In chatting with a teacher who uses Moodle really well in class, I’ve learned a neat trick (which will be making it into an upcoming book). He uses the Assignment Module to quickly and easily grade presentations. He does this by utilizing Rubrics. The students don’t turn anything in. However, as they are giving the presentation, he has the Rubric open within Moodle. He simply clicks on the appropriate level for each criterion within the rubric. He also adds comments (a text box associated with each criterion) so that the students understand why he selected the level of each criterion. This way, he is done grading when the presentations are done. Brilliant. Absolutely Brilliant.
Hi Troy,
I recognize that this post is a bit old, but I am looking for more information around using the Assignment activity to grade an in-person presentation. I am running into an issue with the ability to actually grade the student if they have not “submitted” anything via the course.
Would love to hear how you did it. Thanks!
Hi. Thanks for reaching out. I’m not sure which version of Moodle that you are using, but I’ll guess that this is actually an easy “fix”. When you are creating the Assignment, make sure that you do NOT select anything under “Submission Type”. That is make sure that the checkbox is unchecked next to all the options (by default this will be “Online Text” and “File Submission”). As long as those are NOT checked, the students don’t have to submit anything.