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Annotate Student Assignment Submissions

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When students submit files (Word documents, presentation slides, graphics, etc), they will automatically be converted into PDFs that you can annotate. You can add comments, highlight, or draw on student work within Moodle.

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• Open the assignment you want to grade.
• Click  Grade .

• Add comments (which can be saved to a comments bank for re-use)
• Draw freehand or use shapes
• Add stamps (checkmark, red X, etc)
• Add a grade and summary feedback on the grade panel
• Navigate between student submissions

• If you are happy with your annotations, click  Save . To start over, click  Reset .

• You can click the arrows to navigate to the next student submission, search for a student submission by name, or click the filter to quickly view and jump to submissions.

What do the annotation tools do?

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Instructors can mark and  leave digital comments on  Assignment submissions within Moodle by using the Annotate PDF  feedback option. Annotate PDF allows you to   highlight, write or type comments, add stamps, and post notes in PDF documents submitted by students using any device with a web browser.

Before you start , you will need access to the following:

• An Instructor of record , Other editing teacher , or Non-editing teacher role in a Bryn Mawr Moodle course  

Set Up the Assignment

WARNING: Your Assignment must be set up to require PDF file submissions and use the  Annotate PDF feedback type before students start submitting work. (You won't be able to make changes after that point.) 

• Create your Assignment if you haven't already (c lick +Add an activity or resource ; then s elect Assignment ).
• Open the Assignment Settings page (click the Assignment to open it, then click  S ettings in the top menu). 
• Check the File Submissions  box (required).
• Set Maximum number of uploaded files to 1 (recommended).
• Type .pdf in the Accepted file types box (required).

• Under Feedback Types , check Feedback Comments and Annotate PDF.

• Adjust the remaining settings if desired, then click   Save and Display  or  Save and return to course.

Help students submit PDFs

It is increasingly common for students to submit coursework for K-12 courses through Google drive or docs, and some college   students may not know how to save, export, or print files as PDFs. However, it is easy to do using software that is widely available to students and a good skill to learn before entering the workforce!

These Ask Athena articles may help: 

• Save a file as a pdf explains how to save documents as PDF files using commonly used software.
• Scan and copy with printers  explains how to use the multifunction copier/printers in libraries and public spaces on campus . (For Bryn Mawr users, scans are saved as PDFs to their H:// drive by default.) 
• Office Lens: Scan papers or documents with your smartphone explains how to use this free smartphone app to create multi-page PDF documents using the phone’s camera.

Mark using annotate PDF

• Click the Assignment to open it.
• Click Grade .

• Enter the Grade and any overall Feedback comments in the fields provided . (You can include images, files and media clips in you comments, see  Moodle: Use the text editor  for details.)
• If you enabled the Feedback files type in your assignment settings, use the  Feedback files  menu to upload them.

• Click Save Changes as you go and Save and Show Next to finish marking a submission and move on to the next one.

Exporting copies of marked submissions

If you want to keep copies of annotated submission for your records:

• Click the Assignment to open it.  
• Click the titles of PDFs you want to download in the Annotate PDF  column.
• They will download to your browser's default Downloads folder; from there you can move them to a more permanent storage location. 

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Documentation

Note: You are currently viewing documentation for Moodle 1.9. Up-to-date documentation for the latest stable version is available here: Assignment submissions .

• Assignment submissions
• Upload a single file
• Online text
• Offline activity
• Advanced uploading of files (1.7)
• Adding/editing an assignment
• Assignment details (pre-1.7)
• Assignment permissions
• Viewing an assignment
• Assignment FAQ

To view the submitted assignment, the teacher should click on the assignment activity they wish to review. Then click on "View 'x' submitted assignments" link in the upper right corner.

• 1 Overview of submissions page
• 2.1 Basic grading assignments
• 2.2 Quick grading assignments
• 3 Tutorial on feedback and grading

Overview of submissions page

The submissions page contains a table with headings:

• First name and Surname (along with the photograph)
• Grade (for the submitted assignment)
• Comment (the feedback information you have written in the feedback field while grading the assignment)
• Last modified (Student) (the date of the last modification of the assignment by the student)
• Last modified (Teacher) (the date of the last modification of the assignment by the teacher)
• Status (with which you can move to the page where you grade the submitted assignment or, in case it's been graded, update the grade and/or the comment)
• Final grade

Above the table there is an alphabetical index, which helps you narrow down the number of students shown on one page only to those whose surname (or name) starts with the same letter. That is particularly helpful in case of a large number of course participants.

The list of submissions may be sorted by clicking on a particular heading. Clicking twice on the same heading sorts the list in the opposite order. If the table is too large then columns may be collapsed by clicking on the Hide icon next to a particular column heading.

By default, 10 submissions are shown per page, though this may be changed at the bottom of the page.

Grade submission

Basic grading assignments.

To grade or mark a submission, click on the Grade link opposite a particular student's name. A new window will open containing a feedback area.

Once you've reviewed the student's assignment, pick the grade for the assignment from the dropdown list. (You set the scale when you created the assignment.) Below the grade scale, you can type comments regarding their work. When you're done, click "Save changes" or "Save and show next".

Quick grading assignments

You may prefer to use "quick grading" by checking the box at the bottom of the submissions page. This enables you to quickly grade multiple assignments all on one page, rather than one by one in a new window. Simply add the grades and comments then when you're done, click "Save all my feedback" at the bottom of the page.

Tutorial on feedback and grading

• Click directly on the assignment whose submissions you wish to mark.
• Click on View submitted assignments (top right)
• I find it useful to set the submissions per page quite large so as not to have to keep opening new pages to see more students.
• Normally you have to click on Grade on the right to open a new page where you can view the submission and enter marks and type some feedback text. If you Allow quick grading you can do this on the same line as the submission is listed.
• Save preferences if you change either of these. For the rest of this, I will assume that you have enabled Allow quick grading.
• On the line across for each person, if they have submited, you will see a link to a file. If you click on the file it will either open in a new browser window (if your browser is capable of viewing the document), or it will ask you if you wish to save to disc or open using the appropriate application program.
• Once you have viewed their submission, you can then indicate a mark from the drop down list, and/or enter your comments in the box.
• You can do this for many students, however the marks are not stored until you select Save all my feedback either at the top or the bottom of the list of student. It is advisable not to leave too long a time before doing this. After you do this, all students who you left feedback for are sent an email to let them know that there is feedback available for them.
• You might note that if you have a long list of students you can sort in many ways, firstname, lastname etc by clicking on the blue link at the top of each column. A useful way is to sort by "Last modified Student" (get the arrow pointing upwards - ie. latest first) which will show the most recently submitted. If you allow more than one submission it is also useful to compare "Last modified student" date with "Last modified Lecturer" date as you can spot who has resubmitted since you last commented.
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Making the most of Moodle’s Assignments for formative and summative assessment

Moodle’s assignment activities are easy to set up and offer many possibilities to create unique learning experiences for your students.

The Assignment activity in Moodle allows students to submit work for their teachers to grade or assess. The learners’ submissions may be text typed online or uploaded files of any format that the teachers specify. While creating an Assignment is quite straightforward, this activity has several settings that educators can combine to create unique experiences for their learners. 

Moodle Assignment for formative and summative assessment

Because it has so many combinations of configuration, the Assignment activity can be used both for formative assessment and summative evaluation. The table below outlines the goals and characteristics of each type of assessment: 

In formative assessment the goal is to monitor student learning therefore the assignments should be set to be always available, without necessarily being graded, allowing additional attempts, with no pass grade required (if it is graded). The  activity completion is usually set to “view” or “submit”. An formative assignment such as this often gets a 0% weight in the gradebook. 

In summative assessment, the goal is to evaluate student learning via assessment, thus a summative assignment is usually  set up with clear start, end and cut-off dates. It will be graded, with additional attempts to re-open the assessment set manually. Summative assessments are usually set with a required pass grade and the activity completion linked to requiring a “grade”. Summative assignments often have a weight higher than 20% in the gradebook.

Moodle Assignment submissions

There are many ways to combine submission types and settings in Assignment activity to achieve your teaching and learning goals or simply streamline your class management:

Assignments with no submission required These are assignments where learners don’t have to submit anything to complete the assessment. While this may sound counterintuitive, this type of Assignment can be used, for instance, for offline assessment -use it as an attendance sheet on a field trip- or for example, to assess a face-to-face speaking Assignment where learners really don’t have anything to submit. 

Assignments with online text submission With this type of Assignment submissions, learners add their work directly into the Assignment activity using the Atto editor, a rich text editor that allows learners to write text, add images and even record audio or video files. For this and for all other submission types, you can enable an option to allow learners to work in draft versions of their Assignment before sending the final submission.

Assignments with file submission This type of submission for Assignments requires learners to submit a file -teachers can define its format and size- for teachers to evaluate. To streamline the grading process, teachers can download all submissions at once, including a grading worksheet that displays the user name, email and submission status and allows teachers to add a grade and feedback in comments – and then bulk-upload all assessments back to Moodle, including a separate feedback file for each submission.

Group assignments in Moodle Collaborative learning is at the heart of Moodle LMS, so Moodle Assignments can easily be set up to be submitted as a group. Teachers can set these Assignments up so that only one of the group members has to submit the file, or make it mandatory for each team member to make the submission. Favourite tip: Our Moodle Academy team recommends combining this type of Assignment with a peer evaluation to know how the experience was for each of the group members.

Grading Moodle Assignments

Moodle Assignments support two main types of grading: simple direct grading and advanced grading. The first group includes grading done through numerical scales, custom scales (for example, stars or words like weak , satisfactory , strong , etc) or no grading at all. Advanced grading methods in Moodle include rubrics and marking guides, and we’ll look at them in more detail:

Moodle Assignment: assessment with marking guides In this type of grading, the teacher defines a series of criteria and assigns a maximum amount of marking points to each. When assessing learners’ assignments, the teachers provide both a numerical mark and a comment for each of the criteria. For this type of grading, you can make the criteria and maximum marking points available for learners to see – this helps them know what’s expected from them and what they need to cover in their submission. Favourite tip: Use ‘frequently used comments’ to speed up your grading process and to ensure that your grading is consistent.

Moodle Assignment: assessment with rubrics For grading with rubrics, teachers create a set of criteria with several levels of achievement, all displayed on a table. Sharing the rubric with learners is important, as it lets learners know how they’ll be assessed. For each submission, the rubric will be displayed to teachers, who then can select the level of accomplishment for each of the criteria just by clicking on it, as well as leave written feedback if necessary.

Moodle Assignment: assessment with marking workflow When you set up a marking workflow for an Assignment, it means that learners’ work can be assessed by several teachers. You can manually design the workflow and define the sequence of states (eg not marked , in marking , marked ), as well as allocate marking to another teacher.

This content has been extracted from the Moodle Academy webinar Assessment: exploring Assignments, facilitated by Moodle Education Advisor Anna Krassa. Watch the full webinar on our Moodle Academy site to see 7 real life examples on how you can combine submission types and grading types with availability and different types of feedback to create the right Assignment for your teaching and learning goals .

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You can place text comments, annotations, and stamps directly on submitted PDF assignments within the detailed grading view. If students have uploaded a PDF file to the assignment area, the PDF will appear in the main part of the detailed grading page. 

Using the Comments Feature

Comments work like post-it notes being directly placed on an assignment. You can type text into the note to leave a comment.

1. Click the Comments button. 

2. Place your cursor over the page where you want to make a comment. 

3. Hold down your left mouse button and drag to make a comment box. Your cursor will move inside the comment box as soon as you let go of the button.

1. Hover your mouse over or click the comment you wish to delete to expand the comment. 

2. Next, click on the arrow icon in the upper-right corner of the comment. 

3. Select Delete Comment from the drop down menu. 

Using the Annotation Tools

You can annotate an assignment with many different shapes, highlights, or basic pen marks. 

Create an Annotation

1. Click the annotation color (ink drop button in the image above) to select the color you wish to use. 

2. Click the annotation tool you want to use (from left to right in image above):

• Pen – freehand “write” notes or other markup
• Line – draw a straight line
• Rectangle – draw a box
• Oval – draw a circle
• Highlight – put a transparent color over text, like a highlighter pen

3. Place your cursor on the portion of the text you want to annotate. 

4. Hold down your left mouse button and drag your cursor to make the annotation.

Delete an Annotation

1. Click the Select button on the Comment and Annotation bar.  

2. Click the annotation you want to delete. The annotation will highlight and a little trash can icon will appear. 

3. Click the trash can icon.

Using the Stamp Tool

The stamp tool will place a selected image on the assignment for more visual feedback. 

Creating a Stamp

1. Click on the stamp button on the Comments and Annotation bar. A drop down menu of stamps will appear. 

2. Next, click the stamp icon you want to use.

3. Click on the paper where you want to place the stamp.

4. To create a larger stamp, press down and hold your left mouse button and drag to the size you want. 

Deleting a Stamp

1.Click the Select tool.  

2.Click on the stamp you want to delete. The stamp will highlight and a little trash can icon appears. 

3.Click the trash icon to delete the stamp.

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The Moodle Assignment: Collect and grade submitted work

The Moodle Assignment module lets you collect student assignments—including research papers, spreadsheets, presentations, photographs, and short audio or video recordings—online. The video below is a great resource for seeing how to add an assignment and to understand many of the most useful options. A text version of the information, along with some specific recommendations for Haverford faculty follows the video.

Add the assignment

Configure the assignment.

Now you need to configure assignment settings. By selecting the correct options, you will be able to grade student and give feedback the way you want. You can generally accept the defaults, but we recommend changing a few of the options to make submission easy for students and grading easy for you.

General settings

You must fill in the general setting to give your assignment a name. You need to enter an Assignment name –the name that students see on the main course page.

You can also give an assignment Description to explain the assignment to your student. What are your expectations for the assignment? What file format, if any, should they use? If you are allowing drafts, what do you expect in the drafts and what do you expect in the final project?

You can also upload instructions, templates, or other relevant files in the Additional files area.

Availability

OPTIONAL: Next, you will see an Availability section. Use this to give your students due dates. Date information from your assignments will flow to the Moodle calendar. Students can see upcoming assignments  on their Moodle dashboard.

You can also set a “remind me to grade by” date; this will appear on your dashboard.

Submission types

OPTIONAL:  In the Submission types area, determine what your students will be submitting. If you leave the defaults, students will submit one file, up to 5 MB in size. This works for many types of assignments. However , if you have any of the scenarios below, you will want to change the defaults.

Do you want students to submit a short reading response, or other short entry, directly into the assignment text area? Check the “ online text ” box.

Do you want to set a word limit for online submissions? In addition to checking the “ online text ” box, enable and set a “ Word limit .”

Do you want student to submit draft copies of their submission? Increase the “ maximum number of uploaded files .”

Will students submit documents over 20MB in size? 20MB is a pretty large file. Hopefully, students will be uploading files much smaller, to avoid taxing our system resources. If 20MB is not large enough, contact [email protected] and see if there is a better tool for your needs.

Do you want students to submit assignments in a particular format, such as a PDF, Microsoft Word format, Microsoft Excel, MP3 audio file, etc.? Click the “ Choose ” button and select your desired file type for student submissions or type the file extension name into the box. Require PDFs (“.pdf”) if you want to mark up assignments directly in the Moodle gradebook.

Feedback types

OPTIONAL:  In the Feedback types area, state what type of feedback you will give students–and how you will give that feedback. All options should be checked by default. However, if any options are unchecked that may prevent you from delivering feedback in your preferred way.

Check the “ Feedback comments ” box to give comments on each submission.

Check the “ Offline grading worksheet ” box, if you want to enter grades in Excel and upload them to Moodle.

Check the “ Feedback files ” box, if you want to return student submissions with your markups, or submit other types of feedback files such as voice comments.

Set “ Comment inline ” to yes , for an easy way to comment on text students submit directly into the assignment tool. This is only useful if you enable the “Online Text” submission type.

More options

In addition to the settings above, many other options are available. A few options:

• group assignments
• blind marking , to hide student identities when you grade
• activity completion tracking, so you can make other activities in your course dependent upon this assignment, or just help students see where they are in the course

Once you have the desired settings, click the button to save and return to course .

Grade submissions and provide feedback

Once you have created your assignment activity and students have submitted work, you will want to collect and grade student submissions. You can either download all the assignments, grade them offline, and then upload feedback files with comments or mark papers directly in Moodle.

Download all submissions and mark papers outside of Moodle

The Moodle Assignment module lets you bulk downloaded student submissions for organization and offline grading. This can be helpful in a number of situations:

• Organize and locally store submitted assignments
• Provide assignments feedback using by marking-up student submissions using tools available in desktop or tablet apps such MS Word, Adobe Acrobat Pro, Explain Everything, etc.
• Efficiently enter grades and general feedback comments using Excel, which can be faster the Moodle online grading interface
• Grade assignments anywhere; internet access is not needed

It’s not hard to use the offline grading option, but it has a number of steps both within Moodle and your local computer operating system. Watch this video on off-line marking for more information.

Mark directly within Moodle

• Enter the student’s grade.
• Type or record feedback comments.
• Download the submission to look at it or annotate it outside of Moodle.
• Mark up a PDF submission.
• Return a file with your annotations or comments.
• Save the grade and continue to the next student.
• Depending upon what the student submitted, you may want to change the layout of your marking window.
• You can also select a different student from the upper right drop-down menu.
• By default, students are notified when you grade, but you can uncheck that option before saving.

Moodle Support

• Course Creation and Management
• Participants
• Grading Methods
• Advanced Grading Methods Types

Activity Completion

This guide is designed to help answer basic questions about Moodle. If you cannot find the answer to your question here, submit a ticket to TopDesk detailing the question or issue you are experiencing. Please be sure to include as much information as you can, including

• The course name and code
• The term this course is in
• Any user's full name and email address (if applicable)

Help is available on a limited basis. One-on-one meetings will be limited to 40 minutes. Please come prepared with specific questions and manageable goals ahead of booking a meeting time. Before booking an appointment, ensure that you have both viewed your Moodle course and looked through this guide to see if your question is answered here.

Please note that instructors are ultimately responsible for creating their own Moodle courses and the information contained in them. 

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Grades in Moodle

There are many different options for marking and grading in Moodle. This document will explore many of those options, as well as link to supporting documentation for more support. 

Grader Report

The grader report is where you are able to see all the participants in a course as well as their grades and all graded items. Any graded items you have added in your Moodle course (such as assignments or quizzes) will appear in the grade book. You can edit the grades from the gradebook by clicking on the activity title at the top of each column. This will take you to the activity grading page where you can add grades to the activity. Alternatively, you can turn on editing mode by clicking on the button in the top right corner. This will allow you to manually adjust the grades from the gradebook itself. You can also click the gear icon next to the grade you'd like to adjust to get more details on the grade and leave additional feedback. 

Gradebook Set Up

Gradebook set up is how you will adjust the grade aggregation and weightings in your course, as well as create course categories. To access it, click on  Grader Report  drop down menu and select  Gradebook Setup

Once you are in the gradebook setup, you will see all of the graded activities you have assigned in your Moodle course. The default on Moodle is that all of these courses are weighed equally, and the course total is the total value of points awarded for all assignments. For example, if you have 3 assignments in your course that are all graded out of 10, then the course total will be 30. Moodle has different ways to aggregate grades in a course. They include:

• Mean of Grades: The sum of all grades divided by the total number of grades. 
• Weighted mean of grades: The sum of all grades are divided by the number of items. 
• Simple Weighted Mean of Grades: The sum of all grades are divided by the number of possible points.
• Natural: The sum of all grades are divided by the total number of possible points. No item is weighed more than another.

Many courses are set up with categories that are weighed differently in the final grade. For example, a syllabus may look like this:

• Quizzes: 30%
• Participation: 15%
• Presentation: 30%
• Reading Response: 25%

Moodle has the capability to put these different grading categories into the gradebook and assign them weights that correspond with the weights in the syllabus. To add a new category, follow the steps below:

• Click on Add a Category , located next to the drop-down menu from the gradebook setup.
• Enter a name for the category; it is best to have it correspond to the name in the syllabus so it is clear. To use the example above, we would name our first category "Quizzes"
• Set the aggregation method to  simple weighted mean of grades . 
• Scroll down to the  category total  settings and set the maximum grade to what the category percentage is worth. In our quizzes category, the maximum grade would be 30.
• Save the changes - you will now have a new category in your gradebook. Repeat these steps until you have created all categories for your course. 
• To ensure that grades are calculated correctly, you will need to change the aggregation method of your course as well. Find the title of your course in the gradebook - it will be located at the top with a file folder to its left. It should be further to the left than all other categories listed underneath it. Click on the  edit  link and  edit settings.  Change the aggregation method to  simple weighted mean of grades .
• You can add graded items to these categories from the gradebook setup page by checking the box to the right of the assignment's listing under the heading that says "select". Scroll down to the bottom of the page to where it says "Move selected items to" and use the dropdown menu to select the category you want to move your grades to. You will be asked if you want to leave the page - click  leave page.  The assignments you selected will now be indented underneath the category you wanted to put them in. 
• Alternatively, you may create an assignment from the main page on your moodle course and designate which grading category you'd like the item to be assigned to in the activity setting page  
• To edit any categories, select the  edit  in the gradebook setup. You can then change the aggregation method or maximum grade here.

There are many ways to aggregate and weigh grades that may be different than the steps outline here. Depending on how you are weight your grades, you may find other options work better for your class in particular. Feel free to explore the resources below to learn more about the gradebook. Please remember, that ultimately it is instructor responsibility to ensure that grades are entered and weighed properly. 

Unbound Ed Gradebook

Moodle Doc - Gradebook

Moodle Doc - Grade Settings

Simple Grading

There are many ways to grade in Moodle. If you are grading an activity that has grading enabled, such as an assignment, you can grade from the activity itself. You can click on the assignment and select "Grade" button above the grading summary

You'll be able to view student's submissions and leave comments, notes, and feedback, as well as grade directly from the assignment. By default, the grade will be set to a point value out of 100, which you can adjust in the assignment settings. Once a grade has been submitted, you have the option to notify the student of their grade by selecting "Notify student" at the bottom of the page. The grade will appear in the student's gradebook. 

Alternatively, you may also grade directly from the grade reporter. This is a good grading method if there is no assignment on Moodle that corresponds to it (such as a presentation, or participation). Underneath the  Grades  tab, you will have a list of all participants and the items that have been entered into the gradebook, either automatically or manually. You can manually enter in the grade for an assignment by enabling edit mode and entering the total point value into the solid-line box on the left. The dashed-line box on the right can be used for comments or notes. 

Further Reading

For more information on simple grading, check out the resources below:

Moodle Docs - Grading Quick Guide

Advanced grading

Advanced gradingmethods allow for a more complex assessment. Using either a rubric or a marking guide allows you to grade according to a set of standards within the activity itself. The grade will be calculated and compiled within this grading screen and automatically applied to the gradebook. You must configure an activity module to use an advanced grading method. If the activity supports advanced grading, you will find it in the settings form under "grades". You can choose how you would like to grade from the three options:

• Simple Direct Grading: The default grading method; no advanced grading methods applied
• Marking Guide: The instructor designs a set of criteria that they can comment on when grading an assignment. The form totals the score to calculate a grade according to the settings
• Rubric: The instructor designs a set of criteria and evaluation scale that corresponds to point values. 

You can review more information on rubrics and grading guides below.

Marking Guide

Rubrics are often used in grading and allow the opportunity to provide clear and consistent feedback to students about their assignment. Rubrics have a set of criteria that must be met, and different levels of achievement of each criteria. The final score is calculated by comparing the score received against the worst and best scores possible.

To add a rubric to your assignment, follow the steps below:

• Click on the assignment you want to add a rubric to on your course page
• Click on the "Advanced Grading" tab in the assignment
• Ensure that the active grading method is set to "Rubric", and then select "Define new grading form from scratch"

To set up your rubric, first give your rubric a name and a description. Below the description box you will have the the skeleton of a table. The criterion that you are evaluating will be placed in the columns, and the level assigned to each criteria will be entered into the rows. 

Enter in the criteria and the points you want assigned to each level, as seen in the example below. You can add more points or criteria and adjust the amount of points assigned to each.  Adjust the rubric options below and then hit "save rubric and make it ready"

When ready to grade, follow the same steps as you normally would for simple direct grading. You will now have the rubric in the assignment that you are grading. You can select the achievement level for each criteria, and then hit "save changes" to calculate the grade which will appear in the grade book.

For more information on using the rubric, check out the following resources:

Moodle Doc - Rubric

The marking guide is similar to the rubric, but more streamlined and simplistic. Like a rubric, there is a set of criteria where instructors can leave comments and a score on student work. However, each criteria only has one comment box, rather than different score levels you can assign as with a rubric.

To add a marking guide to an assignment, follow the steps below:

Give your marking guide a name and a description. Below the description box you will be able to add and edit criteria, create descriptions for students and for markers, and a maximum score for each criteria. If the total score you set for the marking guide is different than the maximum grade set in your activity, then the maximum score in the marking guide will be scaled to the max grade in the activity and rounded to the nearest available grade.  You can also create frequently used comments to make marking easier. You can see an example of this below:

Once you have created your marking guide, select "Save marking guide and make it ready" to begin using it. Now when you grade the assignment, you will be able to grade it according to the marking guide. 

For more information on using the marking guide, check out the following resources:

Moodle Doc - Marking Guide

Activity Completion allows the instructor to set completion criteria for specific activities or resources. It can be a useful tool when tracking whether students have done necessary viewings or activities, without a grade necessarily needing to be attached. Activity completion can also be used to ensure that certain aspects of a course are only available once a particular activity or resource is marked as complete first. To enable completion tracking, go to the settings of the activity or resource and open the menu for activity completion. You can select how you would like the activity to be completed - whether by a student or whether certain criteria have been completed. The criteria range from simply viewing the resource, to needing to get a certain grade. You can adjust the "grade to pass" by opening the "grade" menu and entering in a value students must attain for a grade to be a pass. 

You can use activity completion tracking to restrict access to other assignments. For example, if you want to ensure that students view a resource before attempting a quiz, or only making a quiz visible if students did not pass a previous assignment. Choose the activity you'd like to restrict, and then select "Restrict access". You will have many options for how you would like to restrict access, which you can set up according to your needs. 

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Moodle lets instructors create Assignments with a variety of settings. For example:

• Your instructor can control whether you can make only one submission or whether you can you can re-submit files, or if you can upload files after deadlines have passed.
• Some assignment types let your instructor return a submission with comments for revisions. You can upload your revisions by returning to the link for the assignment.
• Assignments can be for "offline" activities such as a classroom presentation or printed paper, in which case you will not submit anything on Moodle, but your instructor may use the Moodle assignment for grading and feedback.

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You may be asked to attach files or enter text directly into a text box. Note : If your instructor asks you to upload a file, they should inform you what file format you should submit (e.g., .pdf, .doc, .pptx or .docx). 

• Links to assignments can always be found in the sections down the center of the Moodle course page. If your instructor has added the Activities block to the course, you can also locate assignments by selecting the Assignment link in the Activities block, which can usually be found on the right side of the Moodle course  page. 
• Select the link to the assignment. The Assignment page  will open, showing instructions and your submission status (due date, grading status, time remaining, grade, etc.) for this assignment.
• Select  Add submission . The Assignment submission  page will open. Depending on how your instructor set up the assignment, you may have the option to submit file(s), enter text in a text entry box or both.
• When pasting text into Moodle, for best results, paste the content as unformatted text.
• For spell checking to work, it must be enabled in your browser. Once enabled, to see spelling suggestions press and hold the  Control key on your keyboard and click OR right-click on your mouse (whether you are using a Mac or PC system will determine which operation will work).
• Arrange your computer desktop windows so that you can view both your browser window and the files on your computer (e.g., in an open folder or on your desktop).

• To upload a file from your computer, click Upload a file (at left), then below  Attachment,  select Choose file . Browse your computer and select a file, then click Open. The file name will appear next to the Choose file  button.
• To upload a file from Google Drive , see Upload Files from Your Google Drive to Moodle .
• (Optional) If you want to rename your file in the File Picker, enter the new name in the Save as field.
• Click Upload this file . The File Picker will close and an icon for your uploaded file will appear in the Files area .
• Once your file(s) appear(s) in the Files submission area, click  Save changes . Note: You should receive an email at your umass.edu mail address confirming you have submitted the assignment.
• If your instructor allows you to revise your submission, you'll see an Edit submission button on the Assignment page . Select  Edit submission to add or replace files, or edit a text submission. When you finish making changes, click  Save changes.
• For some assignment types, you will see a Submit assignment button. To finalize your submission, click Submit assignment , then Continue. Note : Once finalized, you will not be able to make any more changes.
• You can check under Submission status on the Assignment page to ensure your file is listed. You can also view feedback and grades from your instructor there.
• For some assignment types, you may have the option to submit multiple attempts (or drafts) for a single assignment. Because each course is different, you will need to communicate with your instructors on how submission attempts and feedback are configured for each Moodle assignment.

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