Sometimes something will appear missing or misbehaving when attempting to grade assignments one-at-a-time. If none of the below options work you can always grade assignments offline entirely! Can’t see or Grade all Students Can’t see Inline Annotation Buttons Continue reading →
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Sometimes when using the PDF annotator built into Assignment grading a student will submit a file and the preview will be blank, there may still be some ways to see what the student submitted or otherwise have that student save Continue reading →
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This is a new feature as of 2018/SU with our update to Moodlerooms 3.4 and provide instructors with a means of toggling the completion status of assigned work in a Moodle course. These steps require that you have Completion Tracking Continue reading →
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These steps require that completion tracking be enabled in your course. NOTE: You can’t automatically check to ensure your student’s upload the CORRECT file, but you can require that at least something is submitted before they can move on. We Continue reading →
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You can bulk apply settings to ALL activities but your completion tracking options may be limited to none or manual check-off only. We suggest using this process one type of activity/tool at a time for the most control and best Continue reading →
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Completion tracking must be enabled for this option to be available. This is ideal for Forums, Assignments, Databases and other interactive activities, it can also be applied to read-only resources to ensure a student at LEAST opens a page or Continue reading →
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If a student reports they are unable to submit work to an assignment activity or even can’t see it check the following settings:
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If you have an assignment activity with cases of students submitting drafts instead of proper submissions this can be disorienting as: First, Deal with the Submitted Work Grade them anyway: turn off your filters and manually grade each submission, paying Continue reading →
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These instructions cover some of the more common and suggested settings with explanations of what each does for teachers new to using or modifying an assignment activity. This is by no means a perfect way of doing an assignment activity Continue reading →
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If you want to grade assignment activity work in bulk (after everything has been submitted) or offline (ideal for grading while traveling or otherwise with network difficulties ahead) see our article on Grading Assignment Activities in Bulk/Offline.
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If you want to grade assignment activity work one submission at a time or as its turned you might want to check out our article on Grading Assignment Activities One at a Time/as Work is Submitted. For the following to Continue reading →
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Restrict Access is a Moodle plugin that can be applied to Activities and Resources and used to limit access based on group, password, completion tracking, date/time, and more. Working with Restrict Access in Moodle
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The Assignment activity is essentially a file drop-box for students to send you files. Often these files are Word Documents or PDFs but you can request any file type from your students and optionally limit what types of files student Continue reading →
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Rubrics in Moodle 2.9 provide instructors with criteria-based assessment forms that can be used to grade student work more consistently, quickly, and transparently. The tool allows instructors to create their own rubrics from scratch or use an existing rubric that Continue reading →
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Assignments can be extended in Moodle to provide students extra time to accomplish a set task. Quiz time extensions have specific instructions. Log in to Moodle and navigate to the desired course. Enter the Assignment activity. Click the Actions Menu (gear Continue reading →
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To add any Activity or Resource to a page you must be on the main page for the course.
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Office 365 is a useful and inexpensive tool to use in creating documents for course assignments, quizzes or forum posts. But there are so many ways to share, post or save your documents in 365, that it can cause confusion Continue reading →
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There are two ways to submit an assignment in Moodle. How the methods differ: Method One: Drag and Drop is the faster and easier of the two methods but won’t work from a smart phone or older browser. Method Two: Continue reading →
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