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  • Submit coursework to a Moodle Assignment
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Delete and replace coursework submission.

  • View coursework submission
  • Resubmit coursework
  • Access feedback and grade
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It can take time for your file to be uploaded to Moodle and for it to be processed by Turnitin. This can be anywhere from a couple of minutes to up to 30 minutes per file, depending on the size and format of your file and your connection speed. Ensure you leave yourself adequate time to successfully submit your assignment, especially if you are submitting multiple large files.

If you delete an assignment submission, it is your responsibility to ensure that you then submit the correct file before the deadline. Your lecturer will be able to see if you have deleted an assignment but will not be able to access the file and it will not be counted as a submission. If you have uploaded the wrong file as part of your assignment you will be able to delete the file prior to the assignment deadline (unless the Submit assignment button has been enabled)

  • Select the link to Assignments from the Module Dashboard to open a list of all your Moodle assignments. Select the relevant assignment to open it.
  • On Grid format, open the Block drawer and navigate to the Activities block, select the link to Assignments.
  • Your  Submission status  page will open. 
  • Select Remove submission  beneath the assignment description. 
  • Select Continue on the confirmation pop-up.
  • Your submissions status will revert to "No submissions have been made yet". You will need to re-add your submission before the assignment due date.

To re-add your submission:

  • Select the assignment.
  • Select  Add submission.
  • Check the box next to the assessment declaration. 
  • Upload or drag and drop your coursework into the File submissions field.
  • Scroll down and Save changes.
  • You will receive a notification to your City email stating that a submission has been added.
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Documentation

Note: You are currently viewing documentation for Moodle 1.9. Up-to-date documentation for the latest stable version is available here: Adding/editing an assignment .

  • Adding/editing an assignment
  • Upload a single file
  • Online text
  • Offline activity
  • Advanced uploading of files (1.7)
  • Assignment details (pre-1.7)
  • Assignment permissions
  • Viewing an assignment
  • Assignment submissions
  • Assignment FAQ

An Assignment is an activity that a teacher can select by a pull down menu in a course topic or week section. This page is about the Assignment settings, also found with the Update Assignment button.

  • 1 Assignment name
  • 2 Description
  • 4 Available from
  • 6 Prevent late submissions
  • 7 Settings for specific assignment types (1.7 onwards)
  • 8 Assignment type (pre-1.7)
  • 9.1 Group mode
  • 9.2 Visible
  • 9.3 ID number
  • 10 Tips and tricks
  • 11 See also

Assignment name

Give your assignment a name (e.g. “Report on Topic Content”). The name entered here will be the name that learners see in the course content area. Learners will click on this name to view the details of the assignment and, if applicable, submit their work.

Description

The description of the assignment, which should include precise instructions for students regarding the subject of the assignment, the form, in which it should be submitted, the grading criteria etc.

Use this area to describe the assignment and explain what learners are expected to do to complete this task. The assignment description can be as brief or as expansive as you feel is necessary to meet the needs of your learners. However, it is to your benefit to provide as much detail and information as possible, especially at the start of the course while you are still establishing procedures. Generally, the more information you are able to provide here the fewer questions and problems your learners will have completing the task.

The assignment description field can also be used to provide information or resources related to the assignment. An instructor, for example, could provide some literature, a video clip, an image, or a link to a webpage, and then ask the learners to use these materials in completing the task. (Alternatively, the instructor could post these items using the Resource Module and refer students to them in the assignment details. See the section titled Resource Module for more information.)

Finally, if you are adding rich content, tables, etc. to your description, it is best to expand the HTML editor into full screen mode so you can make your webpage document look nice when participants view it.

The grade for the assignment is specified here. Choosing a number will become the maximum grade for this assignment. Apart from the numbers, one of the descriptive grades which have been defined for this course can also be picked.

If you will not be giving a grade for the assignment, choose No Grade.

Available from

Setting this date prevents students from submitting their assignments before this date.

The Available from date setting allows an instructor to set a day and time at which learners can begin submitting the assignment. This setting does not, however, hide the activity from the learners. Instead, the learner will see the activity, be able to view the instructions and use any materials you have include in the description, but the learner will not be able to submit or complete the assignment until the Available from date.

To activate the Available from date, make sure that the “Disable” checkbox is not marked. Then, use the drop down menus to choose the day, month and year. You can also set a time with the last two fields on the line. Note: the time is based on a 24 hour clock or “military time,” so 14:00 refers to 2:00 p.m.

If you do not wish to use the Available from option, just check the “Disable” checkbox by clicking on it; the rest of the field will turn gray and the date will be ignored.

And this prevents students from submitting their assignments after this date.

The Due date field works in much the same way as the Available from field with a few small differences. Unchecking the “Disable” checkbox activates the Due date option and you have the same ability to select a day, month, year, and time. If the checkbox is checked, then the due date will be not be applied.

As with the Available from setting, the Due date defines when learners are able to submit their assignment. However, with the Due date settings, you also have the Prevent late submissions option (below the date and time fields). Setting Prevent late submissions to Yes will prevent learners from being able to submit this assignment after the Due date. If you set Prevent late submissions to No, then learners can submit the assignment as long as the assignment is visible or accessible to them.

Both the Available from and Due dates are displayed for learners in the assignment details, but the Due date is also marked in the course Calendar as a visible reminder for participants. Furthermore, the indicator on the calendar will actually link learners directly to the activity!

Your use of the Available from and Due date settings will probably be dependent on the overall structure of your course. If you are facilitating an open ended course or a course with rolling enrollment, then you might find it easier to not apply the Available from and Due date settings (leave the boxes checked). This arrangement will allow the learners to access the assignments according to their own schedule and progress within the course. Alternatively, if you are working within a more structured format or adhering to a timeline, the Available from and Due date settings are useful for keeping learners on schedule. Using the Available from setting will make it possible for learners to preview upcoming activities, while at the same time, prevent them from finishing the course in the first week and not returning for additional activities or information. Likewise, the Due dates help keep the learners from lagging too far behind and decrease the likelihood that the learner will become overwhelmed by having to complete several weeks worth of work at once.

Prevent late submissions

Set to "No", assignments submitted after the due date will be marked as late, but students will still be able to submit them. Set to "Yes", assignment submission will be blocked after the due date.

Settings for specific assignment types (1.7 onwards)

Each assignment type, except offline assignment, has further settings which are detailed on the relevant assignment type pages:

  • Advanced uploading of files

Assignment type (pre-1.7)

With the Assignment type setting (pre-1.7), you choose the type of assignment which defines how learners will complete the assignment and turn it in to the instructor. Assignments can be set up as offline activity, online text, or upload a single file.

To complete the settings specific to the assignment type, click Next to proceed to the assignment details page.

Common module settings

When course group mode is turned on, the group mode can be one of three levels: no groups, separate groups or visible groups.

Choose whether to Show or Hide the assignment

Setting an ID number provides a way of identifying the assignment for grade calculation purposes. If the activity is not included in any grade calculation then the ID number field can be left blank.

Tips and tricks

  • Want to use an Assignment activity again? Copy the assignment by backing up the course and selecting just the assignment, with or without students and their data. Restore the backup to the same course or to a new course. Move the copied assignment and or edit it.
  • Want to use an Assignment activity in another course you teach? Use the import function in the course administration block.
  • Peer Review Assignment Type (contributed module)
  • Using Moodle How do I make assignments worth more than 100 points? forum discussion

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Deleting a student submission

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  • A warning box will ask you to confirm the deletion. Select OK to confirm.

This action cannot be undone.

Should you wish to completely remove a paper from the Turnitin database, please contact your Turnitin administrator. Please provide your administrator with the class ID, paper ID, and the assignment name. Your administrator should then raise a ticket with the Turnitin Support Team to request the paper's removal. Do this below.

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Moodle: Activities & Resources: Delete a Resource or Activity Link

Deleting a link to an activity will remove the activity from your course. If the activity was a graded assignment, such as a Quiz or Upload File Assignment, its column of grades in the Gradebook will also be deleted. In the case of an Upload File Assignment, the students' uploaded documents will be deleted as well.

Delete a Link to a Resource or Activity

  • Log in to Moodle and select the desired Course.
  • Locate the activity or resource you wish to delete and select the 3 vertical dots to open editing selections. Then select delete .

SNAP delete resource/assignment

  • A confirmation message should appear, click  Delete Forum to delete  OR click cancel to cancel.

SNAP delete assignment confirm

  • By clicking Delete Forum , the item will be deleted from your Moodle course.

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Remove unused attempt from assignment

moodle delete assignment

  • Resolution: Duplicate
  • Fix Version/s: None
  • Affects Version/s: 3.9.3
  • Component/s: Assignment
  • Affected Branches: MOODLE_39_STABLE

Description

  • Create an assignment and set it to have multiple attempts
  • Submit an assignment as a student
  • Grade as teacher and open second attempt for student

After this, you can not remove the second attempt. If a teacher has opened a second attempt by accident, the teacher (nor admin) can not undo this.

See for more info here: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=410942

Please note: this is not about deleting a submission attempt from a student.

Problem with not being able to remove the second attempt leads to:

  • Filters not working correctly in 'view all submissions'
  • Wrong registration of grades in external systems (for example attempt one: grade 6.7, attempt two: registration of 'no grade' or 'no show'

Somehow it also feels like a design flaw if a teacher makes a pretty simple mistake (easy to make when you are grading many students) but the teacher (nor the admin) can undo this mistake.

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Issue links.

Improvement - An enhancement to an existing Moodle feature.

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  1. Moodle in English: How do I delete an assignment?

    How do I delete an assignment? by Dave Brown - Wednesday, 6 August 2008, 1:13 PM I've started creating assignments and find that most, if not all of my assignements need to be offline activities. Before figuring this out I created a couple of assignments of the wrong type. Now that those assignments are there how do I get rid of them?

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  5. Replace coursework submission

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  8. Deleting a student submission

    Deleting a student submission. Select the relevant course from your Moodle homepage. Select the relevant assignment. From the submission inbox, click the trash can icon alongside the paper submission you would like to delete. A warning box will ask you to confirm the deletion. Select OK to confirm.

  9. How to delete a draft assignment in a Moodle assignment dropbox

    Go to the assignment dropbox that contains the submission you wish to delete/replace. Click Edit submission. Click on the submitted document to launch another window. Click Delete. You will be asked if you are sure if you want to delete this file. Click OK to proceed.

  10. How do I delete an item from my gradebook?

    If the Assignment activity is not in use and will not be needed in the future, you can delete it entirely by deleting it from the main page of the course. First turn on the editing by clicking on the gearwheel in the upper right corner of the main page, selecting the 'Turn editing on' option.

  11. Simple Deletion of submitted assignments

    I am using many assignments, mainly with uploaded files. What I am looking for is a simple function for a teacher to fully delete submitted assignments, which is currently not possible with Moodle 1.8.2. The functionality should be the same like with tests. A teacher can select several assignments for deletion, and after that the uploaded user ...

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    If the activity was a graded assignment, such as a Quiz or Upload File Assignment, its column of grades in the Gradebook will also be deleted. In the case of an Upload File Assignment, the students' uploaded documents will be deleted as well. Delete a Link to a Resource or Activity. Log in to Moodle and select the desired Course.

  13. Moodle in English: [3.9.1]Delete assignment attempt

    Student submits assignment, attempt 1. Teacher grades and accidentally opens attempt 2. Teacher can prevent submissions, but attempt 2 stays open. This messes up the filters in grading form and 'view all submission' page. It should make sense that if a teacher accidentally makes a wrong click and sets up something in Moodle he/she should have ...

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  17. Remove unused attempt from assignment

    MDL-70162 Remove unused attempt from assignment Closed Export Details Type: Bug Resolution: Duplicate Priority: Minor Fix Version/s: None Affects Version/s: 3.9.3 Component/s: Assignment Labels: triaged Affected Branches: MOODLE_39_STABLE Description Create an assignment and set it to have multiple attempts Submit an assignment as a student