How to download all submissions from a Moodle Assignment dropbox

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Refers to Moodle 3.6 from July 2019 onward

How to: Download all submissions from a Moodle Assignment dropbox

When students have submitted their work to your assignment dropbox, and the deadline has passed, you can download all the submissions together as a single .zip file
You can use this feature to mark 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 group posters) you can post the zip back into the module for all students to access.

Downloading submissions

Go into your module in Moodle
Go into your previously created Moodle Assignment dropbox after the due date has passed
Click on the View all submissions hyperlink

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:

- Tick the Select tick-box to select all students. [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.]

- From the With selected… dropdown menu beneath the table select Lock submissions and press Go.
- 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

6. Scroll back up. From the Grading action drop-down menu at the top of the page, Select 'Download all submissions'

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

Note: The zip will automatically be saved in your Downloads folder on your computer. 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.

Accessing the downloaded zip

At the moment 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 assignment.

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