Back to Student ResourcesYour instructor may require you to upload digital content and/or submit online responses for grading. For example, essays, spreadsheets, presentations, webpages, photos, video clips or a typed paragraph response may be required.
There are three types of assignment submissions:
1. File submissions (students submit a file(s) for assessment)
2. Online text (students can type their responses directly in Moodle)
3. Submission comments (students can type comments to their instructor before submitting an assignment)
When you enter an assignment, you will see the instructor’s directions to complete the assignment.
File submission
There are two ways you can submit a file. To submit a file, complete the following steps:
Drag and Drop Method:
1. Find the file on your computer.
2. Click and drag the file into the box with the blue arrow and wait for the file to upload. When the file is successfully uploaded, you will see an icon for it in the File submission box.
3. Click ‘Save changes’.
Add Submission Method:
1. Click the ‘Add’ button to bring up the file upload page.
2. Click on Add and when the File Picker box opens, choose ‘Upload a File’ and ‘Choose File’ to select your file(s) from the computer.
3. Once the file name shows beside the ‘Choose File’ button, click ‘Upload this file’.
4. Click ‘Save Changes’.
There should now be a Last modified date and the file(s) uploaded will also be displayed.
If changes are required, click on ‘Edit my submission’.
Once ready to submit, click ‘Submit assignment’. Note that once the assignment is 'submitted’ no further changes are allowed.
Online text
To submit an online text submission, students complete the following steps:
1. Click the ‘Add submission’ button to bring up the online text editor page:
2. Type the relevant text into the box, or paste from a previously written file.
3. Click ‘Save Changes’.
There should now be a Last modified date and the first 100 characters entered will also be displayed.
Depending on how the assignment is setup the status will either read
‘Submitted for grading’ - in which case no further action is need, or ‘Draft (not submitted)’
If changes are required, click on ‘Edit my submission’.
Once ready to submit, click ‘Submit assignment’. Note that once the assignment is 'submitted’ no further changes are allowed.
Submission comments
Depending on how the assignment has been setup, you may be able to leave submission comments to provide any additional information about your submission to your instructor.
You will then submit the assignment for grading:
Please Note: Your instructor may require you to accept a statement saying
that the work you submitted is your own, and that you have acknowledged the works of other people if you used them. In this case, you will see a submission statement after you have clicked the ‘Submit assignment’ button. If you agree with the statement that the work you are submitting is your own and you’ve acknowledged the work of others, click the checkbox and ‘continue’ button.
