Moodle 3.8 - 26 What are Assignment in LMS
Moodle 3.8 - 26 What are Assignment in LMS
Assignment: submitted work. As a teacher
you can have your learners submit work
through your Moodle course. This saves on
paper and it's better than email because
when they submit you'll see a list of
your class only on your Moodle course,
not cluttered up with emails from
colleagues and organisations.
What they submit can be uploaded files
or text written directly on Moodle or as
we see if we look at this example of an
assignment, because you can type your
instructions into Moodle's text editor, it
doesn't only have to be text. You can add
links images or videos relevant to your
assignment, and an assignment maybe for one
individual or it may be for a group, and
as a teacher,or you can choose whether or
not to see the identities of your
learners as you are grading it. With the Atto editor, teachers and students can directly record audio or video
Here the teacher is recording an example video for the students to follow.
So if you want to add an assignment we
need to turn the editing on and then in the
section where we want to add the
assignment we click the link Add an
activity or resource to bring up
Moodle's activity chooser.
Assignment is first on the list and we
can either click it once to read the
explanation about an assignment with
some examples for using it and then
click the Add button at the bottom ,or we
can simply click the radio button twice.
This then takes us to the assignment
setup screen. Because assignment is so
powerful it has many different options.
We're only going to look at a few in
this video. The name is important because
this is what the learners will see on
the course page and then in description
you add what you want them to do for the
assignment. If you want to include images
media links you click the appropriate
icons. I'm just going to write a short
description of what they must do and if
you want to display these instructions
on the course page you tick the box. You
can also upload additional support
documents for them if needed.
Scrolling down you can then choose when
you want them to send in their work with
due dates or a cutoff date and you can also set yourself a reminder when to grade by.
The due date is important because it will display on the course overview for learners and the
Remind me to grade by will display on the course overview for you.
What's
important next then is to decide your
submission type - in other words - if you
want them to upload one or several files,
you make sure that File submission is
ticked and you can choose the number of
files you want them to send in and you can specify a type or type of file you want them to upload.
If you
want them merely to type an essay using
Moodle's text editor you select Online
text and you can also get Moodle to set them a word limit.
Once you've done this we can actually
scroll down and save it and return to
course and we're ready to go, but it is
worth exploring some of the other
options. Click the question mark help
icon against any if you need more
information, for instance in Feedback
types, setting Comment in line will allow
you to type directly on the learners'
work just as you would when grading on
paper.
In Submission settings you can decide
if you want them to accept an agreement
that their work is their own. In Group
submission settings you can get them to
work and submit as a group
and in Notifications we can choose
whether or not to be messaged when
students submit and also whether or not
by default students will be messaged when
we have graded their work. If we click
Grade we can see that it's possible to
choose a number out of which the
assignment can be graded and it's also
possible to create our own scales which
we will look at briefly in another video.
If you tick Blind marking then you
won't initially be able to see which
learner has submitted which piece of
work, and Marking workflow and Allocation
are useful when sharing the course with
other teachers to divide up, moderate and
monitor the progress of grading. But for
now let's just save and return to course
and our assignment is ready for our
students to submit.
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