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Note: You are currently viewing documentation for Moodle 1.9. Up-to-date documentation for the latest stable version is available here: Creating an assignment submission area .

Creating an assignment submission area

An assignment is an activity for students to work on and submit to the teacher. This can be done by hand or electronically. The teacher can comment upon the assignment and award a grade. Teachers may also comment and return it to students before accepting the assignment for grading.

Creating and Using Assignments

Select assignment activity.

• Make sure you click on Turn editing on in the top right hand corner if it is not already done.
• Offline activity - If they cannot submit electronically you can examin their work in another way, but you can then use Moodle to award the marks and to send feedback. This facilitates fast communication back to the learner, but possibly even more importantly - keeps a record of the mark and feedback
• Upload a single file - if you want them to submit a file electronically (on the next page in a minute you will have to specify the maximum size, whether you want to be emailed for every submission and whether you will allow them to resubmit more than once)
• Online Text - if you just want them to type their submission directly into Moodle (instead of using a Word Processor). This is useful for shorter assignments, or where they are constantly making small changes. It also allows you to insert comments in the middle of their assignments. (on the next page in a minute you will have to specify whether they can resubmit more than once, whether you want to be emailed for every submission made and whether you want to be able to insert comments inside their submission "inline comments")

Fill in assignment settings

Fill in the form that comes up as follows:

• Assignment name: a meaningful short description of the assignment that will appear in the area/week you put the assignment. (This should contain as much information as possible in a very terse form eg. "Assignment Submission area: NO. 3: A powerpoint presentation" - it can stretch over more than one line if necessary)
• If it is a very long specifications that you may already have prepared in another format (eg. MS Word), you can upload and link to the full description elsewhere (Add a resource.. Link to file or website) and just write a few words here telling them where to find it.
• If you want to write a longer explanation here you can, or you can copy and paste from a Word document.
• "To submit your document electronically, use the Browse button below, find the document form on your PC (you may have to select the correct drive and folder), click on it and then click on Open, then select Upload this file."
• Grade: set the maximum mark for the assignment. You can have No grade if you just want to provide feedback only.
• Available from and Due date: make sure it is realistic, students tend to take this seriously. **It won't allow them upload after the due date - unless
• Prevent late assignments: check this box if they can (in which case you will be informed that the submission was late and can mark accordingly)
• Select Next to move on to some other settings as described in the section immediately above.
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• Submit coursework to timed Moodle Assignment
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• Access feedback and grade
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It can take time for your file to be uploaded to Moodle and for it to be processed by Turnitin. This can be anywhere from a couple of minutes to up to 30 minutes per file, depending on the size and format of your file and your connection speed. Ensure you leave yourself adequate time to successfully submit your assignment, especially if you are submitting multiple large files.

Turnitin may be enabled on Moodle assignments. Please refer to the guidance on Turnitin's accepted file types and file size and naming conventions before you submit your file.

• You can also select the Assignments link in your Module Dashboard to open a list of all your Moodle assignments. Select the relevant assignment to open it.
• On Grid format, open the Block drawer and navigate to the Activities block, select the link to Assignments .
• View or download any additional files that may have been added for use in the assignment, such as example submissions or answer templates. The files will be available under the instructions in the assignment description.
• You may need to agree to the Turnitin End-User Licence Agreement - see Turnitin box below for further instructions if required .
• The File submissions screen will display.
• Review and check the submission declaration box to confirm that your work is entirely your own (or that of your group, if submitting a group assignment).
• To submit your assignment, you can simply drag and drop your assignment file(s) from your computer desktop or file manager or use a file picker via the Add icon. 
• Select Save changes to submit your assignment.

Drag and drop

To submit your assignment, you can simply drag and drop your assignment file(s) from your computer desktop or file manager. 

• Find your file on the drive or folder in which it is saved.
• Resize the window, so that the browser and the Moodle module are visible.
• Select and hold on the relevant file that you want to upload to Moodle and drag it into the file submissions box.
• Drop your file onto into the box by releasing the selection. This may take a few moments so please be patient.
• The file will appear in the box when it has been uploaded.

File picker

You can use the manual method by selecting the Add  icon on the top left of the upload tool.

• Once you have selected the Add icon a File picker window will open.
• Ensure Upload a file is selected. Select  Choose File .
• Browse to the drive on your computer where your file is saved. Select the file that you want to upload.
• Select  Open .
• You will be brought back to your assignment submission area and the file will appear in the box.
• Select  Upload this file .
• Your assignment submission area will display your uploaded file.

Submit multiple files

If you are required to submit more that one file as part of your assignment repeat these steps for each of the files that you are required to upload. Please refer to the assignment instructions for information on the number of files that you are required to submit and the maximum file size.

• Select  Save changes  to save your submission.
• The file will appear on the page and the Submission status will update to Submitted for grading . If your lecturer is using Turnitin with this assignment and if your file has been successfully submitted to Turnitin, you will see a unique Turnitin ID for your submission.
• You will receive a notification to your City email inbox stating that the submission has been added.

Submit assignment button

You may be required to select a  Submit assignment  button to finalise your assignment and to send your submission for marking. After selecting the Submit assignment button, you will not be able to edit your submission unless your lecturer releases the submission back to you. 

If your lecturer is using Turnitin within the Moodle assignment, and if this is your first time submitting to Turnitin for the new academic year, you might also be presented with an End-User Licence Agreement (EULA) to review and accept before submitting your assignment. There is currently no box to check, but you will need to select the link to open the End-User Licence Agreement (EULA): 

• Review the EULA and scroll down the page to select  I agree .
• Select away from the confirmation page to continue you assignment submission. If you do not accept the EULA you will not be able to complete your assignment submission.
• Firefox: When the pop-up window is blocked you will be able to see a message in the browser address bar. To view the agreement page, select  Options and then allow popups for moodle.city.ac.uk
• Internet Explorer: Internet Explorer will display a message at the bottom of the page to indicate that a pop-up page has been blocked. Select Allow once if you wish to only see the current blocked page. We recommend you to select the option to Always allow from Options for this site menu.
• Chrome: Chrome will display a message in the address bar to indicate that it has blocked a pop-up page.
• If your pop-ups are blocked initially, and you then unblock them, you will need to select the link again to read and accept the Turnitin EULA.

When you submit a file to a Moodle assignment with Turnitin enabled, you may receive an error message that prevents your submission from uploading successfully to Turnitin. Some of the errors such as  file exceeds maximum allowed size  and  user has not accepted end user agreement  are clear to understand and easily rectifiable by following the guidelines set in the  Submit Turnitin Assignment Guide .

There are other errors that are not so clear to understand such as:

• problem creating the module in Turnitin (see API logs) 
• problem editing the module settings in Turnitin (see API logs) 
• no accessible content in the file pool 
• XML response could not be parsed 

To rectify these errors, please try the following:

• If the file name of your submission is over 40 characters, change the file name of your submission and resubmit the file.
• If  you converted the assignment file from Word to PDF, we have found changing the file name and resubmitting the assignment works.
• If the file name has any punctuation apart from underscores, remove punctuation from the file name and resubmit.
• If the file name & file name convention is OK, sometimes, simply changing the file name helps push the paper through to Turnitin. 

Note:  If you don't seem to have the ability to resubmit or if the deadline has passed, please contact your Course Officer who can assist.

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Creating Assignments in Moodle

Students can submit work for a course via the Assignment Activity in Moodle.

Adding an Assignment to a Course

• Open the Moodle course and turn editing on by sliding the  Edit Mode  toggle to the on position. ( Those using the Classic Theme in Moodle can click the  Turn Editing on  button. ).
• Move to the section of the course where you wish the assignment to appear and click the Add an activity or resource button.
• Select Assignment .

General Settings

Under the General heading, enter an Assignment name and Description for the assignment.

You can also add Activity Instructions , which will appear when the student opens the assignment.

Availability Settings

Under the Availability heading, set the Allow submissions from date.

• If enabled, the Due date means that any assignments submitted after the date will be marked late.
• If enabled, the Cut-off date means that students can no longer upload assignments after the entered date.
• Most people set a Due date, but only set a Cut-off date if you are sure that you won’t allow late submissions.
• Time limit is useful when using an Online text box rather than a File submission. When enabled students have a specified amount of time to enter material into the Online box.

Submission Type Settings

• Most people choose File submissions .
• You could choose Online text if you wanted students to enter text or to paste a URL to a video presentation hosted on YouTube.
• You can also set the Accepted file types , if you want to prevent students from uploading file types you may not be able to read, such as a Pages document.

Feedback Types Settings

Under the Feedback types section, check the Feedback types you would like to use.

• Feedback comments lets you type comments into a comment box.
• Annotate PDF converts the file to a PDF and then lets you mark up and comment directly on the PDF file.
• Feedback files lets you download the Word document, comment on it, and re-upload it to the system.
• Checking the Comment inline turns the document into a text box where you can comment inline with the text.  (Only useful for short assignments.)

Submission Settings

Under the Submission settings heading:

• Require students to click the submit button = Set to Yes . Otherwise, if students forget to click submit you will see files that say “draft.”
• Require that students accept the submission statement = The submission statement is a message regarding Gettysburg College’s honor code.  If you want students to read this before submitting their files, select Yes .
• Attempt reopened  = Usually set to Manually, which allows the instructor to reopen an assignment so a student can re-submit it if there is a problem.
• Maxium attempts  = If you set it to two, you allow students to upload a second file if they make a mistake.  They do not have to contact you to do so.

Group Submission Settings

The Group Submission section allows one person from a student group to upload a presentation file for everyone in the group.  The downside to this setting is that if set to yes, you can’t grade each person in the group individually.

Notifications Settings

The Notification s section includes options to send emails to the instructor when a new submission arrives or if it is late.  You can also send automatic notifications to students when the item has been graded.

Grade Settings

• Type = Point is the most common option, but can set to None or Scale .
• Grading method = Simple direct grading is the most common and provides a place to enter the grade and a comment box.  Can also setup checklist , marking guide , or rubrics .
• If you have created categories in your gradebook, you can choose your Grade category .
• Grade to pass = This option isn’t necessary, but might use if using Mastery Grading or setting Access restrictions
• Anonymous submissions = When you grade the assignments, Moodle will hide the students’ name until finished grading.
• Hide grader identity = Used by large schools where a class my employ several TAs.
• Use marking workflow = Used by large schools where several people may mark an assignment.

Common Module Settings

Under the Common module settings section, you can set the Group mode to a specific group so that only members of that group can access the assignment. (To use this setting, you first must setup your groups in your course.)

The Force language option allows you to set the language for the individual assignment rather than the entire course.

Restrict Access Settings

Under the Restrict Access heading you can limit access to the assignment in numerous ways.

• Date = usually people use the dates set under the Availability section.
• Grade = used often with Mastery grading schemes
• Group = can limit to a certain group
• User profile = can limit to a specific person
• Release code = can set a pass code

More Information About Moodle Assignments

• Moodle.org: What is the Assignment Activity?
• Moodle.org: Assignment Settings

Video: Creating Assignments in Moodle 3 (recording of live Moodle training)

This video explores how to create and use the Assignment Activity in Moodle 3 using the Classic theme.

The default theme for Moodle as of the Fall 2023 is Boost. Courses made prior to this time used the Classic theme.

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How to Add an Assignment in Moodle

• Posted by Woo Young Kim
• Date August 18, 2020

Moodle has an assignment feature in the activity chooser where teachers can manage the assignment submission types, feedback types and provide detailed descriptions about the assignment. In the assignment set up screen, you can type in the name of the assignment next to ‘Assignment name’ and type in the description next to the text box for ‘Description’ tab. The following highlighted icons allows you to add media links , images , audio/video files , and H5P content .

Allow submissions from:

This is the date when students can submit their assignment if this option is enabled. If this is disabled, students can submit their assignment any time when this assignment is uploaded and visible to the students.

Due to date:

Cut off date:, remind me to grade by:.

Online text:

File submissions:.

Feedback comments:

This option allows teachers to leave feedback comments to the students’ assignment submission. When you enable this option, you can enable comment in line to comment directly on an ‘online text’ type submission.

Offline grading comments:

This option allows teachers to download,upload and edit the student grades in a program such as MS Excel. When the teacher completes grading the assignment, they can upload the student grades in Excel spreadsheet. The comments will be transferred over into Moodle’s gradebook

Feedback files:

Require students to click the submit button:

Require that students accept the submission statement:, attempts reopened:.

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Submitting an assignment on behalf of a student

You may have students email you their assignment rather than submitting through Moodle themselves. If you want the assignment to be checked for academic integrity via Turnitin, this page will guide you through the process of submitting an assignment on behalf of a student.

Add a submission

Note: 

• The drop-box might be replaced or complemented by a plain text area, depending on the submission type settings of the assignment (see  Edit an assignment ).
• At this stage, the submission is a draft. You can advise the student to submit the assignment for grading, or do it on their behalf (see below). This will prevent the student from making any changes to the submission.

Submit the assignment

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Create a grouping of student groups, enable group submission, configure group submission options, grade student submissions.

In Moodle you can create assignments where students work in groups and each group makes an assignment submission. For example, students in a group can submit one file that represents their joint work. Any group member can download, modify, and re-upload a file, or edit a text entry.

Note: Group submission is distinct from Common module settings . Common module settings determine which groups can view and submit to a particular activity (see Assign an Activity to a Group or Grouping in Moodle ). 

Before configuring a group-based assignment activity, you must first create Groups for your students and put those groups in a specific Grouping :

• Create Groups of students. For details, see Create & Modify Groups in Moodle .
• Create a Grouping to contain your student Groups. For details, see Create Groupings in Moodle .
• On your course page, click  Turn editing on (top right).
• Add a new assignment activity, or Edit settings for an existing Assignment .  The New/Update Assignment page will open.
• Configure the General , Availability , Assignment type , etc., for the assignment.
• Click Group submission settings to view the Group submission options, and f rom the Students submit in groups drop-down menu, select Yes.
• (Optional) Require all group members submit (See Configure Group Submissions , below).
• From the Grouping for student groups drop-down menu, select the Grouping you created for your student groups.
• Under Common module settings , from the Group mode drop-down menu, select Separate groups or Visible groups , and fr om the Grouping drop-down menu, select the Grouping used in the previous step. Note : This step is especially important if you are assigning different Assignment activities to different groups in your course. But even if everyone in the course is assigned the same activity, choosing Common Module settings here will make grading the assignment easier (see Grade Student Submissions , below).
• Scroll to the bottom of the page and click  Save and return to course.

The following additional options in the assignment's settings allow you to configure the process by which students submit their group work:

• In Submission settings ,  Require students click submit button:  (Default is No.) If set to Yes , students in the group must click a "Submit" button to formally indicate that their work is ready for grading, after which they can no longer modify their submission. The default (No) accepts their submission as soon as anyone submits it. They can change their submission at any time.
• In Group submission settings,  Require all group members submit:  (Default is No.) This option is enabled only when Require students click submit button is set to Yes . The default setting (No) allows any member of the group to submit on behalf of the group. Changing this to  Yes means that all students in the group must click the "Submit" button to indicate that they all have signed off on the submission.
• On your course page, click the link to the assignment activity you want to grade. The Assignment page will open, showing the Grading summary and Submission status .
• Click  View/grade all submissions . The Assignment submissions page will open.
• From the Separate groups or Visible groups drop-down menu, select a Group to grade. The page will reload to show only the students from that Group . Note : The groups drop-down will not appear unless you have completed step 7, above (Common module settings).

• Provide a grade and feedback comments as you would normally. See Grade Assignments in Moodle for details.
• If you would like your grade and feedback to only be provided for an individual student, under Group submission settings , set the  Apply grades and feedback to entire group setting to  No . If set to Yes , the same grade and feedback will to be applied to all students in the group.
• Scroll down to the bottom and click  Save changes.

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Allow Multiple Submissions to Moodle Assignment

There may be situations when an instructor wishes to collect multiple document submissions within the same Moodle assignment such as a rough draft that is submitted for feedback prior to a final draft submission or collecting multiple documents as part of the same assignment over a period of time. The following instructions will allow the instructor to collect submissions over time, in multiple submissions and provide PDF annotation to each submission all within the same assignment.

Note:  The default behavior in Moodle assignment is that upon submission of an additional file, all previous annotations are cleared and a new PDF is generated combining all file submissions.

Creating an Assignment with multiple submissions

• Select the “Edit Mode”  toggle in the upper right to begin editing the course site.
• Choose the Topics Block where you want to add the assignment and click  Add an activity or resource .
• Select the “Assignment” activity in the Activity Chooser.
• Name the assignment and add a description as well as set the availability of the assignment.

• Set the “Maximum attempts” if desired, the default is unlimited attempts.
• Set Grade and Notifications settings as desired. [Save and display]
• Once students have submitted their first file submissions, grade/annotate using the Annotate PDF grading interface.

• Repeat these steps for however many submissions you want students to submit for the assignment.

Grading Multiple Submissions

Student Experience

• Students will submit their first submission as they normally would for any assignment activity.
• Add a new attempt based on the previous submission: this will copy the contents of their previous submission to a new submission for them to work on.
• Add a new attempt: this will create a new blank submission.

Add a Media Assignment

• Publication date November 2, 2017

Introduction

This article will cover how to set-up a Moodle assignment to allow students to submit videos. The recommended way to facilitate video assignments is to have your students use UP’s Kaltura MediaSpace video site. MediaSpace has built-in tools to let students capture webcam, voice, and desktop and automatically upload. Once uploaded the videos can be shared or turned in to a Moodle assignment submission.

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In the Section that you want to add a Media Assignment to, click Add an activity or resource

From the list of activities choose Media Assignment and click Add

Add a title and description, and configure due dates, grade, and any other needed settings.

You can choose whether or not students can submit past the due date, whether or not they can change their submission after adding it, and whether or not you want to receive email notices when students submit.

Click Save and Return to Course.

Are instructions available for students to use to submit their videos?

Why yes! Feel free to point your students to the guide for submitting to a media assignment .

Why don’t students get email notifications when they have successfully submitted a video?

One difference between a standard assignment and a media assignment is that students will not receive the standard email notification upon submission. Instead, they should see a success message on the Moodle screen after submission. They can also revisit the submission page and verify that their video is present.

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