Submitting written assignments

Quick question about submitting written assignments on moodle. I’m probably way over thinking this but it’s been a long time since I’ve been in school and things have changed quite a bit.

First I wasn’t sure if I should copy and paste my finished paper directly into the box that is there on moodle or attach my paper as a separate document. I noticed that the formatting tools available would not let me actually do APA formatting as there is no option to change the font or double space the work.

So I ended up coping the text, formatting what I could and uploading a file as well.

I use google docs and downloaded the finished paper as a .docx which is what I ended up uploading.

So do I need to do both? And will a docx document be a problem.

Thank you!