In Advanced uploading of files mode, we are experimenting with having teachers upload their own documents in response to students' assignment.
1. students upload assignments formatted in Word to Moodle
2. teachers save the students' document to their hard drives, then track changes or insert comments
3. teachers open the assignment and click "grade"
We have found that teachers must upload their own response document to Moodle before adding any feedback in the text box provided. If teachers add feedback in the text box and then upload their document, all their feedback is lost.
Has anyone else experienced this?
Yes. We solved the problem by listing steps to take when responding to student work. And, also note that, if there is nothing in the feedback box, students cannot see the teacher's uploaded file.
Moodle 1.9.4
Ben, would you be willing to share your list of steps to take when responding to student work? That would be really helpful.
Mary Maronde
Hi Mary,
Unexpurgated, here you go! & Wow! New interface. Not sure how to use it!
How to Post Critiques & Reports
How Student and Parent Access Instructor Feedback
Students and parents:
- Write your critique or report.
- Click on the Assignment in the Topic Outline (e.g., Assignment 1). Main page, center column.
- Click on No attempts have been made on this assignment or View X submitted assignments, in upper right.
- Upload the file or cut and paste into box. [FYI, right now you and the student can both upload 3 files max per assignment/report. You can delete a file by clicking on the X after its name.]
- If you upload a file, you MUST also insert a comment in the feedback box or the student won't be able to see your file.
- We don't do "grades," but please change the grade in the upper right corner above the feedback box.
No grade = work not yet turned in.
0 = unacceptable or late work (not turned in yet). Follow Handbook instructions for late work.
1=student work in & critique has been posted. - Save changes.
- For Progress and Midterm Reports, when you have uploaded/posted a report, go out to the main classroom page and click on the closed eye to open it up. Once the eye is open, the students can access your feedback by following the directions below. [If you don't see the closed eye, click on the "Turn Editing On" button on the Home page and the eye and other options will be revealed.]
- Send email to students and parents that your critique or report has been posted in the classroom. Be sure to instruct them how to access it and how to post a parental acknowledgment that it was read.
How Student and Parent Access Instructor Feedback
Students and parents:
- Log into the course and click on Assignment or Report
- Students: Please read the critique or report (If the instructor provides an attachment, click on the attachment icon on the bottom left of the page).
- Parents: Please scroll down to the end of the page--not to the end of an attachment-- to the Notes section, click on Edit, enter your name and comments, and click on Save Changes. This Note lets the instructor know that you have read the feedback.
One other note, though we haven't tried it yet here in 1.9.4. If your teachers try zipping all their response files and then upload that zip file, they may be able to shave off a click or two by unzipping in files directory and then plugging in the link to a particular file.
You would need to experiment with this to see how it works.
In 1.8, there was a neat plug-in that zipped all the files to get them down and then (I *think* I remember) zipped them all to get them back up. After which, teacher's job was to unzip and then copy the link for each to paste into Advanced Uploading. . .
Ms. Mary Cooch may know more about this, if she's *following* this convo . . .