This page provides an overview of the different feedback types available for assignments

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Advanced methods are located in the 'Grade' section

Online/offline submissions

Online/Offline Marking

Where there is blind marking an approach is for one assessor to mark on Moodle and the other to mark downloaded submissions and use the offline grading worksheet to make notes or give feedback. - UCL

Feedback Type	Description	Pros	Cons	More Info
Feedback Comment	Leave comments for each submission, from within the grading interface. Can also add files such as audio recordings or images	Free-form Can be used with comments inline	Can appear generic Labour-intensive Not user-friendly Doesn’t give confidence to students that their work has been read
Comment Inline	This is related to feedback comments, as it is only available if feedback comments is available.
Annotate PDF	Allows for in-browser editing of submissions by annotating them with comments, drawings and stamps without the need for extra software. Students then download the annotated version of their work	Demonstrates that the student’s work has been thoroughly checked Appears clean and structured User-friendly tool when used online Lighter to work with	Only certain file types (.pdf, .docx, .odf) More applicable to essay styles Must be done online Requires certain file types as submissions Potential issues with speed and web service performance	Annotating an Assignment
Feedback Files	Uploading files such as annotated student work, comments and audio.	Provides opportunity to write comments outside of MyPlace Provides opportunity to upload files in bulk	Requires external work Can be time-intensive	Upload Feedback Files in Bulk
Offline Grading Worksheet	In the comment column information can be added and will be displayed as it would for the 'feedback comment' option	Best method to use for offline submissions Quick entry of grades	Not-personalised Not recommended for simultaneous feedback marking Suits short feedback Feedback is not formatted	Uploading marks to Myplace with the grading worksheet
Rubric	While marking guides allow you to specify criteria, but you can only give a numeric grade, rubrics by default point to the category. Normally in a qualitative rubric only feedback is given, with no numeric grade, however you can define points for each level, which will automatically calculate a grade, making the rubric quantitative too. You can also leave a comment for each of the criteria.	Quick to mark with	Feedback can seem standardised Difficult to weight	Marking Rubric
Marking Guide	The student's work is assessed on pre-defined criteria, with the marker entering a comment and a score per criterion. The final score gives the overall grade for the student. Guides are considered a quantitative grading method, as the marker can only provide a numeric assessment of the quality of submitted work. The text given in the process of marking with a marking guide is for feedback purposes only.	Easy for students to see how their mark relates to marking criteria Structured entry of feedback for each marking criteria section		Marking Guide

These all work with blind marking. For double blind marking, submissions can be downloaded and marked separately. Ensure properly

Assignment Statistics

Although this is listed in the feedback types section in assignment setting, this is not an actual way to mark - rather it just provides extra information to students. If enabled, the student will be shown a histogram of marks across the class, and statistics such as mean and standard deviation.

The statistics will be visible to the student when they can see the grade column for the assignment regardless of whether they have a grade so, if using this without blind marking enabled, you may wish to consider hiding the grade column until after the assignment has been marked

Note that, for data protection reasons, this will not be shown where there are fewer than 10 assignment submissions.

Online Submissions only

Assigment Feedback Types

Assignment Statistics

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