If you would like students to submit their Take Home Exams (THE) digitally via Moodle
please note the following recommendation to ensure that the process runs as smoothly as possible:
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Create activity as Take Home Exam solution: Create the activity in Moodle. Make sure that the submission activity is configured accordingly and is only accessible to students at the time of the exam (i.e. hide exam, set test opening/closing, set exam password)
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Check the upload settings in the course: Are the submission settings simple and clear for the participants? Check your file submission settings by switching to the "Student" role (click on your name at the top right and then select "Change role ..." at the bottom of the list and then "Student").
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IMPORTANT: Testing the submission: First test your exam submission from the role of participant. How do the common browsers (Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Edge Chromium etc.) behave? Do updates need to be installed on the browsers?
- Test run with the students: Before you move on to the real exam submission, carry out a test run with the course participants at an early stage under the same conditions (type of upload, type of file, size of file, approximately the same number of participants, time limit, upload time, etc.).
- Internet connection: Inform the participants to have a LAN cable ready just in case.
- Power connection: The participants' laptops/computers should be connected to the power grid and should not run on battery power alone during the editing process.
- Internet browser: Recommend uploading via a specific browser.
- Sufficiently large time window for submission: Create a sufficiently large time window for the submission deadline. Remember that students at different locations with different internet connections may want to access the system at the same time. With a weaker bandwidth, an upload > 50 MB (plus system-side virus scan) can take several minutes with multiple simultaneous access!
Hence the reference to the possible use of a LAN cable! - Early login: For the same reason, make sure that students do not log into the system shortly before the submission deadline.
