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.

Submission settings provide additional requirements for students to confirm prior to submitting their coursework.

• We recommend that Require students to click the submit button stays at the default No to facilitate students re-submitting up to the Due date.
• The setting Require that students accept the submission statement will be 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.

• In the Group assignment settings, leave Students submit in groups set to No for individual assignments. 

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. 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 what to check the student's paper against. You must select at least one of the options to generate a Similarity Report.
5. 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 securely saved a copy of the confidential submission, feedback and grade -  you can remove the paper from the Turnitin submission inbox. Please note that as the paper was not saved in the Repository it is not recoverable.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. We strongly advise that you use the Moodle marking mechanisms to grade the submissions to this type of assignment. However, if you plan to mark in Feedback Studio using a rubric or marking record, you should attach it using the Attach a rubric to this assignment setting. The rubric is only visible to the lecturer who attached the rubric via the Assignment settings. All markers will be able to use the rubric when marking via Feedback Studio. Rubrics should be available to students before they submit.

Related guidance

• In the Grade settings, select the Type of grade and the Grading method. The most common settings are points and simple direct grading.
  • The other grading methods are Rubrics and Marking records.
• Set Anonymous submissions to Yes to enable anonymous marking.
• Use Marking workflow is an optional workflow that requires grades to go through a series of stages before they're released to students. 
• 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.

Related guidance

For anonymous submissions with multiple markers, review the guidance to facilitate multiple markers online. As the lecturers cannot view the names of the students, students will need to be allocated to lecturers for marking.

Turnitin are currently investigating an issue where the Last modified (grade) column in the Moodle Assignment grading table is being updated to the date/time on which the student closes their feedback after reviewing it in Turnitin Feedback Studio for at least 30 seconds. Please be assured that the grade has not been modified.  

This is only impacting on Moodle Assignment activities where Turnitin has been enabled and marking has been completed via Turnitin Feedback Studio. 

• Impact on staff: The Last modified (grade) column in the Moodle assignment grading table may display an incorrect date. 
• Impact on students: On the Moodle assignment submission status screen, the Graded by name is updated to the student’s name rather than the marker’s after the student reviews their feedback in Feedback Studio for at least 30 seconds.

Hide grader identity from students

There is a work round for this issue. You can hide the grader's identify from students. You will find this in the Assignment settings.

1. Open the Assignment
2. Select Settings from the contextual navigation menu
3. Scroll down to Grade settings
4. Set Hide grader identity from students to Yes
5. Scroll down and select Save and display.

Now no grader identities are visible to students