Here's a typical pattern of grading an important writing assignment for a class of 30 students.
- After the due date, the teacher uses the Zip & download feature to create a folder with all the submitted files neatly labelled with student's names.
- Now she opens one and spends an hour on the first one writing comments and assigning a grade.
- Having finished this one, she grades two other papers and decides to upload these as response files into the moodle assignment. So far so good.
- In the Assignment submissions she clicks Grade and takes care to upload the response file before assigning the grade.
- She repeats this for the other papers she has just graded. So far, so good.
- Now she has to do something else so she closes the course and logs out of Moodle.
- A day or so later she comes back to work on grading these assignments. She looks the submissions page. Has she uploaded the response files yet? She cannot tell. So she has to click 'Update' for each student to check.
So, I'm thinking that just displaying the uploaded response file in the 'Last modified (Teacher)' column (if there is one) would allow the teacher to easily see and open the response file.
This shouldn't be a hard hack, should it? Perhaps one for the Tracker?
Mark