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Applies Refers to Moodle 3.44.1 from December 2023 onwards

How to: Download all submissions from a Moodle Assignment dropbox

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  • When students have submitted their

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  • work to your assignment dropbox, and the deadline has passed, you can download all the

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  • submissions together as a single .zip file
  • You can use this feature to

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  • mark

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  • the submissions offline before uploading back into the module for feedback.
  • If you wish to share submissions post grading (for example; if the submissions are

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  • group posters

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  • ) you

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  • can post

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  • the zip

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  • file back into the module for all

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  • students to access.

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To download submissions

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  1. When the submission deadline has passed, navigate to the relevant module and click on the 'Moodle Assignment' activity.
  2. Select 'View all submissions' above the Grading Summary.

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                  The student information table will then be loaded for this assignment.

4. At this point LOCK SUBMISSIONS to prevent students resubmitting and overwriting the version you have will have marked. To lock submissions:

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3. On the student information table, your first task should be to Lock Submissions by selecting All > With selected... Lock Submissions > Go.

[If there are some students who have not yet submitted or you are expecting late submissions then at some point you will need to reopen the box for those students to allow them to submit.]

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    • From the With selected… dropdown menu beneath the table select Lock submissions and press Go.    
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    • A popup message will appear asking if you want to lock all selected submissions. Press OK.

       

5.  Scroll  to the bottom of the table and select   Download submissions in folders

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4. A popup will appear to make sure you wish to lock the submissions. Click 'OK'.

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5.  Scroll down to Options and make sure that the 'Download submissions in folders' checkbox has been ticked.

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6. Now, scroll back up to the area above the list of student submissions. Look to the top right, and click 'Download all submissions'

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The .Depending on your browser, the zip file will download either be sent directly to your downloads folder OR A pop-up window will appear giving you the option to Open file or Save file to the downloads folder.

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Note:  The zip will automatically be saved in your Downloads folder on your computer.  It It will be named the same as your Module short name (see ADMINISTRATION block > Module administration > Edit settings).

This zip file contains a folder for each student. (If anonymous it will show their Moodle student ID—not the same as their SATURN/Campus ID)

The next steps take place outside Moodle, on your computer.

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Accessing the downloaded zip

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At the moment we (We recommend this is carried out on a desktop PC or Mac or a Surface Pro rather than an iPad.)

Unzip the folder: , extract the files . Move them to an area in your file folders named for your assignmentand move them to a new folder that has been named to match the Module short name.

Location of the Module

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short name 

  1. Go to the front page of your Moodle module.
  2. Click Settings on the main sub-navigation bar.
  3. The "Module short name" will appear in the General section

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