Students hand in submissions
RWTHmoodle provides various activities in which students can submit assignments. Depending on the activity used, students can submit group submissions, provide peer feedback, share files or perform specific tasks such as programming in a programming environment.
- Assignment: Focuses on the submission and assessment of individual or group work.
- Student folder: Enables documents to be shared.
- Workshop: Focuses on peer review and mutual feedback.
- Virtual programming lab: Provides a specific environment for programming tasks.
Note
The CLS offers a monthly training course on the topic of submitting submissions, which focuses on the various Moodle tools for collecting, commenting on and evaluating student submissions. Further information on the training and registration can be found in the Events Database.
- What activities are there in Moodle where students can submit tasks?
- Comparison of submission activities
1.1. Assignment
- The Assignment activity allows students to submit solutions to tasks. These can be, for example, exercise sheets, seminar papers or other open tasks.
- The work to be submitted can consist of one or more files (e.g. PDF) that the participants upload. Alternatively, participants can enter their solution directly online in a text input area.
- The assignments can be submitted individually or as a group.
- PDF submissions can be corrected and assessed directly online. In the case of group submissions, the grade achieved applies to all group members.
- As with other graded activities, grading can be carried out using points, predefined (grading) scales, rubrics or grading guidelines. Rubrics are a criteria-based evaluation form that can also be used to quickly and transparently evaluate and comment on partial aspects of the work performed.
- Instructions for configuring and using the Assignment activity
1.2. Student folder
- The student Folder offers two different usage scenarios:
- Students can upload documents to the student folder independently. These are available to all other students either immediately or after they have been checked and approved by the managers.
- Submissions from the “Assignment” activity are synchronized in the student folder. The submissions are thus made available to all students after they have been released by the managers or by the students who created the submission.
- Instructions for configuring and using the Student folder
1.3. Workshop
- Peer feedback: Students can evaluate the submissions of their fellow students. The criteria for this are specified by the lecturers.
- Development of assessment skills: Students learn to assess fairly and objectively.
- Constructive feedback: Students receive feedback on their own submissions.
- Instructions for configuring and using the Workshop activity
- The Virtual programming lab (VPL) is an activity module for RWTHmoodle that manages programming tasks. Its most important features are
- Editing of program source code in the browser (in many programming languages also with debugger).
- Students can execute created programs interactively in the browser. The code is executed on a secure, RWTH-owned execution server.
- Lecturers can define test runs and students can run them to automatically check the created programs for correctness.
- Instructions for configuring and using the Virtual programming lab
Feature |  |  |  |  |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Provides a specific environment for programming tasks. |  | | |  |
| Students can enter the solution directly in RWTHmoodle in a text input field | | | | |
| Individual or group assignments are possible | | | | |
| Students can see other participants' submissions in the course room | | | | |
| Students give each other feedback | | | | |
| Grading can be based on various flexibly customizable criteria | | | | |
| Error overview with automatic evaluation of different error types | | | | |
| Suitable for programming tasks | | | | |
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