Setting up Assignments and providing effective feedback

Zafer Ali

Learning outcomes

At the end of the session users will be able to: -

• Create a standard Turnitin assignment in MOLE

• Utilise the “more options” pane to tailor the assignment

• Utilise a QuickMark set to provide feedback to students

• Utilise general comments and audio to provide feedback to students

• Grade a Turnitin submission using a Grading form

What is Turnitin?

1. Turnitin is a software programme recently acquired (June 2014) by Insight Venture Partners

2. Turnitin is a text matching and electronic assessment tool licensed for use by the University since 2008

3. Most University departments use Turnitin through MOLE

4. Turnitins’ text matching service trawls billions of web pages, online journals, articles and publications

The Turnitin advantage….

• Student learning: Improving writing skills

• Efficient assessment administration

• Providing a safe electronic archive for submissions

• Text matching

• Electronic marking (or e-marking)

• Electronic feedback (or e-feedback)

• Peer Review

Lets go hands on….

New developments

• Turnitin has been taken over by Insight Venture partners

– Increased investment

• New document viewer (DV) - better readability, more functions

• Interface will have main navigation on the right hand side

• Multiple markers

• Notifications for students who haven't submitted

• Group submissions and multiple drafts

• Responsive design (Touch compatibility – for tablet/mobile devices)

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