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Moodle Help & Support (Staff)
This refers to Moodle 34.8 from September 2020 onward.1 from December 2023 onwards.
NOTE: The guidance on this page applies to Turnitin Assignments only. Marking in Moodle Assignments should be carried out with the Moodle marking tools. The processes detailed below cannot be used in a Moodle assignment, even with Turnitin similarity reports enabled. The guidance on this page applies to Turnitin Assignments only.
If you mark Turnitin assignments online, you may find this a better way to mark assignments. It requires time to create the rubric criteria but once you've set it up, it can be reused for other assignments in that module.
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Navigating to the Rubric in Turnitin
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- On Moodle, go to the Turnitin assignment you wish to add a grading form or rubric.
If you have had submissions
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You would use this method if you have received at least one assignment.
Go into the Submissions inbox and click on Grade ('blue pencil' icon on the line of the assignment you wish to edit).
- In the assignment click on the Rubric icon.
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- Once you have clicked on the Rubric icon, click on the 'Rubric/Form manager' ('Cogwheel' icon in the top right corner) to to start creating a new rubric or attach a previously created rubric to the assignment
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2. An example Grading Form appears.
Click the hamburger menu in the top left corner. You now have the option to 'Create New Rubric', 'Create New Grading Form' or Upload Rubric or Grading Form.
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Rubric scoring
This determines the way you set up the rubric. The percentage set-up is the most commonly used. The different rubric scoring set-ups (left-right) are explained below:
'Standard rubric': This set-up allows you to set the weighting in percent and enter marks for different scale itemsscale values and percentage criteria.
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'Custom rubric': This removes the ability to weight the criterion but allows you to set different marks for each scale description rather than a whole item e.g. the scale item 'Poor' could be worth 0 in terms of one criterion and worth 1 for another.
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'Qualitative rubric': This removes the ability to weight criterion and add marks to scale items. This is purely based on the feedback. This is helpful for assignments where no grade is required but feedback is essential e.g. in Nottingham Advantage Award modules.
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Criteria
Start by setting up the criteria, considering criterion names and descriptions (what they 're are looking at) and their weighting (if all criteria are not equal). The criterion description is not necessary but can be helpful if you have multiple graders to ensure their understanding of the criteria associated with that criterion. Click directly on the boxes you would like to amend, this brings up a white text box. See example below:
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- "Scale title" helps to distinguish the different scale items and create low-to-high scale set-up.
- "Mark awarded", below, is the number of marks to be awarded for meeting this scale item.
- '+', in the top right corner, to create more scale items.
- In each empty cell, you can write a "Description" of the scale item for each criterion. The general reason why this mark was given and suggestions for improvement. This cannot be amended for each student.
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If you haven't had submissions yet
- Go into the Turnitin assignment you've created created.
- Click on the Rubric Manager icon icon.
3. Start a new rubric by clicking 'Create new rubric'.
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4. Choose which type of rubric (quantitative, custom or qualitative)
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6. Set up titles and marks for levels on the horizontal (see above for explanation).
Creating a
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Grading Form
- Click on the Rubric Manager icon or launch rubric manager (see above)
- Select 'Create new grading form'
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3. Give the rubric Grading Form a "Name" by clicking on the blue pencil at the top of the form.
4. Give each criterion a "Title" (and a "Description" if you wish)
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5. You can choose whether to enable scoring or not. (i.e if you want each to be able to add a mark: you can choose when marking whether to apply it to produce a final grade). Scoring is set to enabled by default, to switch this off just untick the 'Enable Scoring' box at the top of the screen.
6. Click 'Save'
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Now attach the rubric you just created as below.
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- In the rubric, click 'Save'
- Click on the 'Off' button next to "Attach to assignment" in the bottom left corner Ensure the toggle switch to the bottom left of the grading form is switched 'On' to attach the rubric to the assignment.
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To remove a rubric from an assignment
- Click on the toggle switch to the bottom left of the grading form and switch to '
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- to remove the rubric from the assignment.
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Alternatively, you can attach your assignment to any rubric by:
- Go to your Moodle modules site
- Clicking on the 'Turn editing on' in the top right
Press the Edit - .
- In your module, click the 'Edit mode' button to turn editing on (top right).
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3. Press the 'Edit' link next to your Turnitin assignment and then
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press '
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Edit settings'.
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4. Inside the Turnitin assignment settings scroll down and press
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'GradeMark Options
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section.
5. Select the rubric you wish to add from the drop-down menu.
56. Click on 'Save and return to module' when done
67. Click on the 'Turn editing off' button on the toggle switch in the top right of your Moodle pagethe page to turn off 'Edit mode'
Importing/Exporting a rubric
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- Go to your Moodle modules site
- In your module, click the 'Edit mode'Clicking on the 'Turn editing on' in the top right button to turn editing on (top right).
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- Press the Edit link link next to your Turnitin assignment and then pressing press 'Edit settingsEdit settings'
- Click on the Launch rubric manager link under "GradeMark options"
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5. Click on the 'View import/export options' button ('arrow out the box' icon) and select 'Export'.
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6. This downloads a .rbc file. This cannot be opened on your computer but can be easily imported into another assignment in another module (see below).
7. When you have done, save the settings of your assignment on Moodle and click on turn off the 'Turn editing off' button on your Edit mode' toggle switch to the top right of the main Moodle page
Importing a rubric
- Go to your Moodle modules site.
- In your module, click the 'Edit mode'Clicking on the 'Turn editing on' in the top right toggle switch to turn editing on (top right).
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- Press the Edit link link next to your Turnitin assignment and then pressing press 'Edit settingsEdit settings'
- Click on the the Launch rubric manager link under "'GradeMark options"'
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- Click on the 'View import/export options' button ('arrow out the box' icon) and select select 'Import'.
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- If you are importing a previously created rubric exported from Turnitin
- Click 'Select files' and choose your .rbc file
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7. When you have done, save the settings of your assignment on Moodle and click on the 'Turn editing off' button on your main Moodle pagethe 'Edit Mode' toggle switch to turn off editing.
Downloading a rubric report once grading is complete
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