Moodle in English: e-mail to teacher when student uploads a file

e-mail to teacher when student uploads a file

by Lauran de Bever - Thursday, December 2, 2004, 10:41 PM

Hi!
I couldn't make it work, so I suppose it doesn't exist... What about sending an e-mail to the teacher when a student uploads a file in an assignment? I've seen this feature working when the student gets graded... this would be the same, but triggered by another event.

This way a teacher knows, what he needs to look at and give feedback

Is there a way to do this?

Re: e-mail to teacher when student uploads a file

by Marc Dastous - Thursday, December 2, 2004, 11:40 PM

Actually in one form this already exists. When a student submits an assignment the Recent Actvity block indicates what was submitted since the last time the teacher logged in.

Personally, I would like to see this go a step further by leaving it in the Recent Activity area until it is graded or viewed. Right now if you login to see if there assignments to be graded, but you can't get to them right now, they are not in the list the next time you login.

Marc

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Re: e-mail to teacher when student uploads a file

by Darren Smith - Friday, December 3, 2004, 3:46 AM

Excellent idea

I think having an upload stick in the recent activity block would please a lot of people.

Having a file re-submitted sticking in the new activity block would please more people.

Taking this information and putting it into a new block called something like my marking would please me a lot big grin

Darren

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Re: e-mail to teacher when student uploads a file

by Dennis Daniels - Friday, December 3, 2004, 11:01 AM

At a recent demo of another web based app, Webgrader: http://dennisgdaniels.com/tiki-index.php?page=Webgrader+Review I saw some nifty bits.
*email dunning letters to parents and students for missing assignments
*categorization of all assigments by 'standard'

I was a little surprised to see how excited people were about the homework dunning letter that was generated if a student didn't turn in their homework on time. The teacher/admin had the option of sending an email to the parents if their child did not turn in a paper... and after a bit of consideration I like that a lot!

The number one enemy of teachers is apathy... and when parents are fully informed on a regular basis the apathetic student is transformed.

Let's hear it for email dunning letters when students fail to turn in an assignment, as an option, in Moodle!

BTW, webgrader was a joke compared to Moodle. The real advantage for webgrader was the email and the assignment of a categorized standard to every object (quiz, journal, assignment etc.). Not being able to categorize all objects in Moodle would be a huge step forward in getting more Administrative buy-in for the software.

best
Dennis

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Re: e-mail to teacher when student uploads a file

by Michael Penney - Thursday, December 9, 2004, 12:26 AM

being able to categorize all objects in Moodle would be a huge step forward in getting more Administrative buy-in for the software.

Hi Dennis, install gradebook_cdc, (in CVS/contrib), you can categorize all graded objects, curve them, weight them, drop them, etc.

You can also see the total eligible points for the course using gradebook_cdc.

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Re: e-mail to teacher when student uploads a file

by Darren Smith - Wednesday, December 8, 2004, 8:15 AM

Out of interest, is anyone able to put a price on creating a my marking block?

Darren

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Re: e-mail to teacher when student uploads a file

by Michael Penney - Thursday, December 9, 2004, 12:27 AM

Would this be an email generated from the assingment?

Eg you go into an assignment after the due date, see all the submissions, and have a button to email all the folks who haven't turned it in yet?

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Re: e-mail to teacher when student uploads a file

by Darren Smith - Thursday, December 9, 2004, 5:16 AM

The email-students-with-work-not-handed-in idea would be semi-useful but the kids who tend not to submit work for me are the type that would just ignore the email. Still, I could see myself using it on a number of circumstances.

I'm looking at it more from the point of view of managing a teacher's workload. How about something like this to start the discussion:

When you click on the unmarked assignment you are taken to a filtered view of submissions. In other words if you were to click on Internet Essay in the example above you would only see the 3 unmarked submissions.

Likewise if you clicked on Interenet Essay in the resubmitted part you would only see the 1 assignment that had been resubmitted after the teacher has already marked it

The bottom 2 sections are just for discussion - obviously the teacher should be able to change 60% to whatever value they wish.

Thoughts anyone?

Darren

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Re: e-mail to teacher when student uploads a file

by W Page - Thursday, December 9, 2004, 8:22 AM

Hi Darren!

I still have not had the opportunity to read through all the postings about this issue but you idea is very nice. I think this is a feature many folks would like to see in Moodle.

Take a look at these previous threads,
Ungraded or updated work...
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=6074

Instant Moodle Marking (tm) [Do not pay attention to the (tm)]
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=5248
Bruno Vernier did the coding for "Instant Moodle Marking".

Was that a "slide out" window in your image above? If so, I think it might be better if it was at the top of the Moodle window and came down when clicked. Of course it should

only be visible if a teacher logged on
only be visible if a teacher or teaching assistant are given rights to use it.
only allow the user to perform certain tasks determined by the administrator and/or the teacher.

This would be nice to have if possible.

WP1

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Re: e-mail to teacher when student uploads a file

by Darren Smith - Thursday, December 9, 2004, 10:03 PM

Grrrr. Just been trying to get some moodle marking done and it is driving me crazy. The ease of setting up and collecting assignments means I have generated a lot more marking for myself this year. I just need to be able to manage it dead

Could someone come up with a price please for this - here or email if you prefer.

Darren

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Re: e-mail to teacher when student uploads a file

by Lauran de Bever - Monday, December 6, 2004, 7:10 PM

I think, this is a good idea, this way the teacher knows, what he still needs to do, so he won't forget it.

The question is now, how can it be made and by wich person

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Re: e-mail to teacher when student uploads a file

by Darren Smith - Monday, December 6, 2004, 11:38 PM

how can it be made and by wich person

This is a question I feel will be asked increasingly as users explore the possibilities of moodle.

There was talk a while ago somewhere about having project kitties where people can chip in. Also there was talk of a membership scheme.

Did anything come of these ideas?

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Re: e-mail to teacher when student uploads a file

by Mallol Nolla Roig - Friday, February 4, 2005, 8:11 AM

how can i manage to let students upload files? can you help me? is there any specific module that can do this for me?

thanks a lot

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e-mail to teacher when student uploads a file