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   1 <img alt="" src="<?php echo $CFG->wwwroot?>/mod/exercise/icon.gif" />&nbsp;<b>Exercise</b>
   2
   3 <p>An Exercise is a simple but powerful assignment. In an exercise the teacher
   4     asks the students to do a piece of practical work. It could be writing an
   5     essay or a report, preparing a presentation, or setting out a spreadsheet,
   6     etc. When the student has done the task they must first self-assess their
   7     work before submitting it to the teacher. Once submitted the teacher
   8     assesses the student's piece of work using the same assessment form. The
   9     teacher can give feedback to the student  and ask the student to improve
  10     the work and re-submit it or not as the case may be. The final grade is
  11     based on how well the student assessed their own work and the work itself.</p>
  12
  13 <p>Before the start of the exercise the teacher sets up the exercise by
  14 <ol> <li>Creating a Word document or HTML file which introduces the exercise
  15     and tells the students what they have to produce. This file is uploaded
  16     into the exercise by the teacher.</li>
  17
  18 <li>Adding the textual elements and choosing the options in the Assessment
  19     Form. This form is used by both the students and the teacher to assess the
  20     work produced in the exercise. There are various types of assessment
  21     which can be used (see the help on &quot;Grading Strategy&quot;)</li>
  22 </ol></p>
  23
  24 <p>In large classes, the teacher may find to helpful to create more than one version
  25     of the exercise. These variants add a degree of variety to the exercise and
  26     ensure that students are doing different tasks in the exercise. They
  27     are allocated to the students in a random but balanced way. Each student
  28     receives only one exercise but the number of
  29     times each variant is allocated in a class is approximately the same. Note
  30     the variants should not be too different as the same assessment form is used for
  31     all of the variants.</p>
  32
  33 <p>With the description(s) of the exercise and the assessment form in place,
  34     the assignment is opened to the students. They are shown a description
  35     of the exercise or task. When they have done the exercise they must assess
  36     their own work (using the pre-prepared assessment form) before they can
  37     submit their work to the teacher. The assessment form can be used as a
  38     &quot;checklist&quot; by the students. They can, if they wish, revise both
  39     their work and the assessment before they actually submit their work, and
  40     probably they should be encouraged to do so!</p>
  41
  42 <p>Once a student has submitted their work both their assessment and the piece
  43     of work itself becomes available to the teacher. The teacher accesses the
  44     pieces of work (using the student's assessment as a starting point) and
  45     make a decision whether to ask the student to re-submit an improved
  46     version of the work or not.</p>
  47
  48 <p>If the teacher feels that the student's piece of work could be improved, the
  49     student can be given the opportunity to re-submit. If this is taken up the
  50     teacher re-assesses the work using an assessment form which contains
  51     the grades and comments they gave to the student's previous submission.
  52     Thus, the re-assessment is then a matter of updating the form in the light
  53     of the student revised work rather than undertaking an assessment from
  54     scratch.</p>
  55
  56 <p>When the deadline for the exercise is reached students can continue to submit.
  57     However, such work is flagged as &quot;late&quot;. The teacher can, if
  58     desired, grade the work and give feedback to the student. The grades of
  59     late work are held back and are <b>not</b> used in the calculation of final
  60     grades. If, for whatever reason, the teacher wishes to accept a piece of
  61     late work as a normal piece of work the late flag can be cleared by going
  62     into the Administration page, finding the submission and clicking on the
  63     appropriate link. The grade for that work will then be used in the calculation
  64     of a final grades.</p>
  65
  66 <p>When all the submissions have been graded, the exercise is moved to the
  67     final phase. Further student submissions are now not allowed. The students
  68     can now see their final grades together with the grades given to their
  69     submission(s). A student's grade for the exercise is the sum of the
  70     student's &quot;grading grade&quot;, a measure of the agreement between
  71     the student's assessment and the teacher's assessment of the student's
  72     (first) submission, and the teacher's grade(s) for the student's
  73     submission(s). (The grade given by the student in their assessment is
  74     <b>not</b> used.) </p>
  75
  76 <p>When the teacher allows students to resubmit work, the teacher should
  77     consider how to set the option which controls how the student's final grade
  78     is calculated from multiple submissions.  This option allows the teacher to
  79     choose between using the mean grade of the student's  submissions or their
  80     best submission.  This option can changed at any time and it has an immediate
  81     effect in the grades screen.</p>
  82
  83 <p>In the final phase of the exercise the students can also see a &quot;League
  84     Table&quot; of submissions. This an ordered list of the submissions, the
  85     submission which received the highest grade is at the top. When there are
  86     multiple submissions only the student's best submission is show in this list.</p>
  87