Upload a student response to a document upload question

Document upload questions can be authored to generate a unique document code.

A student will send you their response (Example — by email) to a document upload question in the form of a document that references the document code.

NOTE: The student's document code is a unique numeric, alphabetic, or alphanumeric character set that was generated for them during their document upload question attempt (after they've clicked Generate Code within the question).

You'll then save the student's document locally on your computer so that you can upload each individual document to Möbius.

You can then navigate to the Gradebook to manually grade their document submission that you've uploaded on the student's behalf.

TIP: You can also perform bulk uploads of student documents as a .zip file, including assigned grades. Check out Bulk upload of student responses to document upload questions.

NOTE: Students will upload their document responses to Möbius themselves from within the activity if the document upload question is authored as direct upload.

Individual student document upload

To upload an individual student document response to Möbius for a document upload question:

  1.  Click External on the Class Homepage.

The External menu is the fifth menu option of the main Möbius navigational menu on the Class Homepage.

  1.  Click Document Upload.

Document Upload is the third option in the External drop down menu.

  1.  Define a search parameter in the Document Upload Search pane so that you can match the document submission that you've received from your student to the available document code in Möbius:

The Document Upload Search pane contains check boxes for activity, document code, and user search parameters.

IMPORTANT: You must select at least 1 search parameter check box and its related fields. Otherwise, no search results will be displayed when you click Search.

  • Select the Activity check box and respective activity from the list of units and activities if you know where the student would've accessed the document upload question from.

The Activity checkbox is selected, and the name of an activity is highlighted by the cursor.

  • Or, select the Document Code check box and enter a value if you know any information about the student's document code.
  • Then, select which radio button this entered value represents:
  • Starting with — The first character(s) of the document code.
  • Anywhere — Located somewhere within the document code.
  • Exact — A complete document code that's an exact match.

The Document Code checkbox is selected, a code value is entered in the text box, and the Starting with radio button is selected.

  • Or, select the User check box and enter a unique student identifier.
  • Then, select which type of unique student identifier is defined using the drop-down list:
  • Login
  • Email
  • Student ID

The User checkbox is selected, a username is entered in the text box, and Login is selected in the drop down list.

TIP: You can select more than 1 parameter. Example — You can select the Activity check box as well as the Document Code check box (and complete the relevant fields for those 2 parameters).

TIP: Click Reset at anytime to start a new search.

The Reset button is highlighted.

  1. (Optional) Select which type of document codes to include from the drop-down list in the Document Upload Search pane:

In the drop down list, the "all codes" option is selected.

  • All codes — Show all available document codes.
  • Codes with files — Only show document codes that you've already uploaded files for.
  • Codes without files — Only show document codes that you haven't yet uploaded files for.
  1. (Optional) Select how many records to display on the search results page from the Document Upload Search pane.

  1.  Click Search.

The Search button is highlighted.

  1.  The student or activity that matches your search criteria is displayed in the Document Uploads pane. Match the document code in the Code column to the document code referenced by your student for the document that was sent to you.

In the Document Uploads pane, a result is listed in the table and the Code column is highlighted.

  1. Click Choose File and open the student document that matches the document code in the table.

In the Document Uploads pane, the Choose File button in the Upload column is highlighted.

NOTE: The allowed file extensions are displayed in the table. These permitted file extensions are defined when the document upload question is authored.

Allowed File Extensions are listed in the fifth column of the Document Uploads pane.

  1.  Click Upload.

In the Upload column of the Document Uploads pane, a file is listed next to the Choose File button and the Upload button is highlighted.

  1.  The document is uploaded and the file can now be previewed from the Code column. Click on the file name to preview the upload in a new window.

In the Code column of the Document Uploads pane, a link for uploaded document is highlighted.

  1. Navigate to the Gradebook to manually grade the uploaded document.