Creating a Padlet Assignment in Moodle (to be synced with the Gradebook)
You will want to create your Padlet first before adding the Padlet assignment to your Moodle course. Ensure your permissions are set to “School only.” This way, your students will have to be logged into Padlet with their Elon student accounts to access and make a post, avoiding any potential grade sync issues.
- With Edit mode on, click “Add an activity or resource.”
- From the activity chooser, select “Padlet.”
- Give your Padlet assignment a name and a description if desired.
- Click “Select content” and select the Padlet you’d like to use from the window that appears.
- Open the Grade settings and make any desired changes.
- Click “Save and display.”
- Your Padlet will now be embedded within the Moodle activity. Students can click on the activity to access and add to the Padlet. If necessary, they can open the Padlet up to full screen by clicking the small arrow icon on the upper right hand of the embedded window.
Adding Grades to your Padlet Assignment
- When you are ready to grade student submissions, you will need to go into the Padlet app and open the Padlet you are grading. On the right-hand side of the Padlet, click the three horizontal dots.
- From the “Additional options” menu that appears, click “Gradebook.”
- A list of students that have contributed to the Padlet will appear. Click on the arrow next to their name to display a list of their posts.
- You can click on a post within the list to expand and review it. Click on the field beneath the post’s subject to type in a numeric grade. Additionally, written feedback can be added in the “Overall grade and feedback” field.
- Once grades have been entered, make sure you have “Sync grades to LMS” turned on, then click the “Submit” button at the top of the box.
- Your grades will sync to the Moodle gradebook! Grades can be updated from the Padlet gradebook at any time. If you add/change grades in the Padlet tool, you will need to re-sync them to update the Moodle gradebook.