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General guidance for online assessments delivered using the Assignment activity
- Eoin Meade
- Athina Chatzigavriil (Unlicensed)
IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS GUIDANCE PLEASE EMAIL Eden.Digital@lse.ac.uk
- 1 Introduction
- 2 A. Ensure students have access (are enrolled) on the Moodle course
- 3 B. Communicate to your students the requirements of their assessment
- 4 C. Create and set-up an Assignment activity
- 4.1 1. Create and set-up the Assignment for the current year students
- 4.1.1 1.1. General
- 4.1.2 1.2. Availability
- 4.1.3 1.3. Submission types
- 4.1.4 1.4. Feedback types
- 4.1.5 1.5. Feedback criteria
- 4.1.6 1.6. Submission settings
- 4.1.7 1.7. Group submission settings
- 4.1.8 1.8. Notification
- 4.1.9 1.9. Turnitin plugin settings
- 4.1.10 1.10. Grade
- 4.1.11 1.11. Common module settings
- 4.1.12 1.12. Restrict access
- 4.1.13 1.13. Activity completion/Tags/Competencies
- 4.1.14 1.14. Save the Assignment settings
- 4.1.15 1.15. Make the Assignment link visible to students
- 4.2 2. Set up an Assignment for previous year students (i.e. if they are examined in a different paper)
- 4.3 3. Providing for students with Central Exam Adjustments (CEAs)?
- 4.4 4. Set up a dummy/practice Assignment
- 4.1 1. Create and set-up the Assignment for the current year students
- 5 D. Student guides
- 6 E. Additional information
- 6.1 Student view
- 6.2 Marker views
Introduction
This guide aims to provide you with all the information required to prepare for the assessment formats in the following table:
24-hour assessments | One-week assessments | Longer coursework pieces |
48-hour assessments | Two-week assessments | Time limited assessments with a common start/finish time for all students |
72-hour assessments | Three-week assessments |
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If you need to set up Time limited assessment to be taken at any time within a 24-hour window, please visit General guidance for online assessments delivered using the Quiz activity.
Important note
Departmental staff setting up online assessments on Moodle course(s), must ensure that the Assignment submission link appears in an appropriate place on the Moodle page (where the students can easily locate and identify it).
Departmental staff are required to configure settings, check that all students are enrolled, apply restrictions etc. and upload all the relevant information (i.e. Assessment paper, instructions to candidates etc.)
Please read the instructions below carefully, regardless of your familiarity with Moodle. Some settings are designed to increase the security of the uploaded ‘Assessment paper’, and ensure the smooth running of the online assessment.
Assessment readiness checklist
About this checklist
This checklist is a quick reference of important actions.
By going through this checklist, you should feel reassured that you have taken all the right steps to prepare your assessment submission links in Moodle and to support your students taking online assessments.
Revisit the checklist once you have prepared your assessment links, for a final check-up.
Quick checklist:
Have you checked that all students (registered, deferred, resit etc.) who should take the assessment are enrolled into the Moodle course and have the correct role (i.e. Student or Auditing Student)?
Have you enabled self enrolment for those students entitled to take the assessment that may have been missed out?
Have you removed the self enrolment password/enrolment key from your course (if applicable)?
Have you communicated to your students the assessment guidance (including details of support available during the assessment period)?
Have you uploaded the ‘Assessment paper and instructions to candidates' and the 'Coversheet for submission’ to the Moodle Assignment(s)?
Have you updated the Moodle Assignment settings ('Allow submissions from' date and time & ‘Due date’ and time) with the time set to the relevant time (UK time)?
Have you added the ‘Restrict access’ criterion based on the assessment ‘Allow submissions from’ date and time?
Where required, have you created separate Moodle Assignments for deferred, resit etc. students (i.e. students who are required to answer different assessment questions)?
Have you created a dummy/practice Assignment for your students to practice submitting, reduce anxiety and identify any technical/other problems?
Have you informed your students about an alternative submission method (e.g. programme email address) in case of technical difficulties? (See sample template for wording below).
Have you built in additional time for preparing the files for upload where appropriate? (See sample template for wording below).
Have you informed your students of the relevant guides for this assessment? We have produced the following student guides:
A. Ensure students have access (are enrolled) on the Moodle course
1. Manage enrolments
To check students are enrolled on the Moodle course, follow the steps below.
Log into Moodle and go to the course you want to check.
On the Administration block, at the left hand side of the screen, use the arrow icon in front of Users to expand and see the available options. Click Enrolled users.
You will now see all the enrolled Participants. Ensure all the students who will take the assessment are listed on this screen.
If you need to manually enrol a missing student, click on the Enrol users button, and search for the student you want to add, assigning them the role Student.
If you need to manually remove any student(s), use the bin icon, next to a student's name as shown below.