More uses for Moodle assignments
We aren't limited to using the four assignment activities just for major projects. Here are some more ideas on using the assignment activity to convert your current teaching over to Moodle.
Include an online text assignment to support tasks for which students can use Moodle's text editor to write their submissions, for example writing a short story or for short essay homework tasks
If you're able to display the Submissions page of a single file assignment to the class during teaching time, keep refreshing the page as homework is submitted. You'll quickly find that there'll be a race on to be the first to hand their homework in. You could easily turn that into a game for younger students.
Use an Offline activity to manage the grades of any task you set your students—homework handed in on paper, for example. You don't have to confine yourself to just projects.
On that last point, there is another way of managing grades directly. We've already been briefly into...
