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Marking workflow allows you to grade an assignment and show all students their assignment grades and feedback Moodle marking workflow, a feature of the assignment activity, enables you to add grades and feedback to student submissions and release (show) the grades and feedback to students at the same time. If using the 'upload multiple feedback files in a zip' feature, it will also prevent students from receiving notifications when the feedback files are uploaded. Use marking workflow if you are marking assignments over several days and would like all students to see their grades/feedback at the same time.

These instructions will be simplified and will only explain how to grade an assignment and release the grades and feedback to multiple students Marking workflow does a lot more than allow the release of grades/feedback at the same time. For , but these instructions will only cover these aspects of marking workflow. For more information on the additional capabilities of marking workflow, refer to the official Moodle documentation.

The main steps to using marking workflow are enabling :

1. Enable marking workflow in the assignment

1. activity (if it's not already)
2. Set the marking workflow state to In marking, which will prevent students from seeing any grades or feedback added to submissions.
3. Grade submissions and provide feedback as usual
4. Set marking workflow state to released, which will make the grades and feedback available to students
   

Note that setting marking workflow to In marking will hide grades and feedback even if marking workflow was already set to released.

Steps

1. Enable marking workflow in the assignment activity

To use marking workflow, you must first enable it. Go into edit settings for the assignment, expand Grade, and set Use marking workflow to Yes and click one the save buttons at the bottom.

After enabling marking workflow, it will be available as an option on the page with the grading table.

2. Set the marking workflow state to In marking

Navigate to the assignment activity and click the View all submissions button to view the grading table for the assignment.

Select the users you would like to include in the marking workflow.

Optional: If you'd like to select all students, go to the Options section below the grading table and Here's how to select all students and set the marking workflow for all students, but you can also select only individual students.

Below the grade table, set Assignments per page to All to show all students in the grading grade table.

You may As shown below, click the select-all box at the top left of the select column grade table to select all students currently displayed in the table.

Once you've selected students, below the grade table, set With selected to Set marking workflow state and click the Go button.

Next, set the Marking workflow state to In marking and click the Save changes button.

You'll see the status of the selected students change to In marking. When marking workflow is set to In marking students will not be able to see their assignment grade or feedback.

3. Grade submissions and provide feedback as usual

Grade student submissions, providing grades and feedback.

4. Set marking workflow state to released

Once you've finished grading and providing feedback to all selected students for the assignmentre ready to release (show) the grades and feedback to students, return to the grading assignment grade table shown below, select the same students (or all students), select Set marking workflow state again, and click the Go button.

Set the Marking workflow state to Released and click the Save changes button.

Once marking workflow is set to Released, the students will be able to see their grades and feedback for the assignment.