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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. 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 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=...