Thanks. Those are useful strategies. Strategy one I use but it is cumbersome as one has to go through every assignment to see who and who has not submitted.
Strategy Two is useful as long as strategy one is used.
Strategy three is good for graded assignments. I posted about a problem with the gradebook when downloading the grades as the titles of the assignments are all changed when downloaded, ie. First Reflection becomes Assignment First Reflection. I don't know why that does it and need to find out how to get it to revert to the correct title.
I found the home page information as well.
I still don't understand why whoever works on Moodle does not give faculty easy access to what each student has uploaded and where in a global view. Shouldn't it be fairly simple to do?
I will see about the Ajax marking block but I am not sure our admin is willing to put in add ons as they have just migrated us to 2.3 . Worth a try though I guess.
By the way, the genesis of this problem is that some of my students got confused and put assignments in the wrong places and I had to search high and wide for the place they put them in. If there was a global view of all assignments by all students, I could have solved the problem more easily rather than doing the manual work of going through every assignment list. Isn't technology supposed to lessen our work? lol