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 report 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.
This checklist can be downloaded as an editable Word document.
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Due date is within office hours. |
| Students have guidance on what to do if something goes wrong |
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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. |
| The post date is set to the date and time you plan to release marks and feedback. |
| If the submission is a draft or confidential, “no repository” is selected. |
| If Similarity Report is required, students are only required to submit accepted file types and sizes. |
| If Similarity Report not required, “Allow submission of any file type” is enabled and students are only required to submitted accepted file types and sizes. |
| If required, anonymous submissions are selected. NB: This setting cannot be enabled retrospectively after submissions are received |
| If used, rubric has been attached and made visible to students in time to prepare their coursework. |
| If used, Grading Form has been attached and made visible to students in time to prepare their coursework. |
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Students are provided with guidance on naming conventions to ensure their coursework can be submitted to Turnitin. |
| Students are not asked to include personally identifiable information about third parties in courswework. Third parties have not agreed for Turnitin to process their information. |
| Turnitin is not used for group submissions as this is not supported. |
| A separate submission point has been set up for students with extensions/extra time. |
