Moodle lets you submit assignments online or take online quizzes and your lecturers will also provide you with feedback and grades online.
As there are a variety of assignment and assessment features in Moodle, make sure you are familiar with your School's policy on assignment submission and have carefully reviewed the coursework instructions before undertaking an assignment or any kind. Make sure you know who to contact in the course office if you have any problems.
Give yourself enough time to submit your assignment online. You must submit all parts of your assignment before the assignment deadline. We recommended putting aside at least 15 minutes to submit your first assignment online. For subsequent assignments, make sure you give yourself at least 10 minutes before the deadline to submit your assignment.
If you are submitting large multimedia assignments you should also submit at least 30 mins prior to the deadline to give your file time to upload.
Moodle can be used in a number of ways for assessment. You may have to upload your completed coursework using the Moodle Assignment tool or Turnitin, assess fellow students via a peer assessment activity, complete an online quiz or even submit a video assignment. The assessment methods used in your modules will vary depending on the subject of your programme and the learning outcomes that your lecturer needs to assess.
Moodle assignment: Students can submit a variety of coursework types. Feedback is provided electronically by the lecturer using word track changes, as an online rubric or marking record or as feedback comments.
Group Assignment: You may also work on a group project and submit your group coursework to a Group Assignment.
Assignments submitted to Moodle can also be set to be submitted to Turnitin to check for similarity to assignments submitted by students in previous years at City and other UK universities.
Turnitin assignment : Students can submit a variety of coursework types. Feedback is provided via Turnitin Feedback Studio in the form or an online rubric or marking record, operational comments on the coursework or general feedback comments.
Peer Assessment: Students can submit and peer assess their group members' contribution to a group assignment. Feedback is provided as feedback comments online.
Video assignment: Students can submit multimedia (video and/or audio) coursework. Feedback is provided as feedback comments online.
Quiz: Students can complete an exam or take a practice assessment online. There are many Quiz questions including multiple choice, calculated, drag and drop onto an image, and matching. Most quizzes are automatically marked, with your lecturer adding the right answers and feedback when setting up the Quiz. Some quizzes may require you to write a longer response and in these cases the quizzes will be marked by your lecturer.
You can practise submitting a file to a Moodle Assignment, to a Turnitin assignment, a video assignment or completing a quiz so that you feel comfortable with the steps involved before you have to submit your coursework.
Practice submission areas are available for you on the Learning with Moodle module. If you are using Moodle 3.9 and modules from 2022/23 and earlier, you can still use the Moodle 3.9 Learning with Moodle module.
