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5. Complete the Availability section, selecting Enable and specifying dates and times at which you want to Allow submissions, the Due date, the Cut-off date and Remind me to grade by. If you select No at Always show description, the text in the Description field will only display to students on and after the Allow submissions from date.

• Task dates display on a student's home page when they first log in, and in the Moodle Calendar, which can be subscribed or imported by other calendar programs.

• By default, students can submit after the Due date, but not after the Cut-off date. However, Instructors can grant an extension to allow an individual to submit later.

• The Cut-off date defaults to the Due date meaning no late submissions are enabled by default. To allow late submissions adjust the Cut-off date.

• Remind me to grade by is the date by which you expect the marking of the submissions to be complete. Enable this date to help you prioritise dashboard notifications. This date will display on your Course overview block and in the Calendar, when at least one student has submitted.

6. Complete the Submission types section.

• Select Online text to have students submit their assignment by placing text in the MOLE text editor. For essays of any length, advise them to complete their work offline and cut-and-paste it into MOLE, rather than risk losing their work if anything happens to their MOLE connection mid-submission.

• Select File submissions if you want to allow students to upload an assignment file as their submission. (You can now create an assignment that allows both online text and file submission.)

• Specify the Maximum number of uploaded files and the Maximum submission size.

• If you wish to restrict the file types which can be submitted to the assignment, you can specify the file type as an extension. For example, if you wish to only allow pdf submissions, in the Accepted File type field, type .pdf

• If you wish to set a word limit on the online text part of the assignment, Enable the Word limit field and enter the maximum number of words allowed.

7. Complete the Feedback types section. You can now allow feedback as comments and files, and create an Offline grading worksheet here instead of in the Gradebook. The offline worksheet ensures that marks go into the right activity, and can be used by Tutors without the risk of giving them access to the whole Gradebook. Comments and grades (but not feedback files) can be downloaded as a spreadsheet.

• Selecting Yes for Comment inline will result in the original submission being copied into the feedback comment field during grading, so that you can add inline comments (e.g. using a different colour) or edit the original text. The student's original submission will be kept intact.

8. In the submission settings:

• Selecting Yes for Require students click submit button will allow students to keep a draft version of the submission on the system, only submitting it when it is final.

• At Attempts reopened, click the Help icon to help you decide which option to select.

• If you select anything other than Never at Attempts reopened, at Maximum attempts select the maximum number of attempts at this assignment that you will allow.

9. Will this assignment involve group submission?

• If no, continue to the next step.

• If yes, under Group submission settings:

  • At Students submit in groups select Yes.

  • At Require group to make a submission, select Yes if appropriate (the Require students click submit button under Submissions settings must be selected Yes for this check box to be active).

  • At Require all group members submit, select Yes only if you want to prevent users who are not in a group from submitting an assignment.

  • Select the appropriate Grouping for students groups from the drop-down list.

10. In the Notifications section:

• At Notify graders about submissions, select No unless it is particularly important that teachers be notified of each individual submission. Be sure to select No if you will be setting up blind marking for this assignment.

• If you selected No at Notify graders about submissions, you can also choose whether you want to Notify graders about late submissions.

• At Default setting for "Notify students", you can set the default value for the Notify students check box on the grading form. The default setting is No.

11. Complete the Grade section.

• • At Grade, select the maximum attainable mark (or the appropriate scale) for this assignment from the drop-down list.

  • At Grading method, you can choose to mark the assignment by simply assigning a grade, or using a marking guide or a rubric.

  • At Grade category select the Gradebook category where you want this assignment's marks to be placed (if used).

  • At Grade to pass enter the minimum grade required to pass. This is used in activity and course completion (if activated) and highlights pass/fail marks in the gradebook.

  • Select whether you want Blind marking to be done for this assignment. Once an assignment has been submitted or a mark entered for the assignment, you will not be able to change the blind marking setting.

  • Select No at Use marking workflow if you do not want to set up multiple rounds of marking and manually release marks to students. If you do, leave Yes selected.

    • • This setting allows you to select the marking stage you have reached for each assignment. The stages are as follows:

        • • Not marked - The marker has not yet started marking the submission.

          • In marking - The marker has begun marking the submission, but not yet finished.

          • Marking completed - A mark has been assigned for a submission, but is not yet finalised.

          • In review - The marking is being reviewed.

          • Ready for release - The mark has been finalised, but the student cannot yet access it.

        • Released - The student can access the mark and/or feedback.

For example, if you want to release all grades at the same time, you and the other markers would, as you marked each submission, select the workflow state Marking completed before moving on to the next submission. Then, when all grades were ready for release to students, you would select students in the submission list and change their marking workflow state to Released in a single operation.

• • Select Yes at Use marking allocation if you want to allocate students to a specific marker to selected students.