Group submissions in the assignment activity

In your subject, you may want to allow students to submit work as a group. This can be done in a range of activity types, however, this article will focus on the use of the Moodle Assignment activity.

How?

Set up the student groups/groupings

Before allowing group submissions, you must first establish which groups are to submit. For example, you may want to have students submit via: 

• Groups that students created themselves using the Group self-selection tool (refer to Creating Groups using group self-selection)
• Tutorial groups synced from SMP (refer to Moodle Groups)
• Groups that you have manually created (refer to Moodle Groups)

To ensure that the appropriate groups are used for submission, you may consider creating a grouping and naming it with the title of the task or assessment. For example, Assessment 2 has the students submitting in their self-created groups. After those groups have been created, create a new grouping called Assessment 2 containing all the groups created for the task. 

Set up the Assignment activity 

Once the groups/groupings are set up and labelled appropriately, create a Moodle Assignment activity with group submission: 

1. Ensure Edit mode is on. 
   
2. In the relevant section, click Add an activity or resource.
3. Select the Assignment activity.
   
4. Enter a name in the Assignment name text box.
5. Enter information about the assignment in the Description text box (optional).
6. Fill in the date and time details and other relevant fields.
7. Expand the Group submission settings section.
8. Select Yes from the Students submit in groups drop-down.
9. Select the grouping you have created under the Grouping for student groups drop-down.
   
10. Click the Save and exit button.