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Assignment settings to use a Rubric

1. Click on an assignment to be taken to the assignment page. Alternatively, you can add a new activity or resource and choose “Assignment.”

2. Click “Settings” to see ALL the assignment settings.

3. You can set your due dates and cut-off dates in the “Availability” section

4. Be sure to allow file submissions and limit the number and size of uploads if needed.

5. Click the “Accepted file types” field.

Type “.pdf” in the field.

Now, students can only upload PDF files. They will receive an error if they try to upload a different file type.

You can limit this to all file types if you wish. Click on the “Choose” button to see more options.

  • Setting file type to Word documents only.
    “.docx, .doc” will only allow Microsoft Word documents.

6. Set the appropriate feedback types for your assignment.

Since the assignment is limited to PDF submissions, we want to choose “Annotate PDF.”

7. Now, the assignment is set up to grade using the Annotated PDF feature. Click “Save and display” to start accepting submissions.

Providing Feedback Files When Grading Moodle Assignments.

1. Navigate to the assignment you are grading.

Click “View all submissions.”

2. Instead of going to each student and grading in the browser window, we will download all the submissions so we can make comments and provide feedback directly in their submission.

Click “Download all submissions.”

3. The submissions are downloaded in a Zip file; each is labelled with the student’s name in their document title.

Open the document and make comments where you have concerns with the submission. Type your comments in a different colour or easily distinguishable font from the submission fonts

.4. You can now provide a grade and upload the feedback file you just created.

Click “Grade” to perform these tasks.

5. Provide a numerical grade for the student. In this case the grade is out of 25.

6. Type general feedback in the “Feedback comments” field.

7. Now you can upload the file you commented in back to the student.

8. Click “Upload a file” and choose the file you created as the “Feedback file.”

9. Give your document a name in the “Save as” field.

Once done, click “Upload this file.”

10. Once you have input all the comments and grades, click “Save changes.”

11. Click “View all submissions”

12. You can see that “Student 11” received feedback comments, a numerical grade, and the attached uploaded feedback file.

How To Grade Assignments and Provide Feedback with inLine Comments

1. In your course, click on the assignment for which grading is required.

2. You can click “View all submissions ” to choose a specific student to grade.

3. Choose the student whom you wish to grade. Click “Grade”

4. You can see how many words were submitted and can click on the “+” icon to “View full”

5. In the “Feedback comments” area, the text submitted by the student is pulled into the “Feedback comments” field so that you can provide feedback inline.

6. Once you are done providing grades and comments for this submission, click “Save and Show Next” to go to the next student submission.

Information About Booking Exams in the Testing Centre (for instructors)

If you are an instructor and want to use the Testing Centre to have your students write an exam, here is some information that you should know about how the Testing Centre operates as well as the information you will need to provide to us in the Teaching Centre so we can book your exam properly.

Students Can’t Access Moodle Home-based Exams

If you are giving an exam on Moodle that is open to take from anywhere, and students are unable to access the exam, you may want to first troubleshoot these two steps.

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Emailing your Class in Moodle

Moodle currently does not have an internal email function associated with your course. 

To send an email to your entire class, you will have to use your University of Lethbridge email account.

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Moodle Exam Set Up Reminders

Important Moodle Exam Information

Please check over ALL Moodle exam questions BEFORE the opening date of the exam. Once students attempt the exam, errors in the questions are not easily fixed.

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