Submitting Class Tutor's Comments
Changes for 2024-25
Comments are now recorded directly in Moodle, rather than in TMS. The process is very similar to marking assignments, except there are no file submissions and no grades - only your comments.
Option 1: Submitting in Bulk
In this workflow, you download all submissions at once, mark them offline, upload the marked papers in bulk, enter the grades and overall comments in bulk, and finally release the marks to students.
Enter Comments in Bulk
Go to the Courses site and make sure you are logged in - click "Log in with SSO" in the top-right corner if not.
Navigate to the relevant course - either using the "Courses" list on the homepage, the "Search courses" search box, or the "My courses" page in the top menu. If you use the search box, make sure you select the course for the current academic year.
Click "Class Tutor's Comments".
Click the "View all submissions" button.
If you are the Tutor/TA for multiple classes, select the appropriate class from the "Separate groups" dropdown.
Scroll to the bottom of the page, make sure "Options" is expanded, and tick "Quick grading". (You only need to do this once, as it is remembered.)
Tip: You may also want to change "Assignments per page" to a higher number. Also check the "Filter" and "Workflow filter" fields to ensure you are seeing the correct students and not missing any.
For each student, fill in the "Feedback comments" text field. (Note: These may be shared with college tutors and others, in addition to the student.) You may need to scroll to the right to see "Feedback comments" - you may need to hover the mouse over the table to see the scrollbar on a desktop, or swipe the table left on a tablet/touch screen. Hiding the left and right sidebars (if open) may also help.
If you want to immediately release the feedback to the students, set Status to "Released". Also make sure Notify student is set to "Yes".
Click the "Save all quick grading changes" button to save the changes.
Release Feedback to Students in Bulk
If you haven't already released the feedback:
Tick all the submissions you wish to release.
Next to "With selected...", select "Set marking workflow state" and click "Go", followed by "OK".
Set "Marking workflow state" to "Released" and "Notify student" to "Yes".
Click "Save changes".
Option 2: Submitting Individually
Go to the Submission
Go to the Courses site and make sure you are logged in - click "Log in with SSO" in the top-right corner if not.
Navigate to the relevant course - either using the "Courses" list on the homepage, the "Search courses" search box, or the "My courses" page in the top menu. If you use the search box, make sure you select the course for the current academic year.
Click "Class Tutor's Comments".
Click the "View all submissions" button.
If you are the Tutor/TA for multiple classes, select the appropriate class from the "Separate groups" dropdown.
Find the submission you want to mark - or just start at the top of the list - and click the "Grade" button.
Enter Comments
Enter your overall comments in Feedback comments. (Note: These may be shared with college tutors and others, in addition to the student.)
If you want to immediately release the feedback to the student, set Marking workflow state to "Released". Also make sure Notify student is ticked.
Click "Save changes" (or "Save and show next" to move to the next student).
After you finish marking, you can click "View all submissions" to go back to the list.
Release Feedback to Students
If you didn't already release the feedback to the students individually, you may want to do that in bulk - see "Release Feedback to Students in Bulk" above.
To manually release feedback for an individual student, click "Grade" to return to the grading screen, then set Marking workflow state to "Released", make sure Notify student is ticked, and click "Save changes". You will remain on the same page, so click "View all submissions" to go back to the previous page.
Advanced Options
As an alternative to "Quick grading", it is possible to download the list of students as a CSV, enter your comments offline, then upload the CSV back to Moodle. This is not documented above because it is more complicated than Quick grading, but you can find it in the "Grading action" dropdown under "Download grading worksheet" and "Upload grading worksheet". You will need to update the "Feedback comments" field, and generally should not touch the other fields.
Need Help?
If you need any technical assistance with Moodle, please contact IT support.
If you have any questions about the material or marking criteria, please contact the course lecturer.
You can also contact the academic admin team (@email).