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- To note - when you use the Turnitin iPad app you bypass Moodle entirely; your iPad connects directly to Turnitin server and vice versa.
- What Turnitin refers to as 'syncing' doesn't merge - it overwrites that entire submission inbox. Read on for examples of how this could affect you.
- More than one marker for an essay? See guidance further down the page. Syncing from the app actually overwrites any existing marks and comments. In other words, marks will be saved from the last device that marks were synced from. If the marker on the iPad app didn't have the markings of the other markers synced to the iPad app prior to creating his or her markings, then only the marker who used the iPad app will have their markings synced and saved. If more than one marker is using an iPad app, the one who syncs last overwrites any other markings in the submission inbox. This is because Turnitin is designed for only a single marker at any one time (though there are plans to support multiple marking). We make some suggestions below.
- Sharing marking of a cohort between colleagues? If one of you is using an iPad, this gets complicated because 'syncing' to the iPad brings over all the submissions on the assignment, and 'syncing' from the iPad overwrites the entire inbox. So if you synced an inbox before your colleague had done their marking, then when you synced your markings back to Turnitin, you'd overwrite any marking they had done with the corresponding unmarked submissions on your iPad.
- Want to mark partly on your iPad and partly on your desktop or laptop? Again, take great care because 'syncing' from your iPad will overwrite any existing markings on Turnitin's server. If those markings were synced to your iPad in the first place, then no problem. But if they weren't, then you'd lose them.
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For more in-depth information about using Turnitin for iPad, check out the interactive tutorial using the “Try Tutorial” button inside the app.
Does the app allow multiple markers at once
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No.
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, or share marking for a submission inbox?
Be aware that synching from your iPad isn't 'synching' in the strict sense of the word because although Turnitin technically allows different markers, it hasn't designed the software for them. So rather than merging marks and comments, synching will overwrite any existing marks and comments. Marks will be saved from the last device marks were synched from. If the marker on the iPad app didn't have the markings of the other markers synched to the iPad app prior to creating his or her markings, then only the markers who used the iPad app will have their markings synched and saved. This is because, as Turnitin only provides for a single marker at any one time.
So, the scenario is that you have a large cohort submitting to a single assignment, and have divided them into, say, three groups and allocated each group to a different marker. One way to reduce risk of iPad overwriting is to use Moodle Groupings and as many separate Turnitin assignments as there are markers, each made available only to a single Grouping. What is a Grouping? Whereas enabling Groups for an Activity still means that the Activity is available to all students, creating a Grouping of one or more Groups allows an Activity or a Resource to be made available to just some students.
The instructions below will divide the cohort into three without confusing students by displaying three Turnitin Assignments - each student will see only their respective Assignment. They will match each Turnitin Assignment with its marker - this means that if that marker uses the iPad app and then syncs markings back to Turnitin, they will not overwrite any other marker's markings.
- First create Groups (see the M13 guide) based on which students are allocated to which markers - i.e. one Group per marker. It makes sense to use each marker's name as a Group title.
- As well as adding students, add the marker to the Group.
- Next create Groupings (see the M13 guide) - again one per marker. Since in this case they map directly onto the Groups you made above, you can give the Groupings the same titles.
- Add each Group to its respective Grouping.
- Next, create (in this scenario) three separate Turnitin assignments.
- For each, enable its Grouping, and check the Available for group members only box to restrict access to just that Grouping.
- Yes, it's a bit confusing the first time round.
How can I see an Originality Report?
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