First visit the site administration -> notifications page to upgrade the module Enter some text in the "assign | submissionstatement" admin setting (e.g. "This is my own work") Set "assign | requiresubmissionstatement" to "Yes" Create a new instance of the assignment module (online text submission) with "Require students click submit button" set to no Login as a student and add a submission - you should be forced to accept the submission statement when you enter some text. Login as a teacher and change the assignment settings so that "Require students click submit button" is set to yes. Revert the previous student submission to draft. Login as a student and edit the submission - you should NOT be forced to accept the submission statement when you enter some text. Now submit the submission as a student - you SHOULD be forced to accept the submission statement. Login as a site admin and set "assign | requiresubmissionstatement" to "No" (Site administration -> Plugins -> Activity Modules -> Assignment) Find the assignment you created earlier and edit it's settings. Check that you set "Require students accept the submission statement" to yes or no. Login as a student and verify that the setting "Require students accept the submission statement" is hiding or showing the submission statement when submitting/editing the submission.