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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. Please note this is a proof of concept and is not yet available in live Moodle. First, 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 if they are entitled to use it. Submitting a Turnitin assignment On the Moodle dashboard, click on the course name. Click on the Turnitin assignment in the course    Click on the My Submissions tab Click on the 'Flag with Blue Card' button Enter your essay title after the word...

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). /* ...