{"id":8670,"date":"2023-08-29T15:26:56","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T19:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/?p=8670"},"modified":"2023-08-29T15:31:18","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T19:31:18","slug":"timed-assignments-in-moodle-4-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2023\/08\/29\/timed-assignments-in-moodle-4-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Timed Assignments in Moodle 4.2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of our favorite new features of Moodle 4.2 is the addition of a duration setting to the Assignments feature. In previous versions of Moodle, the only way to set a limited time for the completion of something you wanted your students to do was to set it up as a Quiz.  Now you have this important capability for assignments in Moodle!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to set it up<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>To set up a duration for an assignment, such as a take home assignment, or really anything for which it&#8217;s important, set up the assignment as usual. However, in the Availability section of the Assignment Setup, on the new Time limit line, check the Enable box, and then set a duration in seconds, minutes, hours, days, or weeks. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"266\" class=\"wp-image-8673\" style=\"width: 600px;\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Moodle4_Assignment_Availability.jpg\" alt=\"Moodle 4 Assignment Availability section with arrow pointing to Time limit line\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Moodle4_Assignment_Availability.jpg 1634w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Moodle4_Assignment_Availability-300x133.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Moodle4_Assignment_Availability-1024x454.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Moodle4_Assignment_Availability-768x340.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Moodle4_Assignment_Availability-1536x681.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Moodle4_Assignment_Availability-135x60.jpg 135w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Keeping students informed<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This will enable a count-down timer for students who begin the assignment in your Moodle course. This example is for an assignment that requires the student to enter text online in a browser.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"304\" class=\"wp-image-8675\" style=\"width: 600px;\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/MoodleTimedAssignment_Countdowntimer-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Student online assignment text entry page with countdown timer in upper right corner\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/MoodleTimedAssignment_Countdowntimer-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/MoodleTimedAssignment_Countdowntimer-1-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/MoodleTimedAssignment_Countdowntimer-1-1024x520.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/MoodleTimedAssignment_Countdowntimer-1-768x390.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/MoodleTimedAssignment_Countdowntimer-1-1536x779.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/MoodleTimedAssignment_Countdowntimer-1-2048x1039.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/MoodleTimedAssignment_Countdowntimer-1-118x60.jpg 118w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Feedback<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>When done, the system will report the assignment submission status, as well as the time under, or over the time limit that was provided.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"520\" class=\"wp-image-8676\" style=\"width: 600px;\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Moodle4_TimedAssignmentSubmissionResult.jpg\" alt=\"Submission result showing time taken under the limit\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Moodle4_TimedAssignmentSubmissionResult.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Moodle4_TimedAssignmentSubmissionResult-300x260.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Moodle4_TimedAssignmentSubmissionResult-1024x887.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Moodle4_TimedAssignmentSubmissionResult-768x666.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Moodle4_TimedAssignmentSubmissionResult-69x60.jpg 69w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of our favorite new features of Moodle 4.2 is the addition of a duration setting to the Assignments feature. In previous versions of Moodle, the only way to set a limited time for the completion of something you wanted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2023\/08\/29\/timed-assignments-in-moodle-4-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Timed Assignments in Moodle 4.2<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":8408,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,80],"tags":[90],"class_list":{"0":"post-8670","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-academic-technology","8":"category-moodle","9":"tag-featured","11":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/moodlecover.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph2nPL-2fQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8670"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8679,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8670\/revisions\/8679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}