@emma Actually, my problem is even more bizarre. Even with all of the gradebook switched off and the "Show gradebook to students = No" in the course appearance settings, all that happen is that the students (er, interviewees) are not emailed WRT to feedback submissions from the interviewers (nor do they see any notifications for submitted feedback in their online notification tray), so we need to reach out to them independently to say "Hey , you have feedback". They STILL see both grades AND feedback in the assignment task. It would see that whatever I'm doing, I'm doing it wrong (although I believe I am correctly following the documentation).

Still, I get what you are saying about the Feedback and Grades being in link, that that should I ever manage to fix this issue, then I still won't get what I'm after.

I will look at the forum although I have a suspicion to that his will not give what I'm after. We need eventually to have a workflow to marking where multiple teachers (Interviewers) will mark the candidates then we can colate marks or our own references. It is very useful for historical mean to ensure that all of these are gather in one place. At the moment, we copy out the content and email it around, and I have already lost count of who said what about whom.

@shirley - I need to re-read your comments again for them to sink in. The problem we had with quizes is that teachers (interviewers) were not notified of submissions from the students (interviewees) when we used the open text quiz response. This lead to delays in responding to interviewees.

Hi Emma,

I did look at the forum activity, unfortunately the way users are enrolled into the course is currently via an application called Arlo, which we use to funnel eLearning sign ups into Moodle and assign them to the correct course. This only assigns users into a single group. I suppose we don't need to use Arlo for this particular exercise, although it works very well for us with zero admin.

To give you a better understanding for what we are doing, the technique we use to interview is to role play. We setup several customer scenarios which need to be troubleshooted, and the interviewee must respond to help the customer resolve those issues. This is where we use the assignment activity. We give the user 2 attempts to resolves the customers issue. They will submit their first answer, then the "customer" will responded to elicit further information if required. Each scenario has its own assignment activity.

In general, the assignment is OK. I would like to see this threaded (I suppose similar to your suggestion of a forum) so there is a clear understanding of progression by all markers (this is quite hidden when looking at multiple assignment submissions). Responses need a hard cut off (maximum two responses per scenario), and the ability to mark/grade the overall response (over both submissions, if used). I have started looking at the advance grading methods for the assignment (as per @sheilas response)  as this will certainly help others mark the assignments to a consistent level, although I suppose something offline could be used if we use some other activity. 

The main goals are to: