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Assignment: Grading Online

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Moodle Assignment is an activity which allows students to submit electronic copies of their assignments to Moodle.  Moodle Assignment accepts any file type. Only PDFs are able to be annotated within Moodle Assignment.

Use

As long as students have uploaded their assignments as PDFs, markers are able to add comments directly to this PDF within Moodle.  Grades can also be added directly to Moodle.

Adding comments

  1. In the Moodle course where you have set up the Assignment, click on the link to the Assignment. Click to View/grade all submissions.
  2. On the grading page you will see a list of students (or participant numbers if blind marking has been turned on). Click on the pencil icon in the Grade
  3. This takes you in to the individual grading page for each student. Scroll down this page to find the Annotate PDF text in the Grade  Click on the Launch PDF editor button.  The PDF editor appears in a popup window.  The Annotate toolbar is at the top right of the popup window:
  4. Select the comment icon to drag a comment box to where you want it. Type your comment into the box.
  5. Highlight text by selecting the annotation colour icon and then selecting the highlighter pen.
  6. Add a stamp by clicking on the stamp icon and clicking in the text where you want it.
  7. Delete annotations by selecting the arrow icon and then clicking on the dustbin Delete comments by clicking on the drop down list under the comment and selecting Delete comment.
  8. Save your annotations by clicking on the X icon at the top right of the screen. A copy of your comments will be saved. 

Grading

  1. In the Moodle course where you have set up the Assignment, click on the link to the Assignment. Click to View/grade all submissions.
  2. On the grading page you will see a list of students (or participant numbers if blind marking has been turned on). Click on the pencil icon in the Grade
  3. Select the Grade you want from the drop down list. Note that the grade format will depend on what has been selected in the grades section of the Assignment settings.

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This Moodle guide was created by LEADS and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.