 Moodle 4 – Assignment Assignments in Moodle 4 can now include activity instructions for when students begin an assignment and an assignment timer. Along with other graded activities, assignments can now be marked complete based on a passing grade. And as with all activities and resources in Moodle 4, the teacher can now notify students of new or updated content. Let's follow our teacher as he clicks to add an assignment from the new coloured activity icon. The colour reflects the assignment's function in the course, which is to assess learners. He can add a description, which may optionally be displayed on the course page, but he also has a new area, Activity Instructions. Here he can explain what students need to do and they'll see these instructions once they've started work on their assignment and not before. Scrolling down the settings, he is also now able to set a time limit on the assignment, so in this case, he chooses 15 minutes. This assignment will have a pass grade, and with Moodle 4, it is now possible to make that pass grade a completion condition, so it will only show as complete once the student has reached the required level. Finally, a useful new feature available in all activities and resources, not just assignments, is the Content Change Notification. When our teacher adds new content to the course or updates existing content, he can tick this box to let students know. If we now log in as student Paula, we see she's been notified that there's a new assignment. She can go directly to that assignment, and when she clicks to begin the assignment, then she sees the instructions. Luckily, Paula passes the assignment and it shows as completed on the course page. To summarise, Moodle 4 assignments include activity instructions and a timer, and benefit from the new grade to pass completion condition and content change notifications.