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- submission with deadlines.
- ability to hide marking from students until a certain date.
- a an online feedback environment which integrates bubble comments (including supports the use of reusable comments, inline annotations, general comments and rubrics / marking guides, and a numeric mark.
- download submissions to look at without a network connection.
- anonymous marking (student names are hidden).
Particular benefits of Moodle Assignment:
- submission in groups.mark anonymised work offline using Word or PDF annotation tools and , with feedback and grades available and attributed to every group member.
- supports the marking of any file type (Turnitin supports submission of any file type, but only allows marking of particular types of files - e.g. Word, PDF, jpeg.
- allows scale and letter grades, as well as a numeric mark.
- offline marking with the ability to bulk-upload the marks and feedback (no special hardware or software needed).:
- using Word or PDF annotation tools to mark the submission directly.
- provide additional feedback files of any type, such as a completed mark sheet or media (e.g. an audio recording commenting on group work or a video of maths work being marked using a tablet).
- grade and provide general feedback comments in a spreadsheet (downloadable from Moodle) and bulk upload back into the Assignment for automatic distribution back to students;
- general feedback and criteria comments from rubrics and marking guides are visible in the My Feedback report.
- on the rubric, the ability to give summary feedback for each criterion.
- online marking interface for any file type, which includes the ability to:
- add feedback symbols, including ticks and crosses.
- add freehand drawn feedback, for example connecting lines or corrections on graphs.
- upload feedback files in any format.
- support for multiple markers in the form of a workflow and some protections to prevent marks being overwritten in error.
- support for extenuating circumstances and discretionary deadlines for individuals.
Particular benefits of Turnitin:
- the Originality Report - checking students' sources and referencing by viwing viewing an overlay of matched phases while marking.
- summary spoken feedback recorded directly into Turnitin (no need to save and upload).
- online marking interface;
- drag and drop in-text comments (and re-use saved comments across papers).
- categorise comments for particular modules, assignment types and year levels.
- ability to associated a comment with a single criterion, enabling cross referencing.
- a word count (though note this is inclusive, and may be discrepant from the word processor's word count).
- marks are hidden from students by default until a set date and time known as the 'post date' (with Moodle you have to actively set this).
- if you have an Apple iPad, offline marking in an app*.
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