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- Anonymous marking: see below for a definition and explanation.
- Bulk-download: downloading the contents of a submission inbox for marking outside Turnitin.
- Candidate number: a unique identifier (four letters and one digit) which students receive annually.
- Combinations of blind/open, full/sampled second marking: refer to the UCL Marking Policy*.
- External examining: refer to the UCL Marking Policy.
- Grademark: Turnitin's own marking environment.
- Intermediary: somebody without marking responsibilities, perhaps in an administrative or technical role.
- Markings: all notes, specific and general comments, and numeric marks made by markers.
- Moderating: refer to the UCL Marking Policy.
- Moodle Assignment: Moodle offers a separate online assessment environment. Its marking and feedback possibilities currently differ from Turnitin's. Only Turnitin offers an Originality Report, and Turnitin's suite of online annotation tools is slightly more developed.
- Paper ID: a numeric identifier unique to each paper, generated by Turnitin, but currently irrelevant outside Turnitin.
- Post Date: point at which marks and feedback are released to students (at this point student anonymity is lifted, and bulk download of student submissions by staff becomes available).
- Proxy identifier: see below for a definition and explanation.
- Student Record Number (SRN): this appears on the front of every student's ID card.
- Submission filename: the name of the file(s) submitted; this becomes important in cases where students' work is downloaded for marking outside Turnitin.
- Submission title: the title students type into Turnitin when submitting their work. This displays in the Turnitin inbox and can be used to allocate submissions to subject specialist markers.
- submitturnitinuk.ac.ukcom: allows access (where there are existing permissions) to a Turnitin submission inbox independently of Moodle; affords downloading of Grademarked work and - though only after the Post Date - original unmarked work. Please note Digital Education cannot support your activities on turnitinuk.com - if you need help with it, use the helpdesk there.
- Window of opportunity: a phrase used in this guidance to refer to a period just after Grademarking (if used) is complete and just before the Post Date de-anonymises students. During this window the still-anonymous, Grademarked submissions, complete with markings, can be downloaded from submitturnitinuk.ac.uk com for distribution to other markers outside Turnitin after the Post Date. The window of opportunity is negotiated by course leaders, markers and intermediaries.
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Where Grademark has been used and second marking happens after the Post Date, then an intermediary accesses the inbox via submitturnitinuk.ac.uk (for instructions see https://wiki.ucl.ac.uk/display/MoodleResourceCentre/Staff+Turnitin+FAQs#StaffTurnitinFAQs-HowdoIbulkdownloadTurnitinassignments%3F - note that submit.ac.uk only allows com (note that turnitinuk.com only allows Grademarked work to be downloaded before the Post Date i.e. not original the originally-submitted unmarked work) and sorts it to identify a sample which is then downloaded and securely passed, outside Turnitin, to the second marker. If a brief window of opportunity can be made to download this sample after marking is complete but before the Post Date de-anonymises student work, this both potentially saves a great deal of time for whomever carries out this task and enables a marker to do it. Otherwise, However, if the Post Date has passed then an intermediary needs do it, manually re-anonymising all submissions by removing or redacting the student name Turnitin appends after the Post Date.
Please note that Digital Education is unable to offer technical support for your turnitinuk.com activity - Turnitin do offer their own support though.
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Open second marking after the Post Date
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Where Grademark has been used, if a brief window of opportunity can be created to download the submissions from submitturnitinuk.ac.uk com after marking is complete but before the Post Date de-anonymises student work, this potentially saves a great deal of time for whomever carries out the task, and also allows a marker to do it. However, if the Post Date has passed, an intermediary needs to carry out the task, re-anonymising all submissions manually by removing the student name Turnitin appends after the Post Date.
Where marking has taken place outside Turnitin, the process is more convoluted. From submitturnitinuk.ac.uk com an intermediary downloads the original files (only available after the Post Date), re-anonymises these by removing the name Turnitin appends to the submission filename, ensures the Candidate Number is present in the filename, and securely passes these to the second marker along with the first marker's markings.
Please note that Digital Education is unable to offer technical support for your turnitinuk.com activity - Turnitin do offer their own support though.
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Blind second marking
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Can't staff who are supposed to be anonymously marking after the Post Date simply look up students' names on submitturnitinuk.ac.ukcom?
This is technically possible where a marker has a Tutor role on the Moodle course area. However, it would require a purposeful decision, on the part of a marker, to flout the anonymous marking policy. Such Similar opportunities for malpractice abound exist in many areas of academia as a consequence of the high degree of workplace autonomy academia requires. To design an entire e-assessment approach round an assumption of deliberate malpractice on the part of academic markers would be extreme and bring many and negative side effects.
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Can staff bulk-download an entire inbox of anonymous submissions directly from submitturnitinuk.ac.ukcom?
Before the Post Date submitturnitinuk.ac.uk com allows staff to bulk-download only submissions which have been Grademarked, with anonymity intact; these retain their anonymity. Only after the Post Date can original files be downloaded – but after the Post Date Turnitin prefixes each file name with the student's name, thus compromising anonymity. In this case, an intermediary would manually need to re-anonymise the submissions by removing or redacting these names (a considerable task). Moodle Assignment, on the other hand, allows bulk-download of anonymous work at any time until the marks are released to students.
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Guidance on anonymous marking in Turnitin - including second marking, moderating and external examining by UCL E-Learning Environments is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at https://wiki.ucl.ac.uk/display/MoodleResourceCentre/.