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Moodle has various ways of marking and providing feedback online.  This method is the most straightforward for providing individual grades and feedback. It allows markers to view the submitted work as on the same screen that they provide feedback comments, which should reduce errors and make the marking process easier.

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See our Assignment set-up guide (individual and group) for the settings.

As per Within the assignment Assignment settings, it is possible to restrict the file types that students can submit. For example, if you want to ensure the work shows up on the marking page, you may want to specify that students have to submit a pdf file if you want the work to show up on the marking page. You can do this in the edit Assignment settings under Submission types, Accepted file types. See our Assignment set-up guide (individual and group) for more information.

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Once the deadline for students to submit has passed, click on the assignment this . This will bring up the Grading summary which will show the number of participants and submissions.  Click on View all submissions to view the submissions table.

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The marking/submissions table lists all students and their submissions.  If ‘anonymous submissions’ is enabled submissions are identified by a number unique to this assignment.  N.B. Those with a Manager role can view student identities even when ‘anonymous submissions’ is enabled.

The table has a variety of filters and columns - see more details on the submissions table guide.

Click on the red Grade button to mark an individual piece of work.  It is also possible to enter marks and feedback directly into the submissions table for . For more information see our quick grade grading guide.

Step 4: Grade an individual assignment

Clicking on Grade will bring up a marking screen with grading options on the right hand side. If the student submitted a PDF file, the individual piece of work will appear in a window on the left hand side. If the student submitted a word document or did not submit anything Word document and the conversion to PDF was unsuccessful, this window will be blank. The window will also be blank if the student did not submit anything. PDF files can be annotated using the tools at the top of the page, for more details see our guide on providing feedback using pdf annotation guide.

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Grade

Depending on your assignment settings you can enter a grade out of 100 or a scale.

Marking workflow state

Marking workflow is enabled by default. The marking workflow can be updated by selecting the correct option from the drop down list, e. E.g from Not marked to Marking completed, or In review.

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Files can be uploaded and attached for each student. For more details on bulk upload of feedback files, see our guide, Provide grades and feedback with bulk upload of feedback files.

Audio feedback

Audio feedback can be recorded and attached. For more details see our guide to on audio feedback.

Save the marks and feedback

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This box is ticked by default. However, however if you are using marking workflow (default setting) students will not be notified until all marks and feedback are released. See our guide on using marking workflow for assignments for more information.

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Select Releasedfrom the drop down options and then save changes. At this stage (and earlier stages) you can choose to Notify studentsby selecting Yesto generate an email.


Students will then be able to review their grades and feedback.

Note: If ‘anonymous submissions’ is in use with marking workflow, the grades are released regardless of whether student identities have been revealed. However, you and other markers are likely to want to reveal identities at some point. If you cannot find the option Reveal student identities in the Grading action drop-downmenu at the top of the submissions table, you will need to ask someone with Teacher (Editor) or higher access to do it.

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