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UR Courses - Assignment

Assignments are an important part of the online classroom. It is an easy way to gather and track student

submissions. The feedback options provide instructors a simple way to send grades and comments back

to the student.

There are three different assignment types:

Assignment – digital submissions or allows students to enter text directly.

Media Assignment – students create or upload media that is stored on the Kaltura server.

Turnitin Assignment – submissions are checked for plagiarism.

A. Add an Assignment To create an assignment:

1. Click Turn editing on.

2. Click on the Add an activity or resource link in the desired section.

3. Open the Activities tab and select Assignment.

B. Assignment Settings General:

1. Enter an Assignment name.

2. Enter a Description including instructions and details regarding the assignment. It is

recommended to paste the description from the Syllabus to avoid discrepancies.

3. Put a check mark on Display description on course page to display the description in the course

page for students, if desired.

4. If there are additional files, drag and drop those into the file upload box.

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Availability settings:

1. Choose the dates: When to allow submissions to begin, the due date and the cut-off date for

late assignments. If these are not enabled, the assignment is ongoing.

2. Always show description: If this option is not selected, students will not see the assignment

description until the submissions are allowed.

Submission types:

1. Submission types: Choose the desired

type of submissions. File submissions

allow students to upload a file as their

submission. Online text allows students

to type submissions directly into Moodle.

2. Maximum number of uploaded files

3. Maximum submission size: Students can

upload files to a maximum of 16 MB.

4. Accepted file types: Restrict the accepted file types for the assignment.

5. Word limit: Limit students word count. This option is only available for online text.


Feedback types:

1. Feedback types:

Feedback comments – leave feedback comments for each submission.

Feedback files – upload a file (ex. A rubric, etc) for the submission.

Offline grading worksheet – download and upload a worksheet.

2. Comment inline: If enabled, the submission text will be copied into the feedback comment field

during grading, making it easier to comment inline (using a different colour, perhaps) or to edit

the original text.

Submission settings:

1. Require students click submit button:

If enabled, students must click a

Submit button to declare their

submission as final. If disabled, when

the assignment closes, all submissions

will be submitted (recommended).

2. Require that students accept the

submission statement: Require that

students accept the submission

statement for all submissions to this assignment.

3. Attempts reopened: Determines how student submission attempts are reopened. The options

are:

Never - The student submission cannot be reopened.

Manually - The student submission can be reopened by a teacher.

Automatically until pass - The student submission is automatically reopened until the

student achieves the grade to pass value set in the Gradebook (Categories and items

section) for this assignment.

4. Maximum attempts: The maximum number of submissions attempts that can be made by a

student. After this number of attempts has been made the student's submission will not be able

to be reopened.

Group submission settings:

1. Students submit in groups: If enabled students will be divided into groups based on the default

set of groups or a custom grouping. A group submission will be shared among group members

and all members of the group will see each other’s changes to the submission. Unless groups

have been created within UR Courses, do not use this option.


Notifications:

1. Notify graders about submissions: If enabled,

teachers will receive a message whenever a student

submits an assignment.

2. Notify graders about late submissions: If enabled,

graders (usually teachers) receive a message

whenever a student submits an assignment late.

3. Default setting for “Notify students”: Set the default

value for the "Notify students" checkbox on the grading form.

Turnitin plagiarism plugin settings:

1. Enable Turnitin: This setting controls

whether the Turnitin plugin is used

for the assignment.

2. Displaying Originality Reports to

Students: Displays Turnitin originality

reports to students.

3. When should the file be submitted to

Turnitin?: Can submit the file

immediately or wait until the

assignment closes.

4. Allow submission of any file type?:

Allows any file type to be used with

the Turnitin originality report if set to

“Yes”.

5. Store Student Papers: This setting

allows you to decide if the submitted

papers are stored to be used as a

resource to check for originality reports for future assignments.

6. Check against stored student papers: Select “Yes” to have the submissions checked against

stored student papers, or “No” to not check against stored student papers.

7. Check against internet: Select “Yes” to have the submissions checked against internet sources,

or “No” to not check against internet sources for originality.

8. Check against journals, periodicals and publications: Select “Yes” to have the submissions

checked against these sources, or “No” to not check against these sources.

9. Report Generation Speed: Select when you want the originality report is to be produced. If

resubmissions are allowed, they may take up to 24 hours to produce results.

10. Exclude Bibliography: Select whether or not to include the Bibliography.


11. Exclude Quoted Material: Select whether or not any quoted material in the submission is

checked for originality.

12. Exclude Small Matches: Exclude small matches from the originality report percentage. Select

“Yes” to define the size of the “small match”.

13. Attached a rubric to this assignment: Create a rubric using Turnitin’s Rubric Manager and use it

in the marking scheme for the assignment.

Grade:

1. Grade: Select the type of grading used for this activity. If "scale" is chosen, choose the scale

(pass/fail, satisfactory or separate and connected ways of knowing) from the "scale" dropdown.

If using "point" grading, enter the maximum grade available for this activity.

2. Grading Method: Choose the advanced grading method for calculating grades in the given

context. To disable advanced grading and switch back to the default grading mechanism, choose

'Simple direct grading'.

3. Grade category: This setting controls the category in which this activity's grades are placed in

the gradebook.

4. Grade to pass: The minimum grade required to pass.

5. Blind marking: Blind marking hides the identity of students from markers. Blind marking settings

will be locked once a submission or grade has been made in relation to this assignment.

6. Use marking workflow: If enabled, marks go through a series of workflow stages before being

released to students. This allows for multiple rounds of marking and allows marks to be released

to all students at the same time.

7. Use marking allocation: If enabled together with marking workflow, markers can be allocated to

particular students.

Common module settings:

1. Availability: Show will make the assignment visible for students. Hide will make it invisible.

2. ID number: The ID number provides a way to identify the activity for grade calculation purposes.

3. Group mode: The group mode defined at course level is the default mode for all activities within

the course. Each activity that supports groups can also define its own group mode, though if the

group mode is forced at course level, the group mode setting for each activity is ignored. This

setting has 3 options:

No groups - There are no sub groups.

Separate groups - Each group member can only see their own group, others are

invisible.

Visible groups - Each group member works in their own group, but can also view other

groups.

4. Grouping: A grouping is a collection of groups within a course. If a grouping is selected, students

assigned to groups within the grouping will be able to work together.

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Restrict access:

The restrict access section allows for restrictions to be placed on activities.

Date – Prevent access until (or from) a specified date and time.

Grade – Require students to achieve a specified grade.

Group – Allow only students who belong to a specific group or all groups.

Grouping – Allow only students who belong to a group within a specified grouping.

Mobile App – Require students to access (or not access) using the Mobile app.

User Profile – Control access based on fields within the student’s profile.

Restriction set – Add a set of nested restrictions to apply complex logic.

Activity completion:

1. Completion tracking: If enabled, activity completion is tracked, either manually or

automatically, based on certain conditions. Multiple conditions may be set and the activity will

only be complete when ALL conditions are met. A tick next to the activity name on the course

page indicates when the activity is complete.

2. Require view: Students must view the activity to complete it.

3. Require grade: If enabled, the activity is considered complete when a student receives a grade.

Pass and fail icons may be displayed if a pass grade for the activity has been set.

4. Expect completed on: This setting specifies the date when the activity is expected to be

completed. The date is not shown to students and is only displayed in the activity completion

report.

C. Edit Assignment Settings 1. Open the Assignment.

2. Open the Actions menu and select Edit settings.

3. Adjust settings as desired and press Save and display.


D. User and Group Overrides Overrides can be entered for assignments to allow particular individuals or groups different submission

times.

To setup a user/group override:

1. Open the Assignment.

2. Open the Actions menu and select either User or Group overrides.

3. Click Add user override or Add group override.

4. In the search field, enter the user or group to override. It is best to use ID numbers to search for

users

5. Enter the new Allow submissions from, Due date and Cut-off dates.

6. Select Save or Save and enter another override to add additional overrides.

E. Managing Assignment Submission To grade an assignment:

1. Select the Assignment name on the course page.

2. Details of the assignment appear:

Participants: number of participants in the

course.

Submitted: number of submission.

Needs grading: number of participants

that have not received a grade.

3. Click on View all submissions to see all

submissions.

4. The Status Column will identify students who have uploaded a submission.


5. Click the title of the submission to download and view the student submission.

6. Click Grade to enter grades, submit comments and upload feedback for the student.

7. In the Grade field, enter the student’s grade.

8. To input comments for the student, enter them in the Feedback comments section.

9. For any feedback files, drag and drop the files into the Feedback Files section.

10. Press Save changes or Save and show next to move to the next student.


To download all assignments:

1. Select the Assignment name.

2. Click on View all submissions to see all submissions.

3. In the grading action menu, choose Download all

submissions. Submissions will download as a zip file

and will need to be extracted.

4. A zip file will download. Open the file and click Extract

and Extract all.

Note: After downloading all submissions, if the file name is kept the same when creating feedback, all

files can be uploaded back in one upload using the Upload multiple feedback files in a zip.

I. Grading using Turnitin:

If Turnitin integration was enabled for the assignment, feedback can be entered into the Turnitin

Document Viewer.

To open the Document Viewer:

1. Select the Assignment name.


3. In the File Submission column, press the pencil icon to view the submission.

4. The Turnitin Document Viewer will open.


a. Grade – Enter the grade for the submission. This grade will automatically be entered into the UR

Courses gradebook.

b. Grading options – Click anywhere on the submission to open the grading options.

Quickmark – Uses the defined quickmark options (Ex. Improper Citation, Awk., etc.).

Comment – Creates a free text comment field that appears as a comment bubble.

Inline – Creates an inline comment which appears as text.

c. Grading actions – Use these actions to add a rubric or add a voice comment.

d. Similarity actions – See below for detailed similarity options.

Similarity

The Filter option allows the user to adjust what will constitute similarity (Ex. Amount of words, etc.).

In the above example, 11% of the submission is similar to another source. The listing of sources

identifies what percentage of the submission comes from each source. For example, Source 1 is in red

font and 6% of similiarities come from this source. In the submission, all sections from source 1 will be in

red font with an identifier of 1.

In the above example, because Quoted material was not excluded from the similarity check, Turnitin

flagged this portion as similar. High similarity numbers may not be indicative of the actual similarity

depending on what setting choices have been made.


F. Rubrics Rubrics are an advanced grading method used for criteria-based assessment. The rubric consists of a set

of criteria plotted against levels of achievement. A numeric grade is assigned to each level. For each

criterion, the assessor chooses the level they judge the work to have reached. The raw rubric score is

calculated as a sum of all criteria grades. The final grade is calculated by comparing the actual score with

the worst/best possible score that could be received.

To define a rubric:


2. Press to edit the Assignment settings and select Advanced grading.

3. Select Rubric in the Change active grading method to dropdown menu.

4. Select Define new grading form from scratch.

5. Enter the Rubric name and, if desired, a description for the Rubric.

6. Press Add criterion to add additional criterion.

7. Press Click to edit level to add a description for the point level. To edit an already entered

description, click the description to edit.

8. Press Add level to add another level to the grading levels for the criterion.


To grade an assignment using a rubric:


2. Details of the assignment will appear:

Participants: number of participants in the course.

Submitted: number of participants in the course who submitted their assignment.

Needs grading: number of participants that have not received a grade.


4. Press Grade to begin grading.

5. Change the view in the bottom righthand corner to make the rubric full screen.

6. For each criterion, click the grade level that is appropriate for the submission. Selections will

appear with a green background.

7. Press Save changes.

Example: The student received 3 points for Content, 1 point for Design and 2 points for Creativity for a

total of 6 points. As this assignment has 9 possible points, the student received a 6 out of 9 for this

assignment.

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