Create Moodle Assignment guide

Feedback types controls how you can provide feedback. In most cases, you will not need to change these settings unless you have an online text submission. Set Comment inline to Yes for online text submissions.

1. Set Require students to click the submit button to Yes if you want the option to Require all group members to submit from the Group assignment settings.
2. The setting Require that students accept the submission statement is enabled by default on assignments. Do not change this setting as it is important that students understand what is required of them in regards to academic integrity prior to submitting an assignment.

1. Set the Students submit in groups option to Yes to create a group assignment.
2. Set Require group to make submission to Yes.
   • When a student who is not in a group attempts to submit Moodle will display a message You're not a member of any group; please contact your lecturer. The student will not be able to submit the assignment.
3. Make your selection for Require all group members submit
   • If Yes is selected, then the assignment will not be classed as submitted until all members of the group have clicked the Submit assignment button.
   • This setting becomes selectable if you set Require students to click the submit button to Yes under the Submission settings.
4. Select a Grouping in the Grouping for student groups drop-down menu.

1. From the the Enable Turnitin setting select Yes.
2. To allow students to view their Similarity Report, change the Display Similarity Reports to Students to Yes.
3. Change Allow submission of any file type? to Yes if students are required to submit a variety of file types. Not all file types will generate a Similarity Report. 
4. Select Where to Store Student Papers. 
   • The default option is Standard Repository which is suitable for most submissions. 
   • No Repository can be chosen for formative submissions or for a confidential projects/commercially sensitive dissertations which should not be included in future similarity searches. For confidential submissions, once the assessment process is completed and you have downloaded and saved a copy of the confidential submission, you can log a ticket on IT Self Service Portal to request that the assignment is removed from Turnitin. Please quote the Turnitin ID number in your request.
5. Select the Report Generation Speed. This setting controls how quickly and how often Similarity Reports are generated.
   • Generate reports immediately (students can resubmit until the due date, After 3 submission, reports generate after 24 hours). Similarity Reports for the initial submission by each student are generated immediately. Students may resubmit as often as they wish until the Due date. Similarity Reports for the third or subsequent submission will require 24 hours before processing. Only the latest submission is available to the lecturer or student. Previous versions are removed. Student submissions will be compared against their peers submissions within the assignment on the Due date, which may then result in a change in the similarity index.
   • Generate reports on due date (students can resubmit until due date): Similarity Reports will not be generated for any submission until the Due date of the assignment. Students can resubmit as needed until the Due date and time but no Similarity Reports are generated. 
   • Generate reports immediately (students cannot resubmit): This option is not recommended as students are unable to resubmit and submissions are not checked against each other. Submissions must be deleted by the lecturer/course officer to enable resubmission. Similarity Reports for all submissions will be generated immediately. Students cannot resubmit papers.
6. The remainder of the options enable you to exclude certain searches from a Similarity Report and we do not recommend that any of these options are changed. These Similarity Report should be filtered in the Feedback Studio during the marking process instead.
7. You cannot use Feedback Studio for providing feedback on a group assignment so you can skip the Rubric option.

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In most cases, you will not need to change the Notifications settings.

• If you want all Lecturers and Programme Administrators on a module to be notified via email of late submissions change Notify graders about late submissions to Yes.
• The Default setting for Notify students is Yes. Do not change this setting as it controls the generation of an email to students on release of grades and feedback.

1. In the Grade settings, select the type of grade and the grading method. The most common settings are point and simple direct grading.
   • The other grading methods are Rubrics and Marking records.
2. Anonymous submissions aren't possible with groups as the lecturer can see the membership of each groups.
3. Use Marking workflow is an optional workflow that requires grades to go through a series of stages before they're released to students. 
4. You can choose to Hide grader identity from students.
   • This option might be required if course officers are uploading feedback received from lecturers.

1. From the Common module settings, you can set Availability to Show or Hide on course page.
2. You do not need to change the Group mode.
3. Select Save and return to module.

You can use the Restrict access settings to control the availability of content and activities based on one or more conditions, including date and group. 

Activity completion allows you to set completion criteria for a specific activity or resource.

Activities or resources with a completion criteria display a circle next to them in the Module index. The circle turns green (and is filled in) when the student meet the criteria. On the main module page, a tick and the word "done" appears against the item when the student meets the criteria. This helps students manage their progress on a module and staff can easily review student engagement and progress against key activities.

You can combine Restrict access and Activity completion to provide structured pathways through your module.

Apply the settings

1. Open the activity or resource.
2. Select Settings from the contextual navigation menu above the module name. This opens the activity settings.
3. Change the settings required.
4. Select Save and return to module to save any changes made.

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