1. Assessment – using the Moodle assignment
Rachel Applegate & Yvonne Moore

2. Technology Enhanced Learning
Faculty
Learning Technologists –
Learning Enhancement Adviser – Dr Tracey Madden
Centre for Learning & Technologist (CLT)
TEL Team -
Academic staff development -
Mention Moodle Support Hub as sources of guidance

3. Today’s workshop We aim to: Part 1 (1 hour)
Explain how to set up a Moodle assignment submission point
Outline key assignment settings and their implications (e.g. Blind (anonymous) marking, Turnitin, Marking workflow)
Explain the student’s view of assignment submission and feedback
Give an overview of the methods for entering marks and feedback (individual marking, bulk download and import, PDF annotation, rubrics)
Explain the link between Moodle and SAMIS
Part 2 (1 hour)
Practical activity – practice the assignment marking and feedback process
Q&A – have you used the assignment tool?
In Part 1, we will demonstrate Moodle functionality – highlight settings including important points and the effect for students. Here to identify the settings with tend to raise issues or queries.
In Part 2 (optional) you can complete a practical exercise (set up in a demo training space) to practice the marking process. We will be on hand to answer questions
You may choose to complete Part 2 in your own time.

4. Access TurningPoint https://go.bath.ac.uk/tpv Session ID: TEL2000
So we can get some input from you about your experience using Moodle assignments, as we go along

5. Why use the Moodle assignment?
For students to submit written work electronically
Stores and tracks electronic submissions and feedback in one place
Simple for students
Transparent for staff teams
Allows automated submission to Turnitin for plagiarism detection
Facilitates anonymous marking
Can use the submission point for students to submit ‘online text’ (e.g. a link), or to return feedback on ‘offline’ events (e.g. presentations)
Other approaches to e-assessment in Moodle include
Quizzes (to be covered in other support resources)
Using databases

6. How confident do you feel with using the Moodle assignment tool?
I’m a novice
I know some basics
I’m an advanced user

7. How to create an assignment
1. First, turn editing on
2. Scroll down to your chosen topic
3. Choose Add an activity or resource
4. Select Assignment, then Add
5. Expand all to view all the settings on one page
Show Add activity
Show assignment settings
Expand all
Will go through key settings in more detail

8. Availability You must have a Due date if you are using Turnitin
Due date vs. Cut-off date
Can apply extensions for individuals (more detail to follow)
Don’t change the Due date or Cut-off date if you use Turnitin – so you will have to re-create your assignments at the start of each academic year
Some settings must be applied when you first create the assignment, and should not be changed later (e.g. submission deadline if you are using Turnitin)

9. Which forms of online submission do you use?
Word document (e.g. essay)
PDF document (e.g. report)
PowerPoint presentation
Weblink (e.g. link to e-portfolio or blog)
Other

10. Which forms of feedback do you provide?
Download and annotate files
Annotate PDFs within Moodle
Audio feedback
Video feedback
Other

11. Submission types
Can use ‘online text’ for short submissions, or submitting a web link (students type straight into box)
Can disable ‘file submission’ if you want to use it for feedback only (e.g. on an in class presentation)

12. Feedback types Using Bath version of grading worksheet
Allows you to download assignments in bulk, and a ‘grading worksheet’
The ‘Bath version’ includes the Student Number (making it easier to enter marks in SAMIS afterwards) – it will only display the student number after Student Identifies have been revealed

13. Submission and group submission settings
Require students to click submit button – students have two stage submission process: 1. upload file (draft), 2. submit (final) > can no longer be edited
Recommend to use default (require students to submit = NO) with anonymous marking
For group submissions, only use these settings if you want students to make submissions in groups (don’t use them if you just want to be able to filter by group for your own purposes – see common module settings)
recommend to set up Groups and Groupings first, then enable Students submit in groups (advice in Moodle Support Hub, will be developing a screencast)
Default setting Require all group members to submit = NO: the first file uploaded is the submission for all group members. If you have no groups set up, it will populate the submission for all students!!
You can change the settings to require all group members to approve the submission

14. Notifications Notify graders?
Provides notification for each submission
Goes to all ‘Teachers’ and ‘Non-editing Teachers’ on the course
Not recommended for large cohorts
Late submission notifications can be useful
‘Notify students’
Depends if you are providing feedback to students straight away (e.g. formative feedback) – use default setting yes
If you have a moderation process (e.g. using marking workflow), use default setting no
You can override the default notification setting on a case by case basis
If you use the default setting ‘Notify students’ = YES, and anonymous marking, then a notification message will be sent when student identities are revealed

15. I have used Turnitin plagiarism checking software before
True
False

16. Turnitin
If you enable Turnitin, you cannot ‘reuse’ an assignment submission point (e.g. by updating the Due Date or duplicating it).
You must recreate the submission point for each new cohort of students.

17. Turnitin
Make sure you enable Turnitin at the time you set up your assignment (you shouldn’t apply this setting at a later stage, once you’ve saved your assignment)
Double check your Due Date, as you won’t be able to change that if you are using Turnitin
It’s recommended to use the Default settings for Turnitin

18. Grade Grade type Point = most common – maximum points 100 = % mark
Can change this setting to None if you wish to provide formative feedback comments only (although it won’t let you track the ‘grading status’ unless you have a Grade)
Can change setting to Scale if you wish to use, for example, a Pass / Fail grade – this involves setting up a scale = advanced
Advanced level (scales, rubrics, marking guides) – arrange one-to-one training / we will develop screencasts / can also get support from Faculty LEA for developing assessment criteria

19. Grade – advanced grading
Marking guide
Example rubric
Can change the Grading method to Rubric or Marking guide = advanced
Rubric = select from predefined statements (levels) for each criterion
Set up assessment criteria in advance
Make them visible to students in advance – helps students to situate their own work on a relative scale
Can add comments for each criterion to personalise the feedback
Useful when you have multiple markers
You must assign a mark to each criteria (but you don’t have to show them to students if the feedback is formative)
Marking guide = predefined criteria, with a comments box for each
Set up marking guide in advance
Gives a structure to feedback comments
Can build up ‘frequently used comments’ bank

20. I have used blind marking in Moodle before
True
False

21. Grade – using blind marking
Moodle Support Hub
Moodle setting =‘blind’ marking = what we call anonymous marking
Must be set up when submission point first set up and saved for the first time
Cannot be applied after students have made a submission
Will have to re-create assignment submission point for each academic year
Moodle will show a Participant ID – this is a randomly generated Moodle ID
When you Reveal student identities, you will see student names
If you have used the Bath grading worksheet, if you download this after revealing identities, you will see the SAMIS number
It is fine to reveal identities after marking is complete, but before you upload the marks to SAMIS
How to deal with extension requests – use Moodle groups
Can you reveal a single student’s identity? - no

22. I coordinate or mark assignments with more than one marker
True
False

23. Grade – using marking workflow
Use marking workflow – can set marking workflow state – once Released, reveals feedback and marks to students
Useful if you have multiple markers, or moderation of feedback and marks (e.g. by a Director of Studies)
Use marking allocation – you can assign a marker to a submission
Teachers will only see the submissions assigned to them
Moodle assignment can’t do double blind marking! (come and see us…) – ADVANCED

24. Student View

25. Overview of marking methods, the settings you need, and when you might use them

26. Overview of grading window Submission / grading status
You can view the feedback comments, feedback files and Grade here
Grant and track extensions
Track the submission status and marking workflow status
Late submissions are highlighted
You can view the submitted files here
Overview of grading window
Submission / grading status
Late submissions
Extension requests

27. Downloading marks for import to SAMIS
Use the Grading worksheet (Bath version)
Once student identities are revealed, contains the Student ID number for easy matching to SAMIS record
Bath grading worksheet contains SAMIS ID (once Student Identities are revealed)
It’s fine to lift anonymity once marking is complete (before marks are entered in to SAMIS

28. Practice View our screencasts
Create an assignment (use your own Moodle course)
Go back to a previous submission and practice exporting files and marking sheet
We’re on hand to help – just ask!