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Here at Oxford Brookes, we have a  Blue Card scheme enabling students with specific learning difficulties (SpLDs) to flag their work with a blue card , so the tutor will mark it with due consideration. There are two ways of submitting a Moodle assignment that might be required to be assessed differently if a student has a specific learning difficulty: the  Turnitin assignment , and the  Moodle assignment . Here's what the JavaScript blue card functionality will look like in Moodle to a lecturer. Please note this is a proof of concept and is not yet available in live Moodle. We run a Moodle query in the background to check whether the student is entitled to a blue card, and only display the blue card button to them if they are entitled to use it. When the lecturer opens the submissions to a Moodle or Turnitin assignment, the ones who have added a blue card will be highlighted. Moodle Assignment Log in to Moodle.  Go to your course and then your assignment.  ...

Here at Oxford Brookes, we have a  Blue Card scheme enabling students with specific learning difficulties (SpLDs) to flag their work with a blue card , so the tutor will mark it with due consideration. We needed a way of making it easier for students to flag their work with a blue card, and I have come up with the following script, which goes into the Additional HTML section in Site Administration in Moodle, and works with the Moodle Assignment functionality (see previous post for a blue card script that works with the Turnitin plugin ). First the student clicks the button to add the blue card, which inserts a comment with the words "Blue Card" in the submission comments field. When the form is submitted, the JavaScript looks for a comment in the grading table, and adds a flag in the status column to remind the tutor to review the comments. The tutor can then display the comment and see the words "Blue Card" (which are a link to the dyslexia marking guidelines). /* ...

Here at Oxford Brookes, we have a Blue Card scheme enabling students with specific learning difficulties (SpLDs) to flag their work with a blue card , so the tutor will mark it with due consideration. We needed a way of making it easier for students to flag their work with a blue card, and I have come up with the following script, which goes into the Additional HTML section in Site Administration in Moodle, and works with the Turnitin plugin. (See the next post for a script that works with Moodle assignments .) First the student clicks the button to add the blue card, which inserts the text "Blue Card: " at the start of the assignment title. When the form is submitted, the JavaScript looks for the text "Blue Card" on the next page, colours the table cell blue and appends a link to the dyslexia marking guidelines.   <script type=" text/javascript "> var TurnitinBlueCardButton =  ' <input type="button" id="tiibluecard" value=...