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Please refer to guide M09 - Digital Assessment - an Overview for the different phases of digital assessment at UCL.

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What is it?

Besides equally letting y'all collect work submitted by students, Moodle Assignment allows yous to mark work, both online and offline. It offers a range of ways to requite feedback and a identify to record a numeric grade.

Assessment grading in Moodle 3.one (Video)

Why use it?

Digital feedback is more than reliably comprehensible than handwritten feedback.
It is bachelor to students when they need to refer to it in their subsequent work.
Different feedback modes tin exist combined to ameliorate student engagement including specific annotations, structured marksheets, general comments, video and sound feedback, and feedback files (which allow for annotations on student work, screencasts, spoken feedback etc).
The feedback tin can be accessed via MyFeedback, which encourages students to cross-reference and accept an integrated view of progress.
MyFeedback likewise allows students, personal tutors and other selected staff to follow progress over time.
Moodle Consignment can handle independent ('bullheaded') marking because it allows inboxes of submissions to be downloaded (preserving anonymity if needed) along with a marksheet.
Similarly Moodle Assignment tin can handle offline marking by allowing submissions and marksheet to exist downloaded, preserving anonymity if needed.

Who can utilize information technology?

Unmarried or multiple markers.

Before I outset...

Usually assessors need to hide marks and feedback from students until a conditional appointment. To do this, refer to guidance on hiding grades is available from moodledocs.

Choosing feedback types

When you are setting up your assignment, you determine on the mode of feedback yous will give. In your Assignment'south settings and roll to theFeedback types section, which allows you a combination of feedback modes. Further feedback modes are available in theGrade >Grading method setting.

For online markers

Annotations (enabled by default in the Grader) - can be filtered, optionally including a bank of your oft-made comments. Encounter moodledocs for guidance on annotations.
Feedback files - you tin can upload files (these could be the student'due south original submission with your annotations, or a spoken recording, or a screencast, for example).
Rubric - a marking grid plotting criteria against levels of achievement. Come across moodledocs for guidance on Rubric.
Mark guide - a table allowing marks and feedback for each criterion, optionally including a depository financial institution of your oft-made comments. See moodledocs for guidance on Marking Guide.
Tape audio and video feedback - yous can select either option from the text editor. Notation. The maximum length of a recording is 2 minutes, merely you tin record multiple times.

For offline markers

Feedback comments - summary comments.
Offline grading worksheet - summary comment and grade.
Feedback files - (can be in combination with the grading worksheet) upload files eastward.g. the pupil's original submission with your annotations, or a spoken recording, or a screencast.

The unlike feedback types are explained on moodledocs.

How do I mark?

Step ane: Admission the Assignment submissions

After the final submission engagement, go to the Consignment (e.g. via the Assignments link in the Activities box in the correct-hand side of your course folio).

Click on View all submissions.

This will open the submission inbox or "View all submissions" page. From this folio, you lot tin can grade, download and upload submissions, and release grades.

The columns within the inbox can be collapsed. This will allow y'all to just see the 'useful' columns when viewing submissions.

Step 2: Prepare submissions for marking - ensure marking is hidden from students

If marking workflow is turned on, you should run across a newspaper status on the View all submissions page. So long equally the condition is non ready to Released, feedback and grades will be hidden from students.

If yous didn't gear up an terminate date on Moodle when creating the assignment, choose Lock submissions at the bottom of the folio to prevent new uploads.

Footstep 3: Mark submissions

Option A: To mark offline

If you want to exercise offline marking, on the "View all submissions" folio, choose the relevant Grading action from the Dropdown box, such every bit 'Download all submissions' and 'Download grading worksheet'.
The submissions will be downloaded as a zip file that you can extract to your computer.
Each pupil will take their ain folder (usually anonymised past number) containing their submitted file(southward). You can and then annotate their submission, or add further files (for example marking sheets, audio or video feedback files) into the same folder.
The grading worksheet will contain a row for each student (identified by submission number matching the submission folder number, if anonymous) and you can use this canvas to enter the grade and any full general feedback.

Once you have finished marker, re-upload mark past:

Nil the files back together (Note. zip the student folders together, don't cipher the consignment folder which contains the submissions. You tin re-proper noun your zipped folder if necessary it should non bear upon upload).
Return to the submission inbox, and select "Upload multiple feedback files in a zero" and follow the prompts to upload the zipped folder to the Moodle. Additional files volition be attached equally feedback to each student's submission.

Option B: To mark online

Click on Grade in the Assignment to class each educatee one-by-one.
Fill up in the feedback box (you can add together video and audio feedback using the text editor), add some annotations, and the Course.
If you have enabled marking workflow, set the status of the paper to 'Marking completed' to go along a running record of mark.
Click Save Changes. (Don't tick "notify students" as yous should transport this all at the same fourth dimension).

Footstep iv: Return marks to students

Footstep 4a: Release feedback

When mark is complete, g o dorsum to the Assignment and click View all submissions.

If you have enabled mark workflow:

yous tin can select all or a subset of submissions using the checkbox. Note. clicking the checkbox at the tiptop of the table, selects all the submissions.
From the With selected... drop-down menu choose Set marking workflow state and Go.
In the subsequent page, change the mark workflow state to 'Released' and click 'Save changes'. This will release grades and feedback to students without revealing student identities to markers.

If you have Non enabled marker workflow:

From the 'Grading action' drib-downwardly bill of fare, cull "Reveal identities". Information technology is only now that the grades volition exist added to the Gradebook (see below).

Optional steps:

Make an announcement to inform students

Export Grades from the Gradebook

You can now export the grades, for case past clicking on the "View gradebook" in the Settings, selecting Export from the top row of tabs, then choosing the desired file format from the ii^nd row of tabs, ticking just the consignment(due south) that you desire exported, and so Download.

Check the grade has been released in the Gradebook

On your Moodle class, under the This Grade tab go to Grades
Click the User report tab
Select a random student from the Select all or i user drop-downwardly.
Select User for the View report as driblet-down.

You should now exist able to see the grade as it appears to students.

Cheque in the Gradebook that the consignment and grades are set to visible:

If you take followed the steps provided, grades and feedback should exist released to students.

Yet, occasionally an consignment is hidden in the Gradebook, which will, in plow, hide the consignment course and feedback.

On your Moodle course, under the This Course tab go to Grades
Click the Setup tab
Make sure yous are on the Gradebook setup sub-tab
Check if your consignment appears in light greyness text. If it does, then it is hidden. You lot tin united nations-hide an consignment past clicking Edit and selecting Prove.

Email students that their feedback and grades are available

Transport electronic mail to all students that the grades and feedback should now be available on Moodle in their "My Feedback" section (they won't get an email apparently). Instruct students to "download the annotated PDF (if any) rather than simply previewing it. Preview sometimes displays comments in a fashion that obscures the original text".

Become to Participants via the Navigation box on the right.
Select "All students" for "Electric current office"
Become to bottom of the page, click "Select All"
Go to lesser of the page, from the dropdown "with selected users" choose "Send a message"

(These instructions accept been adapted from instructions provided by Kris Thielemans from the Faculty of Medical Sciences.)

Organising markers

One style to allocate markers to work is to put students and markers into Groups.
Even so, if you want to classify markers on the fly due east.g. based on area of expertise, or if dates for each marking stage are a scrap more than fluid, you tin can use Marking Workflow - run into this Workflow video for an overview; guidance on Workflow is bachelor from MoodleDocs.
Multiple markers who don't need to exist independent ('blind') can both mark online - but they need to decide in accelerate how to enter feedback and marks. Where there is blind mark an arroyo is for ane assessor to marking on Moodle and the other to mark downloaded submissions and use the offline grading worksheet to make notes or give feedback.

Caution

Exercise take active steps to hide marks and feedback from students - otherwise they show i by one every bit you mark. Refer to the MoodleDocs guidance on hiding grades.
Although Moodle Assignment offers several dissimilar modes of feedback, feedback is enervating of students. They need to relate the dissimilar bits of feedback to each other, to the criteria, to their mark, sometimes to a model reply, and to the decisions they made with their work, sometimes weeks previously. Give focused, concise feedback.
Uploading an offline grading worksheet will overwrite any existing marks and summary feedback.
The maximum length for video and Audio feedback is 2minutes. Nonetheless, you can add multiple video and audio recordings.

Examples and example studies

Elodie Douarin (UCL SSEES) used Moodle Consignment, including rubrics, to help her students relate feedback to assessment criteria. Read her project written report.

Questions & Answers

See:

Moodle Assignment - Questions & Answers
Or the FAQ on moodledocs.

Further information

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