I want students to be able to submit assignments online as a file OR on paper. It seems that to do this I have to set the assignment type to Online. Unfortunately, this then means that even if I have entered marks for work submitted on paper the assignment status will change to "Missing" when the due date arrives. This can be manually returned to "None" but not until after the due date. I feel we desperately need a "Submitted" status. Am I missing something?
Hi Keith Oatley
Not sure that this is possible - but, you could include a text entry as well as a file upload in the submission type. Then ask students who submit on paper to write a note in the text entry that they have submitted on paper. Then something would appear and the date of submission would be seen too. Its not what you want exactly but I think this would work.
regards
Isobel
Isobel,
Thanks for the reply. This would partially address the issue but requiring students to take this additional step and then relying on the submission of the text entries to correlate precisely with the submission of hard copies would be much less than ideal.
Regards
Keith
Keith, I've marked Isobel's response as the Correct Answer because, as she stated, it isn't currently possible to set the submission type to Online OR Paper.
You're not alone in wanting this to be an option! Please add your support to Allow Multiple Submission Types on the Same Assignment , which is currently open for voting. You might also want to follow Priority: Assignments 2.0 , where you'll see that that "Require more than one submission type (url AND file upload OR Text Entry)" is part of the plan.
Hi Keith Oatley
Not sure that this is possible - but, you could include a text entry as well as a file upload in the submission type. Then ask students who submit on paper to write a note in the text entry that they have submitted on paper. Then something would appear and the date of submission would be seen too. Its not what you want exactly but I think this would work.
regards
Isobel