Grade Assignments in Moodle

The View/grade all submissions page for a Moodle assignment activity allows you to do several important grading functions. Grades entered on this page will appear in the corresponding grade column of the gradebook. We recommend grading Assignments from this page, rather than manually entering grades in the Grader report, especially if you want to provide feedback as online text comments or in files.

View Submissions

To begin grading, you can access student submissions from the View/Grade all submissions page.

  1. On your course page, click the name of an Assignment activity. The Assignment page opens and displays the description of the assignment and a summary of submissions.
  2. Below the summary, click View/grade all submissions. The View/grade all submissions page will open.
  3. The View/grade all submissions page displays a table showing student names, when submissions were last modified, and links to the submissions.

Download Student Submissions

Moodle offers several different ways for downloading student work, including downloading all submissions, selected submissions, or individually.

Enter Grades and Feedback for One Student at a Time

You can view each student's submission and enter grades and feedback on individualized pages. This method ensures feedback is saved after you review each student's submission.Note: Use this method if you are grading Online text submissions, grading with Rubrics or Marking Forms, or if there is more than one instructor or TA grading the assignment.

  1. On your course page, click the name of an Assignment activity. The Assignment page will open and display the description of the assignment and a summary of submissions.
  2. Below the summary, click View/grade all submissions. The View/Grade all submissions page for the assignment will open.
  3. Below the Submissions table, under the Options heading, are settings that let you control which students to show in the table:
  4. To grade a student's submission, in the Grade column for the student, click Grade. The Grading page will open.
  5. On the Grading page for each student, you will be able to view online text (if enabled), download submitted files, enter and reply to Submission comments, enter Feedback comments, upload Feedback files, and grade the submission.
  6. Complete your entries as needed, then: