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I have used Moodle assignments. I used the rubric option on a couple, which would be good for marking as it indicates what aspects gives the student a particular mark and there is an option to add further comments, thus good for feedback. The rubric is a little unwieldy to set up but not impossible, however it would have been beneficial to have been able to use a rubric there are limitations on the system: for example it's not possible to combine use of a rubric for one section of text and free marking for another then combine the mark, but this wasn?t an optionsection of the same text.
The display of the rubric within Moodle.Nottingham Have youUoN moodle is almost unworkable and is poor for students too – it doesn?t use the fact that we have widescreens, so staff and students alike end up scrolling up and down and back and forth.
Electronic submission worked OK
It For electronic submission it was reasonably good and it is possible to download all the submissions in one compressed file which is better than WebCT. The problem is that Moodle renames the submissions and uses first name for some bizarre reason, rather than last name, so then I had to go and strip off the first part of the filename so that we could actually sort them alphabetically by surname. I won?t be using the rubric – I?ve created a spreadsheet that pulls in student names and ID, creates a marks/feedback sheet from the list for each student, this is part automated rubric (that generates comments based on the mark given) and part free marking, it populates the student list with a final mark column, etc. and then will generate an individual pdf for each student that I am likely to email out automatically. I will then use the spreadsheet to populate the marks in Moodle so that they have a record of the mark but the feedback is given separately. Unfortunately, I can?t find a way of uploading the pdf?s to each student without doing it manually – for 160 plus this is not trivial.
The students don?t mind on-line are happy with online submission because of the nature of the subjects.
It can , however Moodle can be a little confusing because they don?t always remember to submit and often just upload what Moodle terms a draft.
They then panic after the deadline and hit submitSubmit, then Moodle will then show this as a late submission.
We had to check a couple of `histories? to verify whether they were actually late submissions or had been inadventently `submitted? after the deadline. Tips
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As an alternative to the Moodle Assignment In the School Chemistry Turnitin is used even when the submissions are not text (in their case forumulae)
It enables them to use the GradeMark feature within Turnitin
. Unfortunately, I can?t find a way of uploading the pdf?s to each student without doing it manually – for 160 plus this is not trivial.
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