{"id":2348,"date":"2013-09-06T10:07:39","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T10:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/elearningteam\/?p=2348"},"modified":"2013-09-06T16:15:42","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T16:15:42","slug":"changes-to-the-assignment-module-in-moodle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/elearningteam\/2013\/09\/06\/changes-to-the-assignment-module-in-moodle\/","title":{"rendered":"Making the Moodle assignment module easy to use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last year we have made a few changes to the assignment tool in Moodle to improve the student and tutors&#8217; experience.<\/p>\n<p>We tried to simplify assignments by removing the confusing (or never intentionally used) options and adding in a few features our tutors did need including a &#8216;release the feedback&#8217; button.<\/p>\n<p>For tutors part of the work involved rationalising the rather confusing and dated view submissions table.<\/p>\n<p>[vimeo]https:\/\/vimeo.com\/73460350[\/vimeo]<\/p>\n<p>Our improvements for tutors included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>reducing the number of options available, such as &#8220;send for marking&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>enabling automated renaming of files using student name or candidate number so that they were unique<\/li>\n<li>enabling anonymization for blind marking<\/li>\n<li>enabling all submissions to be downloaded at once (in groups if desired)<\/li>\n<li>improving the student submission list and making it responsive so it works on all platforms including mobiles<\/li>\n<li>improving the experience when giving feedback and grading<\/li>\n<li>allowing tutors to choose when grades are released<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For students the experience is hopefully clearer and simpler.<\/p>\n<p>[vimeo]https:\/\/vimeo.com\/73460349[\/vimeo]<\/p>\n<p>Our improvements for students included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>displaying the due date on the course page<\/li>\n<li>making the due date prominent in the assignment itself<\/li>\n<li>improving the display when uploading their assignment &#8211; giving important information<\/li>\n<li>improving the display when\u00a0receiving feedback<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We appreciate that improvements are being made to the core assignment tool which we are looking forward to seeing in Moodle 2.6.<\/p>\n<p>I will be posting shortly about our proposed solution for Turnitin and Grademark integration with Moodle. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last year we have made a few changes to the assignment tool in Moodle to improve the student and tutors&#8217; experience. We tried to simplify assignments by removing the confusing (or never intentionally used) options and adding in a few features our tutors did need including a &#8216;release the feedback&#8217; button. For tutors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213,3,35,64],"tags":[241,240,242,92],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/elearningteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/elearningteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/elearningteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/elearningteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/elearningteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2348"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/elearningteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2368,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/elearningteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348\/revisions\/2368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/elearningteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/elearningteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/elearningteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}