moodle assignment comment inline

Moodle - Assignment

What does the assignment activity do.

The Assignment activity enables a lecturer to communicate tasks, collect work a s well as provide grades and feedback.

Students can submit any digital content (files), such as word-processed documents, spreadsheets, images, or audio and video clips. Alternatively, or in addition, the assignment may require students to type text directly into the text editor. An assignment can also be used to remind students of 'real-world' assignments they need to complete offline, such as art work, and thus not require any digital content. Students can submit work individually or as a member of a group.

When reviewing assignments, teachers can leave feedback comments and upload files, such as marked-up student submissions, documents with comments or spoken audio feedback. Assignments can be graded using a numerical or custom scale or an advanced grading method such as a rubric. Final grades are recorded in the Gradebook.

Are you unsure if you should use Moodle assignment or Turnitin to help deliver and manage student assessments? Check out our comparison guide to help you decide which tool is more suitable.

Adding an Assignment

Before you can make any changes to your Moodle site content, you must first enable editing . To do this, click on t he 'Edit mode' butt on located at the top right of the page.

With editing enabled, you will see in each topic the following button :

Click the Assignment icon from the list to add. You can find more information about assignments by clicking "Explore this tool".

Step 4 – General settings

You will now see the 'Adding a new Assignment' page. Give your assignment a name, assessment type and weighting here . You can also add a description , and choose whether to display it on the course page (if not, students will only see it when clicking on the assignment) .

You should provide instructions for students in the ' Activity instructions ' and have the option to add relevant files below this.

Step 5 – Availability settings

Next, there are a range of settings you can alter, starting with t he Availability section , which are explained below:

Allow submissions from – this allows you to set the start date for the assignment, when the students are able to submit work.

Due Date – this allows you to set when the Assignment is due for hand in.

Cut-off date – this is the cut-off for hand - ins. It allows for students to hand in after the due date, but highlights to the marker if there was a late submission. The assignment will not accept submissions or allow edits after this time.

Always show description – if disabled, the Assignment description in the G eneral settings will only be visible to the students on the “allow submission from” date.

Step 6 – Submission types settings

The Submission types section has a range of options below . F or most assignments the default settings will be best .

Submission Types – you may choose between allowing students to submit files (default) or type directly into a text box on Moodle (with word limit).

Maximum number of uploaded files – allows you to set the maximum number of files a student can upload for their submission.

Maximum submission size – change the maximum size of the file students can submit.

Step 7 – Feedback types settings

The Feedback types section has a range of options to set how you would like to give feedback to students:

Feedback comments - allows you to add comments to each submission.

Annotate PDF - creates a PDF of the students work, allowing comments, drawings and stamps to be placed directly on top of a students work. This is browser based, so no extra software is needed.

Offline grading worksheet - allows for a CSV (comma separated value) file to be downloaded. It should open within Excel and allow the academic to edit the grades and add feedback comments. These can then be uploaded back into Moodle, where it will automatically populate the correct students' grading area.

Feedback files - allows you to upload a file with feedback in and attach to each submission.

Comment inline – if enabled, the submission text will be copied into the feedback comment field during grading, making it easier to comment inline (using a different colour, perhaps) or to edit the original text.

Step 8 – Submission settings

Under the Submission settings section, you can choose how you want the students to submit the work. Different combinations of these settings allow for different types of assignment:

Require students to click the submit button – if enabled, students will have to click a submit button to declare their work as final. This allows students to keep a draft version of the submission on the system. If the setting is changed from No to Yes after hand-ins have been made, those submissions will be regarded as final.

Require that students accept the submission statement – students must agree to a predefined statement stating the work is their own and does not contain any plagiarism.

Additional attempts – determines how student submission attempts are managed . The available options are:

Never – Only one attempt is permitted.

Manually – A lecturer can manually set specific students to be given a further attempt at submission.

Automatically until pass – Students are automatically given further att empts at submissions until the y achieve the G rade to pass value set in the Grade section for this assignment.

Steps 9 - 13

Group submission settings.

The Group submission section has a range of options to select:

Students submit in groups – when enabled, students will be divided into groups based on the default set of groups or a custom grouping. A group submission will be shared among group members and all members of the group will see each others' changes to the submission.

Require all group members submit – if this is enabled, all the members of the group must click the submit button for the submission to be considered. If disabled, the group submission will be considered as submitted as soon as any member of the student group clicks the submit button.

Grouping for student groups – this is the grouping that the assignment will use to find groups for the student groups. If this is not set, the default groups will be used.

Notifications settings

Notify graders about submission s – if this setting is enabled, the grader (usually the lecturer) will receive a message whenever a student submits an assignment. The message methods are configurable.

Notify graders about late submission – if this is enabled, it will email the graders (lecturers) when work is submitted after the due date.

Grade settings

The Grade area allows you to choose the maximum grade available for an assignment . In addition:

The Grading Method allows you to choose a standard grading option: Simple direct gradin g , a Rubric or a Marking Guide. By selecting the Rubric or Marking Guide and then sav ing the Assignment, an option to create the rubric or marking guide will appear. (These will be produced as separate guides.)

Additional settings can be altered to set a pass grade, allow anonymous submissions from students or hide the identity of the grader.

Common module settings

The Common module settings relate to the groups and grouping selection for the Assignment.

Please see the separate online guide on Groups and Groupings for a more detailed explanation.

Restrict access settings

The Restrict access section allows for the overall resource to be hidden or released to a student defined by either a date or grade condition. Click Add restriction to display 5 options:

Activity Completion - require students to complete (or not complete) another activity

Date – prevent access until/or after a specified date / time

Grade – require students to achieve a specific grade on another activity before proceeding

User profile – this section allows you to define access by a user ID, name or a range of other fields that are available for a user to complete

Restriction set – this allows you to add a set of nested restrictions to apply complex logic

For example, you can choose to release the assignment to students on a certain date, but to only those who have ach ie ved a certain grade on a previous assignment.

Additionally, toggling the eye icon to the left-hand side of each restriction allows you to choose to have the resource:

Greyed out when the student can’t access it, so that they can see it but not attempt it.

Completely hidden, until the student has met your set criteria.

When you are finished, click o n ' Save and return to course ' button.

Inline comments

You can move a comment by clicking and dragging it to where you would like to place it.

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• MDLQA-9267 Moodle 3.1 QA

CLONE - A teacher can comment inline on an online text assignment

• Fix Version/s: Moodle 3.1
• Affects Version/s: Moodle 3.1
• Component/s: Assignment , Student , Teacher
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Description

1. Log in as administrator and access Site administration>Plugins>Activity modules>Assignment>Feedback plugins>Feedback comments and ensure that 'Comment inline by default' is enabled. 2. Log in as a teacher in a course and create an assignment, verifying that Submission types has'online text' enabled and Feedback comments has 'Comment inline' set to 'Yes'. 3.Log in as a student and navigate to the assignment. Click Add submission; type 'This is my class work' and save the changes. 4. Log back in as the teacher; navigate to the assignment>View all submissions and click Grade to access the student's text. 5. Verify that the student's text displays in the Feedback comments box. 6. Verify that you are able to type "Too few words" next to the student's text. 7. Verify that you are able to select and highlight the student's words in bold. 8. Click 'Save changes'. 9. Log back in as the student navigate to the assignment. Verify that in Feedback>Feedback comments you see your text from (3) in bold and the added teacher comment from (6).

Attachments

Issue links.

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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