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How to do writing assignments in Moodle with deadlines, file and response file upload and MS-Word tracked changes

2012/01/20 plagwitz Leave a comment

Benefits
1. Keep the cohort in shape and focus it on studying by enforcing deadlines.
2. You can have students automatically receive reminders of the upcoming deadlines from their calendar (in NINERMAIL, no need to even look at the Moodle Calendar)
3. You can save time managing the assignment.
  1. Moodle does it for you; you will save even more time once you begin recycling your assignment across terms) and rather provide more timely feedback, and improve changes that your feedback arrives during a teachable moment.
  2. Automatic email notifications, which are available in Moodle for teachers (if you do not prefer to grade student submissions in a batch) and students to (automatic correction and grading is not ready for prime-time when it comes to essay writing; you may however consider teaching some more basic writing skills using it with close-exercises in Moodle).
4. Costs
  1. You need to TBA:create a Moodle file upload assignment for writing (once)
  2. You need to grade a Moodle file upload assignment for writing (any time you assign; depending on your preference as submissions arrive or conveniently as a batch from the gradebook past the deadline)
    1. I prefer the MS-Word reviewing features for grading writing assignments,
    2. but other tools have other affordances, e.g. like recently described here for Adobe Acrobat Professional.
  3. Moodle does not automatically add unique usernames to student submitted files like Blackboard. It also does not afford the TBA:convenience of a shared network storage that the WebDAV-based Blackboard Content system provides. However, as long as you do not need to maintain a local archive of student submissions, you can rely on the Moodle gradebook managing the archive of assignment files (student submissions and teacher response files).
  4. How? These 4 posts guide you through the entire workflow from teacher to student back to teacher to student:

Categories: assignments, audience-is-teachers, e-languages, lms, office-software, Writing Tags: 1.9, gradebook, moodle, MS-Word, reviewing, simple-file-upload

How a teacher grades a Moodle simple file upload assignment

2012/01/13 plagwitz 1 comment

When you initially createdyour single file upload assignment, there were no student submissions:
Once there are, the link in the upper right of the assignment will tell you and take you right to the gradebook:
Here you have an (1) overview who has submitted, and can click (2) to grade;
In the grading dialogue, you can (1) download and open the file submission (see techniques of grading student audio submissions with Audacity), (2) write comments as you assess the file, (3) assign a final grade and (4) save and move on to the next submission (fastest, when you do batch grading, the notify student of your grading feedback is still useful under these circumstances, but even more so when you your self asked to be notified by email of student submissions as they come in: faster feedback)

Categories: assignments, audience-is-teachers, e-learning, lms, Speaking Tags: audacity, moodle, simple-file-upload

How a teacher creates a Moodle Single file upload assignment, with optional attached file

2012/01/13 plagwitz 1 comment

turn editing on
add activity / simple file upload
Write the assignment instructions
For your students to be able to download a fle with additional information (e.g. the model recording), select some text pointing to it and click the link icon on the editor menu
(1) button: “browse”, (2) click your file uploaded into your moodle course earlier, have the window close and (3) your URL appear (or type one manually, if the file is from the WWW), (4) click button: “ok”:
Voilà, your link:
set the other assignment options according to your needs :
click button: “save and display”, you are done: