of students who need to submit.
• If the lecturer then reverts more students in the group, the status for all students in the group will still be Draft but only students whose submission status was selected to revert the submission will need to re-submit, and not the others in the group.
• When all those students who need to re-submit have re-submitted, the status of the assignment in the assignment grading screen will be displayed as Submitted for all members of the group.