Now I'm going to tell a story on myself. I'm an admin in Moodle 1.9, and I tested Ajax Marking, but I could not get it to work. I could never see students or the assignments they owed.
3 or more years later, I was reviewing a Moodle book -- forthcoming from Michael de Raadt & Gavin Henrick -- and learned that admins don't see anything in the block because they are not teachers!
All of which is to say, Warren, that I think Ajax Marking is really what you want. Here are screen shots of what it does.
This block appears on your home page and in all your courses. What you see above are two courses, "Restore" and "RUL1-131A," listing all submissions that have not been graded by Assignment name. You click on the Assignment name, and you get the names of the students and the number of files submitted.
Next, you click on a student's name and a new window pops up, showing you that studen'ts submission. Feedback comments and Feedback files are below the bottom of this picture. You can literally grade the work without going into the course. And, because you only see what hasn't been graded, misplaced submissions can be easily detected.
