Lock Assignment Submissions

If you don’t want students to be able to modify their assignment submissions past a certain point, you can lock submissions. Typically you would do that after the due date, or while a multi-stage assignment was in a review and feedback stage.

Step 1

In Moodle visit the assignment you want to lock submissions for and click View all submissions.

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Step 2

  • Tick the Select box next to the students you want to change, or;
  • tick the Select box at the top of the screen to select all students
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Step 3

Below the list of students, set the With selected… option box to Lock submissions and click Go.

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Step 4

Click OK in the pop-up to confirm you want to lock the selected submissions.

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Step 5

Any students with locked submissions will now have a note reading Submission changes not allowed. You can always reverse the process the unlock selected submissions.

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