Using the MoodleCloud Document Converter

Our ready-installed Document Converter plugin, enables you to automatically convert an uploaded assignment submission to PDF format for teachers to grade and annotate.

Enable/Disable document converters:

1. Go to Site administration
2. Click Plugins 
3. Scroll down to Document converters
4. Click Manage document converters
5. Click on the eye icon to enable a document converter of your choice
    

Submission documents not converting:

• Please note that the document converter supports the following file types: doc, docx, rtf, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx, html, odt, ods, txt, png, jpg, gif, pdf.
• If you are on a free site, and you disable the MoodleCloud Converter option, it’s possible that document conversions from other converters, such as Google Drive will fail. To resolve this:
  • Enable the MoodleCloud LibreLambda document converter and make it a lower priority order than the converter you wish to use.

Grading an assignment

• To grade an assignment:
  1. Go to the Course 
  2. Add an assignment activity to your courses, 
  3. Add your assignment details
  4. Save and Display.
• This will allow your users to Add a submission and then Upload a file. 
• This also generates an email confirmation that the user has submitted an assignment.
• Once a user has submitted an assignment for Grading, a Grade button will appear in the Course (for those users eligible to Grade).
• Optionally, you can turn on the Plugin Setting to notify Grader’s about submissions via email (this is set by default to No).
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• Clicking on the blue Grade button will allow the Teacher or Administrator to add any of the following directly onto the PDF file:
  • a grade, 
  • feedback, 
  • comments, 
  • stamps, 
  • highlight text, and
  • draw freehand as well as lines and shapes
• Graded assignments will generate an email to the user who submitted the assignment, to let them know that it has been marked.