Target group
Lecturer
Goals
Practice & Test
Further documentation
Moodle Version
Article based on
Moodle Version 3.2
Author
Kathrin Osswald
kiz - Media Department
Team Web & Teaching Support
Context
Activities & materials > Task activity
One of the most used activities in Moodle courses is undoubtedly the activity task.
Since the assessments of such tasks make up a large part of the work with Moodle, Moodle itself is always working to improve usability.
Here we would like to give you a brief overview of the user interface.
Target group
Lecturer
Goals
Practice & Test
Further documentation
Moodle Version
Article based on
Moodle Version 3.2
Author
Kathrin Osswald
kiz - Media Department
Team Web & Teaching Support
Context
Activities & materials > Task activity
If you, as a lecturer, would like to see the handouts or make corrections, simply click on the corresponding task in the course.
You will then get an overview. You can now either jump directly to the assessments from this overview page (fig. 2) or you can first display all assessments and then click on Assessment for a specific student (fig. 3).
If you have clicked on Rate, the actual rating interface will open (Fig. 4).
Since work has to be carried out in the background here, such as loading the submissions or converting Office file types into a PDF, it is possible that not all areas are immediately filled with content and that spinners may appear, indicating that system work is still being carried out in the background.
The interface is divided into four main parts:
The header contains the user-related navigation and filtering.
The following navigation options exist:
Options for filtering the entire list:
If you click on the funnel icon below the search field, a selection of filter options appears in relation to various submission and evaluation states (Fig. 6): Submitted, not submitted, evaluation necessary
When you have finished correcting the submitted solution, you can simply enter a corresponding rating (for example a score) for the user in the Rating field.
If you would like to add a comment, simply click on the Comments link. This will open a small text field in which you can enter your comments (fig. 7).
In the end, don't forget to save the changes you have made!
In the footer there is a small group of buttons on the right side, as described above.
This allows you to adjust the layout of the interface. You can use the standard layout already shown (middle button), the PDF editor to full window width (right button, Fig. 8) or expand the evaluation column to full window width (left button, Fig. 9).
This can make sense if you have submissions that Moodle cannot convert to PDF, for example. In that case the page will remain white in the PDF editor, which is useless in that case. Here you can set the rating column to full width, for example. Or perhaps you are working on smaller devices and it is probably easier to work with full width columns.
If you need further help* on this topic, or have any questions or suggestions, please feel free to contact us at any time!
*Have you ever thought of looking for help or a solution in our help section on these pages or in the Moodle documentation (see above or ?
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