Marking workflow allows you to grade an assignment and show all students their assignment grades and 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 at the same time. 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 marking workflow in the assignment, turning marking workflow on for students by setting it to In marking, and then turning it off by setting it to released. When marking workflow is set to In marking students will not be able to see their grades or feedback for that assignment. Once marking workflow is set to released, students will be able to see their grades and feedback for that assignment. Note that setting marking workflow to In marking will hide grades and feedback even if marking workflow was already set to released.
Steps
To use grading workflow, you must enable it. Go into edit settings for the assignment, expand Grade, and set Use marking workflow to Yes.
After enabling grading workflow, it will be available as an option on the page with the grading table.
Navigate to the assignment 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 grading workflow. You may click the select-all box at the top of the select column to select all students. Then choose Set marking workflow state and click the Go button.
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.
Once you've finished grading and providing feedback to all selected students for the assignment, return to the grading table, select the same 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.