This article discusses how course instructors can save student assignment, quiz, and discussion submissions outside of Moodle for use in projects such as Promotion and Tenure documentation.
Open your course
- Log into Moodle at moodle.elon.edu.
- Open the course containing the student work you'd like to save.
- Navigate to the activity with students submissions that you'd like to save:
- Select the activity (assignment or quiz) from the course index.
- Alternatively, you can navigate to the Grades tab, and open the activity from the Grades area.
Downloading Assignment Submissions
- Select an assignment to open the assignment submission window.
- Select Submissions from the top navigation menu.
- In the Submissions window, select the Actions button, and select Download all submissions.
- This will save a folder containing student submissions to your device.
Downloading Quiz Data
- Select a quiz to open the quiz submission window. Select Results from the top navigation menu.
- Select the type of data you'd like to download using the drop-down menu on the upper left side of the results page. Options include:
- Grades
- Responses
- Statistics
- Download essay responses
- Scroll down to the quiz results area. Select Download data table as and select the format you prefer (i.e. .csv, Excel). Select the Download button.
- This will download the document to your device.
Downloading Forum Posts
- Please note that Moodle does not have a way to bulk download all student posts for all forums within a course. You will need to repeat the following steps for every student in each forum to save all forum post data within your course.
- In Moodle, open the forum that contains the posts you would like to download.
- In the top navigation menu, select Reports.
- The Reports menu will display, with data for each student on their contributions for that particular forum.
- Use the Forum selected drop down menu at the top of the window to select the forum you would like to run the report for.
- To export a student's posts from the forum, you can click the Export button to the right of their name.
- A new page will open, and you can select the discussion threads and date range that you would like to include in the export for that particular student. Additionally, you can also select the export format (e.g. csv, .xlsx) and additional options. Select Export.
- This will download a file onto your device. Repeat for any additional forums/students that you would like to save.