File Upload Exercise
A file upload exercise asks each student for a file: a scanned worksheet, a PDF report, an image of a hand-drawn diagram. Artemis stores what they hand in and hands it back to you for grading; there is nothing to run and nothing to check automatically, so every submission is assessed by hand.
Use it when the work happens outside Artemis and only the result needs collecting. When you want the work itself to happen in Artemis, one of the other exercise types fits better — a text exercise for prose, a modeling exercise for diagrams.
Create the Exercise
Create on the course's Exercises page in course management opens the Manage Exercises dialog. Its Create tab lists the exercise types; picking File Upload opens the creation form.
The form is the same five sections for every exercise type:
- General — the Title, the Channel Name of the communication channel Artemis opens for the exercise, and the Categories it is filed under.
- Mode — the Difficulty, and Participation, which is where an exercise is made a team exercise. Participation cannot be changed once the exercise exists.
- Problem — the Problem Statement students read, with files you can attach to it.
- Solution — the Example Solution.
- Grading — the dates and the value. Release Date makes the exercise visible, Start Date lets students begin, Due Date stops them working, Assessment Due Date publishes the feedback, and Example Solution Publication Date releases the solution; leave that last one empty and the solution stays with the tutors. Points and Bonus Points set the value, Include this exercise in the course score calculation takes Yes, Bonus or No, and Assessment Instructions are the rubric assessors work from — alongside File Pattern, the one field specific to this exercise type.
File Pattern lists the extensions a student may upload, comma separated and without the dots, for example
png, pdf. A submission whose extension is not on the list is refused, so the list has to cover every form the
answer may legitimately take. There is no default: an empty pattern accepts nothing.
The exercise then appears on the course's exercise list, where Participations lists who took part, Scores shows what they achieved, Edit reopens the form and Delete removes it. The title opens the exercise itself.
Assess Submissions
Assessment opens once the due date has passed. From the assessment dashboard, open the exercise's own dashboard and start an assessment: Artemis hands you one submission at a time.
Artemis does not display the file: Download Submission File hands it over, and the badge beside it says what kind of file it is. Read it outside Artemis, and mark it against the rubric in the Instructions panel beside it. There are no automatic results to build on, so the whole mark comes from the feedback you write. Structured grading instructions are worth setting up first if several people are marking, because they keep the criteria and the points the same across assessors.
Add new Feedback, below the two panels, is where the points and the comment go. Submit publishes the assessment, Save keeps it to finish later, Cancel discards it and releases the lock so somebody else can take the submission.
What Students See
Students choose a file, submit it, and can download it again afterward to confirm what arrived — see File Upload Exercise on the student pages.