Collection of Assessment guides. i.e. Creating assignments, Managing permissions, and Marking & Feedback
There may be occasions when you need to download students’ submissions to Turnitin, such as: To print out paper copies of students’ work submitted electronically. To save a copy of student work locally to your computer, to either view it offline or mark outside of Turnitin. To archive copies of either the original file submitted […]
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Anonymous marking is addressed in The University Examinations and Assessment Handbook, which states, “Wherever practicable and appropriate, coursework should remain anonymous to the marker until the marking has been completed.” Turnitin allows for the anonymous marking of papers submitted by students, by hiding students’ names from markers and programme administrators. Some points to note: How do
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QuickMarks is the name used within Turnitin for frequently used comments that can be inserted into a student’s assignment. These comments can be created, saved and re-used on any assignment from an individual marker’s library of comments. They are available from the QuickMarks section of the Instructor Feedback toolbar when marking an assignment using the
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When might I do this? In some disciplines (e.g. Fine Arts, Theatre or Mathematics), students will often be assessed on work which is not suitable for online submission. However, you may want to take advantage of Turnitin’s grading tools to provide feedback via the University’s virtual learning environment (VLE). Similarly, you may wish to provide
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In your course, you can access all Turnitin assignments by going to the submission point for the relevant assignment. Open Turnitin for your Assignment There are two ways to access the Turnitin assignment inbox for your assessment via the Gradebook or via the submission point. Open via the submission point Go to the Course Content
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How to manage “best out of” Gradescope exams and other assessments, where students can answer all of the questions, but are only the best x marks are counted. Example: Section A (compulsory) and Section B (best x answers out of y questions – e.g. best 2 out of 4). How can you adjust the total
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How to manage the marks for Gradescope exams and other assessments where students can choose which questions to answer. e.g. Students answer 2 out of 4 questions. A mark will need to be entered in Gradescope for each question – including those not answered. If using Positive marking enter 0 for the unanswered questions. If
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Introduction If you enrol external examiners onto a course with the External Examiner role, they should be able to access Gradescope assessments for that course, but you may need to edit their permissions in Gradescope – see Setting the external examiner’s permissions. Once into Gradescope, they can use the Gradescope dashboard to access other courses
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Introduction Gradescope is an assessment tool which has been used since 2021 for exams and coursework in a limited number of subjects. Most Gradescope exams are of the ‘Homework / Problem Set’ type – students generally write their answers by hand on paper, then scan their work and upload it to Gradescope. A handful have been
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When should I Sync the Roster? Synching the Roster updates the membership of a Gradescope course so that it matches the corresponding Blackboard course. You do not have to Sync the Roster in order for students to be able to submit to Gradescope – when they click on a Gradescope link in Blackboard their details
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