Best way for a student to upload work for viewing later

Best way for a student to upload work for viewing later

by Steve Willis -
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Hi,

I am trying to figure out a way for students to upload work, and then return to this work for self-evaluation after they have completed more learning activities:

Upload Essay > do learning activities > go back to your essay and review it

I used 'Assignment' so the uploading of the essay unlocks the next activities activities.

The problem I have is that the message Moodle returns after the upload is "submitted for grading" -- But I won't be grading it and this is confusing to the students.

Can anyone suggest a better way to do this? 

Thank you!

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Re: Best way for a student to upload work for viewing later

by Ralf Hilgenstock -
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Hi

you can use Submission settings - Require stiudents to click the submission button in Assignment settings. This should help for your scenario

Ralf

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Re: Best way for a student to upload work for viewing later

by Steve Willis -
Thanks, Ralf, I already had that set. What I am trying to get around is this message that says "submission status: Submitted for grading ... Grading status: not graded" I am not going to grade this work, it's a pre-course activity that the students will review again after they did a series of lessons. Do you know a way to remove these 'grading' messages?
thanks,
Steve
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Re: Best way for a student to upload work for viewing later

by Shirley Gregorczyk -
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On the assignment Activity setting page - how did you populate the Grade and Completion conditions?
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Re: Best way for a student to upload work for viewing later

by Steve Willis -

Hi Shirley,

For Grade: all settings are None or No.

For Completion conditions, it set to "Students mark as done"  I tried different combinations of these settings and i still have "Submission Status: Submitted for Grading"  "Grading Status: Not Graded" 

I would like to remove these items, so the student just sees "Submission Status: Submitted"  with no mention of grading.

Thanks! 

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Re: Best way for a student to upload work for viewing later

by Shirley Gregorczyk -
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I created an assignment activity with Grade Type = None and Activity Complete = None.
Interesting to me, that the student's view from the course page is not completely intuitive. Maybe a label should be there even if the Activity is not required. (??)
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Before submission - the Grading status = Graded (this should probably state a different value - "This is a Non-Graded Activity". 
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After submission - Submission status = Submitted for grading, (this should probably state a different value - "A Submission has been made". 
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IMHO - My workaround would be to over communicate to the students what actions they need to take and what the course will display.
If I used assignment as you, are I would probably create a tracker referencing your forum post- as it is not clear for the students when none is selected for the Grade Type. 
I would probably look for another activity type that better fits your use case. Perhaps Diary or Journals activities would be a better fit (??)
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Re: Best way for a student to upload work for viewing later

by Steve Willis -

I didn't know about diaries and journals--this sounds perfect--I will look into this! Thank you

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Re: Best way for a student to upload work for viewing later

by AL Rachels -
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I thought I had replied to this from my phone, but it must have gotten "lost in the mail". I maintain the Diary plugin and can tell you that it is a souped up version of the Journal plugin. Journal gives only one page and if you require the user to maintain old versions of their writing while rewriting and adding new stuff, it will have to be entered lower down on the same page, so the page can quickly turn into a scroll of death.

Just to help you out, Diary can be set up different ways. 
  • It can mimic the Journal limiting the user to only one page.
  • It can be set to add a new entry each day and have the new days entry act like the journal.
  • It can be set to allow for a new entry every time the user clicks the button to start a new entry.
    • For the previous setup, you can prevent editing once an entry is saved.
    • For the previous setup, you can set up to allow editing ANY entry.
    • For the previous setup, you can allow an entry to be created for ANY date and time.
  • For any of the above setups, you can provide a written prompt.
  • For any of the above setups, you can provide multiple, time released writing prompts.

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