Hi all
I hv pdf reports generated from a software for an offline activity. The generated reports to be accessed by individual students. Is there any way to upload these files and their scores to moodle? I could not use assignment as students don't submit any files through moodle.
Please someone direct me.
Thanks.
At the bottom of all the activities, don't you have a "resource" or "file" activity. This is just a file that you put on your front page. Like a syllabus.
I know that ! But my problem is not all files can be accessed by everyone. Individual files for individual students
The fastest workaround I use is an Assignment. Enable "Feedback" files (and online comment as well if yopu want that too), adjust the grading option, disable all submissions from students, provide a good instruction and you're good to go in five minutes.
Wow thanks
I knew there should be a workaround
could u plz tell me how will I bulk upload? What naming should I use...could u plz bit elaborate
thank u so so much
As far as I'm aware, all you can do is download student submissions, and then upload them back in bulk to the assignment feedback files area. I don't know that you can bulk upload feedback files when there are no initial student submissions to download.
If someone knows a way to do this, this was be such a neat feature : )
You are right.
I just made one sample submission n after learning the name structure, I did for rest of the students and made uploads. But unfortunately all uploads goes to only one student who submitted not to all!!
This is very simple requirement struggling for long time..
someone plz help me...
If you can use addon plugins and you have sufficiently recent moodle version (2.6 or higher, preferably 2.8), you can get what you are looking for with the Dataform module. Here is a quick description of the activity set up for this purpose:
Now you can enter the activity, go to the Manage List view and add entries on behalf of your students. The entry form will allow you to select a student (from the list of enrolled students in the course) and drag&drop a file. Once saved this entry will available only to the selected student (and instructors).
If you want to bulk add entries, you can replace in the view template of the Manage List view, the pattern ##addnewentry## with ##addnewentries##. The latter will display a dropdown of numbers and selecting a number will open in the new entry form the selected number of entries and you can fill in the student names and files and save all.
Or if you're feeling comfortable you can add a csv view and import entries for all students. Currently, you cannot also import files via the csv view (forthcoming), but after you added the entries you can go to the Manage List view and bulk edit entries and drag&drop the feedback files.
hth
Must play with that Dataform plugin one day myself, Itamar, thanks for the instructions.
Yes, indeed, with Assignment, if there are NO original submissions from students, even if only the briefest online text ones, it will be impossible to use bulk upload of the feedback files, as you need the prefix composed of the student's exact name in the system plus the number of their submission (which are added automatically when bulk-downloading submissions) You can only grade and add feedback files one by one..
thank you so much Itamar
certainly it helped.
I did exactly u explained and works like a charm.
hats off to you for such timely help. You saved me from my students who were waiting for crucial reports.
My only problem is i have 100+ students so doing manually or using csv views still takes lots of time. so I am struck here.
but still your solution is a good start to releive me....
thanks again have a nice day
I am trying to set up Dataform using the above instructions. It looks perfect for my needs. The idea is to place our school's individual .pdf report cards on Moodle so that each student can log in and view their own, without seeing other student's cards. The above instructions did not work for me, so I tried the simplified version found here: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=264314 Basically, the simple set up I did seems OK, but when I add a new entry I do not get an input box. I see the column header that says "textarea", but there is no input box. I have attached an image for reference. I assume this contributes to my problem getting the more elaborate instructions above to work.
Something is preventing the text input box from appearing, but so far I haven't figured out what. Do you have any suggestions that might help?
Thanks!
