Adding Problem Sheets / Assignments to a Moodle Course

Creating a New Assignment

Make sure you are logged into Moodle, and browse to the course.

Make sure "Edit mode" is enabled in the top-right corner.

Creating an Assignment from Scratch

Click the "Add an activity or resource" link at the bottom of Course Materials (or other section as appropriate).

Select "Assignment".

Enter the assignment settings - see below for details.

Duplicating an Existing Assignment

If you have already created at least one assignment, you may prefer to duplicate the existing assignment rather than entering all of the information from scratch.

Click the "three dots" icon next to the existing assignment.

Click "Duplicate".

Click the "three dots" icon next to the copy of the assignment (with the suffix "(copy)").

Click "Edit settings".

Delete any copied files from the Additional files and Upload problem sheets fields. This will not affect the original assignment.

Update the assignment settings as appropriate - see below for details.

Assignment Settings

General

Set the Assignment name as appropriate. We generally recommend "Sheet 1", "Sheet 2", etc. for problem sheets. If you mention that name anywhere in the course, it will automatically be converted to a link to this assignment.

In the Description field, enter information for students about what it contains and which lectures/videos/sections of lecture notes correspond to this sheet. For example:

This block of work corresponds to Week 3. It is an introduction to concepts such as mathematical induction, partitions and sets. The relevant section of the lecture notes is Chapters 2 and 3.

Under Additional files, click the "Add" icon and upload the problem sheet PDF (or drag-and-drop it where indicated). We recommend including the course name in the filename to help students to identify downloaded files later - for example, AnalysisI_Sheet1.pdf is more helpful than Sheet1.pdf. If you have further files to add for students, such as published solutions for certain problems, they can go here too.

Note: Please keep any LaTeX or other source files safe in case you need to make any changes or a student requests them for accessibility reasons.

Availability

Enable and set these dates as required:

Allow submissions from - Before this date/time, students will be able to download the problem sheets (as long as "Always show description and files" is ticked), but won't be able to upload their work. This can be disabled if not applicable (e.g. Prelims/Part A courses where students do not submit their work in Moodle) or you don't want to restrict when work can be submitted.
Due date - This is displayed to students, and any work submitted after this date/time will be marked as late.
Cut-off date - After this date/time, students will not be able to submit work (unless manually given an extension). Usually disabled.
Remind me to grade by - This will be displayed in the Moodle calendar for tutors/TAs. Disable it if they are not marked.

These dates/times apply to all classes by default, but it is possible for class tutors / TAs / you to override them for each class.

Submission types

For Prelims/Part A courses, untick all submission types, as students do not submit their work in Moodle.

For Part B/C courses, only File submissions should be ticked. They should typically be limited to 1 file (unless more are required), a maximum size of 512 MB, and restricted to .pdf extensions (unless other file types are required).

Feedback types & solutions

All feedback types should be selected (which should be the default for new assignments). For your information, they are:

Feedback comments - allows tutors/TAs to enter a comment (see Marking Students' Work for details), which is shared with their college tutor
Annotate PDF - allows tutors/TAs to mark work directly in the browser
Offline grading worksheet - allows tutors/TAs to upload grades and comments in bulk
Feedback files - allows tutors/TAs to upload a PDF they have annotated locally
Solution sheet - allows you to upload a solution sheet for the tutors/TAs

(For Prelims/Part A courses, only "Solution sheet" needs to be ticked, but it is safe to leave all feedback types ticked.)

Upload the solution sheet to the Upload solution sheets field. These will be made available to college tutors, course tutors and TAs.

Make sure Show solutions to students is set to "No" (unless you do want to make the solutions available to students).

Note: It's important that the solution sheet field is used to upload solutions that should be visible to college tutors, not a separate module. Making a module "Not visible to students" will actually make it invisible to everyone who is not a Lecturer/Class Tutor/TA on the course - meaning College Tutors would not be able to access it either.

Grade

The Grade Type should be set to "Scale" and Scale set to "Oxford (α, β, γ)". This should be the default for new assignments.

(For Prelims/Part A courses, this can be set to "None", but it is safe to it set to the default values.)

Common module settings

In Availability, you can choose whether to show the assignment immediately or keep it hidden from students until you are ready.

Save Changes

When you are finished, scroll to the end and click "Save and display" to see the result.

To make further changes, click "Settings".

To return to the main course page, click the course title in the breadcrumbs, or expand the left menu and click "General".