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Assignment set-up guide (individual and group)

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Assignment set-up guide (individual and group)

For information about Accipio Grade, including how to implement it in your course or department, please contact the Eden Digital Education team at Eden.Digital@lse.ac.uk.

Why use it?

This activity allows students to submit work for teachers to grade and give feedback on.

Students will be able to submit any digital content (one or multiple files), such as documents, media content or spreadsheets. Alternatively, students might be able to submit their work typing directly into the Text Editor.

A student can submit as an individual or as a member of a group.

Use this activity to provide grades and feedback using features such as:

  • Feedback types (comments, online annotation, feedback files, audio).

  • Turnitin plugin.

  • Grade (point, scale, or advanced grading criteria).

  • Anonymous submissions (hides the students' identity from markers).

  • Marking workflow (set different marking stages and release grades at once).

  • Marking allocation (allocate marker to students).

Step 1: Add an Assignment

Go to the course page and Turn editing on. Scroll to the section where you want your activity to be displayed, click Add an activity or resource and pick Assignment.

Moodle page with red arrows pointing to 'edit mode on' and 'add an activity or resource' button.
Once editing is turned on, select ‘Add an activity or resource’ at the bottom of the page.

You can duplicate an Assignment by selecting the three dots ‘More’ dropdown on the existing assignment.

On a Moodle assignment activity, the dropdown is open showing more options, such as 'Duplicate' or 'Delete'.
You can also select the three dots ‘More menu’ on an existing assignment for more options, like duplicating the existing assignment.

Step 2: Settings

Tip: Click on the question mark icon next to any setting to display extra help or click on Moodle Docs for this page link at the bottom of each page in Moodle for accessing context-specific documentation.

General

Type a short self-explanatory Assignment name title and a Description which explains to the students what the assignment is about, or use it to give students instructions. Optionally, add any supporting Additional files.

Long assignment names can cause file-download issues, especially if trying to save to Sharepoint. Use a short, clear title such as the course code followed by the assignment type (e.g. MY100 Formative Essay). You can always add a text or media label on the course page to provide additional context.

Availability

Allow submissions from

If enabled, students will not be able to submit before the set date.

This feature allows students to see and plan ahead for upcoming assignments, while also preventing them from submitting the assignment too early, such as before important topics have been discussed.

Due date

If enabled, submitted work after this date will be marked as late.

Cut-off date

If set, students will not be able to submit after the set date.

Remind me to grade by

Set an expected date for marking to be completed by. A reminder will be displayed on the Dashboard page.

Moodle dashboard grading reminder with one assignment due to be graded by 1 April 2026.
Grading reminders show on the Dashboard if you’ve set a date for ‘Remind me to grade by’.

Submission types

Submission types

Tick the preferred submission type option.

  • File submissions: allow students to upload one or more files.

  • Media collection: enable students to choose a gallery as their submission. To enable this submission type, you must already have added a Media collection activity to your course (see info panel).

  1. Add a Media collection activity to your course for students to create galleries and upload their media content.

  2. Make sure you have selected either Assignment collection or Peer reviewed assignment collection as the Collection type in the Media collection settings page.

  3. After uploading their content into the Media collection activity, students can then navigate to their Assignment activity to select and submit their created galleries.

Students must create their galleries and add content from the Media collection activity or they will not be able to submit.

  • Online audio (PoodLL): allow students to record audio as part of their submission.

  • Online text: students will be able to type text directly into the Moodle text editor field for their submission.

Online text submissions also allow students to upload videos with the Echo360 plugin.

Maximum number of uploaded files

Allow students to submit one or multiple files.

Accepted file types

Set further restrictions on the types of files that can be uploaded.

Feedback types

Provide feedback in the following ways:

Feedback comments

Allows graders to leave comments.

Annotate PDF

Allows graders to annotate online using comments, stamps and other features.

Offline grading worksheet

This is useful if you wish to download the grading worksheet and edit it in a program such as MS Excel. When the marker has completed their grading offline, they can then upload the worksheet, confirm the changes and the grades and comments will be uploaded to the assignment activity.

View Provide grades and feedback using the offline marking worksheet

Feedback files

Allows graders to upload files with feedback when marking. These files may be the marked student assignments, documents with comments, a completed feedback form and marking criteria. Feedback files can be uploaded individually or in bulk.

View Provide grades and feedback with bulk upload of feedback files

Submission settings

Require students to click the submit button

If enabled, students will have to click on the Submit button to declare their work as final, otherwise it will remain in draft status.

We do not recommend the use of the ‘Require students to click the submit button’ feature as it prevents students from editing their submission, even if the due date has not yet passed. Additionally, if students have access to their Turnitin similarity report, then students would not be able to make edits after seeing the report with this feature set to ‘Yes’.

Additional attempts

Determine how students' attempts are re-opened.

  • Manually: the teacher will manually need to enable the student to re-submit.

  • Automatically until pass: the student will be able to re-submit until the set passing grade is achieved.

Assignments using ‘Automatically until pass’ cannot upload grading worksheets at this time. We recommend setting ‘Additional attempts’ to ‘Manual’.

Maximum attempts

Set how many times can a student re-submit.

Group submission settings

Students submit in groups

If set to Yes, students will submit as members of a group according to the Groups set in the course. This means that only one member of the group needs to submit on behalf of the group.

Grouping for student groups

If required, select the appropriate grouping.

Note: This option will only be available once ‘Students submit in groups’ is set to ‘Yes’.

Moodle Group Submission Settings section

Grade

Grade

If this assignment does not need either grading or feedback, set the grade to None. Set Point for a numeric grade or select a Scale.

Anonymous submissions

This is enabled by default so the students' identity will be hidden from markers, that is, everyone with a Teacher or Teacher (Editor) role.

Managers will see the students' identities by default.

This setting cannot be undone once a submission has been made.

Use marking workflow

This is enabled by default. This will help you control the stages of marking, including the release of marks and feedback.

View Use Marking workflow for Assignments

Use marking allocation

If enabled, you can allocate one marker to each student or to a group of students.

Note: It is not possible to allocate multiple markers to each student or group of students.

View Use marking allocation

Allow partial release of grades while marking anonymously

If use marking workflow and anonymous submissions are enabled, this setting becomes available. If enabled, grades can be released to students without having to reveal student identities.

Common module settings

Group mode

If Group mode is set to to Separate Groups, this will later allow you to filter students submissions, such as per seminar group.

Group Mode allows you to use one assignment for multiple teacher/seminar groups on a course. All students on the course can submit their assignment, then each teacher can filter by their seminar group to mark their class’s work. You can also use the Allow partial release of marking feature, which means a teacher can release their marks without having to wait for other teachers to finish their marking as well.

Grouping

If you’ve set up a Grouping in your course and the Groups that you want to filter by are within that Grouping, then select it from the dropdown menu. Otherwise, all groups will be available in the Submissions table.

For example, if your course has groupings set up for ‘Project Groups’ and ‘Seminar groups’, if you set the Grouping to ‘Seminar Groups’, then teachers can filter the Submissions table based upon which seminar groups they are in charge for, hiding the submissions they aren’t responsible for and streamlining their marking.

Turnitin plugin settings

For guidance on these settings, please see the following guide:

Type of Activity or Resource

This mandatory field must be completed for every assignment. It is used for reporting and future assessment improvements.

Select the resource type from the dropdown menu.

Accipio Gradingflow

For guidance on these settings, please contact the Eden Digital Education team at Eden.Digital@lse.ac.uk.

Step 3: Create the assignment

Click Save and display to create the assignment.