The course is organised into topic sections that a teacher can give titles to. Each topic section consists of activities, resources and labels. In new installations of Moodle, this is the default format.

"Show only one section"

With the Weekly, Topics and any contributed format that implements the functionalty, it is possible via Administration > Course administration > Edit settings to "show one section per page". Here is a course with eight topics, with the third one currently shown. The links left and right lead to topics two and four:

This is a format that is essentially the same as the standard Topic and Weekly formats but with a 'toggle' for each section except '0'. The toggles' purpose is to reduce the amount of initial information presented to the user thus reducing the 'scroll of death' that can plague courses with a lot of content. The 'state' of the toggles is remembered on a per course per user basis. For more information, please visit Collapsed_Topics_course_format.

It should contain all the instructions for formatting and submitting the assignment, as well as grading criteria. You may want to add a link to a rubric document. Be as detailed about your expectations as possible, especially early in the semester, to minimise questions, issues and anxiety for your students.

Selecting Enable and specifying dates and times at which you want to Allow submissions, the Due date, the Cut-off date and Remind me to grade by. 

If you select No at Always show description, the text in the Description field will only display to students on and after the Allow submissions from date.

• Task dates display on a student's home page when they first log in, and in the Moodle Calendar, which can be subscribed or imported by other calendar programs.
• By default, students can submit after the Due date, but not after the Cut-off date. However, Instructors can grant an extension to allow an individual to submit later.
• The Cut-off date defaults to the Due date meaning no late submissions are enabled by default.  To allow late submissions adjust the Cut-off date.
• Remind me to grade by is the date by which you expect the marking of the submissions to be complete. Enable this date to help you prioritise dashboard notifications. This date will display on your Course overview block and in the Calendar, when at least one student has submitted.  

1. Online text  - students submit their assignment by placing text in the Moodle text editor. 
   • For essays of any length, advise them to complete their work offline and cut-and-paste it into Moodle, rather than risk losing their work if anything happens to their Moodle connection mid-submission.
2. File submissions - allow students to upload an assignment file as their submission. (You can now create an assignment that allows both online text and file submission.)
   • Specify the Maximum number of uploaded files and the Maximum submission size. (These settings relate to file submissions and to files uploaded to the assignment activity. The maximums for the media collection itself are specified in the media collection activity settings.)
   • If you wish to restrict the file types which can be submitted to the assignment, you can specify the file type as an extension. For example if you wish to only allow pdf submissions, in the Accepted File type field, type .pdf .
   • If you wish to set a word limit on the online text part of the assignment, Enable the Word limit field and enter the maximum number of words allowed.

1. Complete the section. You can now allow feedback as comments and files, and create an Offline grading worksheet here instead of in the Gradebook. The offline worksheet ensures that marks go into the right activity, and can be used by Tutors without the risk of giving them access to the whole Gradebook. Comments and grades (but not feedback files) can be downloaded as a spreadsheet.
   
   
    
• Selecting Yes for Comment inline will result in the original submission being copied into the feedback comment field during grading, so that you can add inline comments (e.g. using a different colour) or edit the original text. The student's original submission will be kept intact.
2. 1. In the Submission settings section:
      
      
       
   • Selecting Yes for Require students click submit button will allow students to keep a draft version of the submission on the system, only submitting it when it is final.
   • At Attempts reopened, click the Help icon to help you decide which option to select.
   • If you select anything other than Never at Attempts reopened, at Maximum attempts select the maximum number of attempts at this assignment that you will allow.
   
   

• If yes, under  settings:
• At Students submit in groups select Yes.
• At Require group to make submission, select Yes if appropriate (the Require students click submit button under Submissions settings must be selected Yes for this check box to be active).
• At Require all group members submit, select Yes only if you want to prevent users who are not in a group from submitting an assignment.
• Select the appropriate Grouping for students groups from the drop-down list.

1. In the section:
• At Notify graders about submissions, select No unless it is particularly important that teachers be notified of each individual submission. Be sure to select No if you will be setting up blind marking for this assignment.
• If you selected No at Notify graders about submissions, you can also choose whether you want to Notify graders about late submissions.
• At Default setting for "Notify students", you can set the default value for the Notify students check box on the grading form.  The default setting is No.
• Select No at Display marker details to students if you want to prevent students seeing the details of the last user who modified their grade or feedback.

• At , select the maximum attainable mark (or the appropriate scale) for this assignment from the drop-down list.
• At Grading method, you can choose to mark the assignment by simply assigning a grade, or using a marking guide or a rubric.
• At Grade category select the Gradebook category where you want this assignment's marks to be placed (if used).
• At Grade to pass enter the minimum grade required to pass. This is used in activity and course completion (if activated) and highlights pass/fail marks in the gradebook.
• Select whether you want Blind marking to be done for this assignment. Once an assignment has been submitted or a mark entered for the assignment, you will not be able to change the blind marking setting.
• Select No at Use marking workflow if you do not want to set up multiple rounds of marking and manually release marks to students. If you do, leave Yes selected. For further information, see the Use marking workflow instructions on the marking page.
• Select Yes at Use marking allocation if you want to allocate students to a specific marker to selected students. To complete the allocation once the assignment is created, follow the marking allocation completion instructions on this page.

General

Condition:Activity completion

Condition:Completion of other courses

This setting allows you to make "the completion of another course" as a condition for completing the course you are currently working in. This does not block the student from your current course; it simply means that the current course will not be marked complete until the first course has been marked complete. Thus, completion of the current course is dependent upon completion of an earlier course. Just select one or more courses in the "Courses available box".

Note: To remove a course from the list if it is not required, press CTRL+click on the highlighted course and it will be deselected.

Condition: Date

Condition: Enrolment duration

Condition: Unenrolment

Condition: Course grade

Condition: Manual self-completion

Condition: Manual completion by others