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How do I assess Turnitin Assignments with Feedback Studio?

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This article will explain how you can assess Turnitin Assignments with Feedback Studio. You have the option to assess with both a grade and inline feedback or just one of both.

If you are interested in using Feedback Studio outside of Brightspace, you can read Turnitin's guide.

Please take into account that simultaneous assessment with multiple markers is not possible. If you want to grade assignments with other colleagues, please make sure you do not evaluate the same student at the same time. Your evaluation of a submission might be overruled by your colleagues when you grade the same student. This also applies for grading in Feedback Studio.

Please see here for more information.

If there are Track Changes from MS Word in the uploaded file, the text will not be shown correctly, and the Similarity Check will also not work properly!

Curious where students will see their grade and/or inline feedback for their Turnitin Assignment? By default they will be able to see their grade and/or feedback under Course Tools > Assignments. But they also might see it under Grades or don't see anything at all, if you have set certain restrictions.

Please see this article for extensive information on how to control when and what grades and feedback students can see. 

Assess with Inline Feedback and a Grade in Feedback Studio

Go to Course Tools > Assignments and click on the assignment you want to assess. The screen below will appear.

From the submission list view click on the pencil icon of a submission to start Evaluation in Turnitin Feedback Studio. A new window will be opened as shown below.

Please note that the word count as shown in the image below differs from the word count in Word. Turnitin does not count words in foot notes, end notes and text frames. Turnitin counts every word in a url. 

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  1. Add inline feedback with Quick Marks / Comments / Text.
  2. Add a score
  3. Use the arrows to navigate to the next submission.

When you are done evaluating with Turnitin Feedback Studio close the window and head back to the Submission view List.

  1. Either refresh the page to sync all data from Turnitin as highlighted above.
  2. Or click on the refresh icon to sync the data from a individual assignment.
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Finally, select all student submissions and click on Publish Feedback to release all inline feedback given in Turnitin Feedback Studio.

Assess only with Inline Feedback in Feedback Studio

Go to Course Tools > Assignments and click on the Assignment you want to assess. The screen below will appear.

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From the submission list view click on the pencil icon of a submission to start Evaluation in Turnitin Feedback Studio. A new window will be opened as shown below.

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  1. Add inline feedback with Quick Marks / Comments / Text.
  2. Use the arrows to navigate to the next submission.

When you are done evaluating with Turnitin Feedback Studio close the window and head back to the Submission view List.

  1. Either refresh the page to sync all data from Turnitin as highlighted above.
  2. Or click on the refresh icon to sync the data from a individual assignment.
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Finally, select all student submissions and click on Publish Feedback to release all inline feedback given in Turnitin Feedback Studio.

Assess only with a Grade in Feedback Studio

Please note that due to a known issue submission only assessed with a grade in Feedback Studio can not be published in bulk. 

You can only publish the scores 1 by 1. See here for more information. 

Go to Course Tools > Assignments and click on the Assignment you want to assess. The screen below will appear.

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From the submission list view click on the pencil icon of a submission to start Evaluation in Turnitin Feedback Studio. A new window will be opened as shown below.

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  1. Add a score
  2. Use the arrows to navigate to the next submission.

When you are done evaluating with Turnitin Feedback Studio close the window and head back to the Submission view List.

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  1. Either refresh the page to sync all data from Turnitin as highlighted above.
  2. Or click on the refresh icon to sync the data from a individual assignment.
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Finally, select all student submissions and click on Publish Feedback to release all grades given in Turnitin Feedback Studio.

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