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This refers to Moodle 4.3 from August 2024 onwards.  

How to release grades to students on a particular date

By default, our Moodle is set to show hide the grades to the students as soon as given, but you may want to release grades from the students until they are manually released in the marking workflow.

Marking workflow is an excellent way to manage release of grades for individuals, groups and whole cohorts. It is extremely flexible.

• Using Marking Workflow and Marking Allocation in Moodle Assignment

If you don't want to have to go in and release grades at a particular time, you can also release grades all together on a particular date.  It saves you needing to remember to do this manually (though you can manually change the date if you need to).

To set a “Hidden until” date for grades:

NOTE: It is best to have marking workflow set to OFF if you want to do this. If you still need Marking Workflow as well, ensure that grades are RELEASED  before the date chosen, so that they can be revealed.

Automatically hide grades and feedback until a set date

1. Go to your module and click on the Grades tab.
   
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2. Once in the Grader Report, turn editing on using the button as shown:
   
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3. In the column for the relevant assessment, in the top Controls row, click the Edit (cogwheel) icon
   
   
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4. Click Show more;

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5. For the Hidden until setting, click its Enable checkbox; it becomes editable.

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1. Set the date and time to reveal the marks and feedback on that date.
   
   
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3. In your Moodle module, click on the Turn editing on button (top right).

4. In the Administration block, click on the Grades hyperlink.

Go to the Administration block again and click on the Categories and items hyperlink and select Simple view
    ALTERNATIVELY in Grader report view the drop down menu (top left) and select, under Categories and items,  Simple view
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In the Simple View page click on the cogwheel edit icon next to the activity for which a “Hidden until” date is to be set (in the Actions column)
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5. On the edit Grade item page click “Show more”
6. Enable the “Hidden until” setting by checking the Enable checkbox, then set a date.
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   NOTE: If you are hiding the grades in a column in this way you may wish to hide the Module Total column as well, until the same date, as it may be possible for students to work out their grade from this.
   Click on the Save changes button.Save changes.
   
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