Keywords: assessment, feedback, grading, marking, plagiarism, referencing, reference.
Please refer to the Digital Assessment - an Overview for an overview of marking in Moodle (regardless of the tool you settle on using - either Moodle or Turnitin).
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- To add a Turnitin assignment to your course, Turn editing on, then click on the Add an activity or resource link and select Assignment (Turnitin).
- Enter a Turnitin Assignment Name
- Enter a Summary, include brief instructions to students on submission deadline, draft submissions, file type etc. Summary text will display at the top of the assignment page (A template is provided below).
- Some settings we'd particularly like to flag up:
- Anonymous Marking -This is enabled by default if you create a new Assignment, if you are re-using an existing assignment, please check the settings before making it Visible to students. Student names will be anonymised until the post date and can only be de-anonymised individually and by providing a reason. Once a submission is made, anonymous marking cannot be disabled. If no submissions have yet been made, anonymity can be turned on or off by selecting Edit settings > Anonymous marking: Yes / No.
Originality Report Options > Store Student Papers :
Standard Repository: student papers submitted to this assignment are stored in Turnitin and checked against other students' submissions within this assignment, as well as other sources.
- No repository - (not stored in Turnitin, for drafts/testing): student papers are checked against other sources, but not against other submissions to this assignment and the paper is not stored in Turnitin. Use this for testing Turnitin and for drafts, so other (standard repository) submissions won't be matched to it.
- Scroll to the bottom of the page and click Save and display.
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- Students need guidance to find any feedback you give using a Rubric. Let them know it exists and where to find it.
- The percentage match on the Similarity Report cannot be used as any indicator of plagiarism.
- If you have a large cohort and wish to divide it into manageable marking loads, set up these groups on Moodle first (and include the marker in the group).
- Ensure both colleagues and students know how you plan to use Turnitin, including grading strategy.
- Turnitin is currently oriented towards single markers. Digital Education can suggest some workflows to manage multiple markers. For example, if you need to keep submissions anonymous for some roles e.g. external examiners but not for others e.g. markers meeting with students, then somebody needs to log into turnitinuk.com before the marks are released, and bulk export the submissions in their original anonymised state.
- Turnitin's word count may be different from that of the original word-processed document, and different again from a PDF export of that original.
- Students may submit up to three times and receive a similarity report within 15 minutes. Further submission submissions will not generate a Similarity Report in less than 24 hours; this is to promote engagement with the reports and avoid gaming.
- To orientate Turnitin to development rather than policing, support students to engage with their Similarity Report before making their final submission.
- Avoid creating Turnitin Assignments by duplicating existing ones, since the new instance will be linked to the inbox of the original instance.
- iPad users, be aware that because syncing overwrites data, multiple markers need to coordinate with extreme caution. ISD is unable to offer technical support for the iPad app.
- Turnitin only recognises quotations within double quotation marks i.e. not inverted commas. This may inflate the percentage match.
- Peer marking is possible, although not necessarily recommended due to some outstanding functionality issues (see separate guidance) - staff configure how work should be allocated and set up questions for student markers to answer.
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