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Grade export and bulk download

Once an instructor has finished grading a Turnitin Direct assignment part, the student grades for the assignment can be exported to excel. From the content page click on the assignment name to access the Summary page of the assignment. To export the student grades for the assignment part click on the excel icon to export the assignment grades.

To bulk download the papers submitted to the assignment click on either the word doc or pdf icons to download the papers. Clicking the word icon will download the file in the original format it was uploaded in.

Only those papers that have GradeMark feedback will be included in the export.

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Turnitin Feedback Studio is an online tool that is used for grading papers, presentations, and other student work. Work submitted through Turnitin can be marked up with Feedback Studio using the standard as well as customized grading marks. While Feedback Studio itself does not analyze or identify spelling, grammatical, or citation style errors, if e-rater has been enabled during the Turnitin assignment creation process, e-rater will analyze spelling and grammar.

Feedback Studio can be utilized within a Blackboard course. It does not have to be used in conjunction with the Turnitin originality reporting capability. Instructors must first set up a Turnitin assignment before using Feedback Studio features. Once assignments have been submitted, papers can then be graded using Feedback Studio. See the Create a Turnitin Assignment knowledge base article for detailed instructions regarding how to set up a Turnitin assignment.

• Go to the assignment link in the coursework/content area or folder. Click on the assignment link. The Turnitin Assignment Inbox will open.

• A new window with Feedback Studio will open.

Feedback Studio Tools 

Feedback Studio incorporates the originality checker and the grading tools in one screen. When entering a student's paper, Feedback Studio will default to the Instructor Comment panel, located in blue on the right side of the screen. The red panel are the tools for the Originality checker. 

Instructor Feedback

Inline comments.

• The "Check mark" icon allows you to add a QuickMark.

• Type in your comment.
• Click outside of the comment box to close.

• Type in the text box.
• Click outside of the text box to close. The comment will remain visible.

Feedback Summary

The second icon in the Instructor Feedback panel is the Feedback Summary.  Within the Feedback Summary icon is the Voice comment and the Text Comment boxes.

Click on the blue record circle to record up to 3 minutes of audio.

Click in the text box to leave a written summary of the feedback to the learner.

The red panel is the Similarity layer. This replaces the Originality Checker.

Match Overview

The first icon in the Similarity panel is the Flags for Review.

This will check for hidden text. Students attempting to lengthen the word count in a paper will often add white text that can't be seen while reading the paper but will added to the word count.

This will also check for replaced characters. Students may try to replace an "a" with a Cyrillic letter "a" that looks similar but fools the algorithm within Turnitin from identifying direct quotes.

The second icon in the Similarity panel is the Match Overview.  This number indicate the percentage of materials matched to outside sources.  Note: This does not mean that the source has been plagiarized. This includes quotes, bibliography materials, and similar phrases as determined when setting up the Turnitin Assignment.

Click on the number to expand the panel.

All Sources

Filters and Settings

The third icon in the Similarity panel is the Filters and Settings. This allows to to filter out Quotes and Bibliography without returning to the original assignment setting. Filtering out some of the sources will reduce the match percentage and allows you to concentrate on the paper. 

Exclude Sources

The fourth icon in the Similarity panel is the Exclude Sources. This displays any sources that have been excluded in the search.

The first gray icon is the Download icon. Here you can download:

• Current view of the paper, including the markup and comments.
• A PDF file of the Digital Receipt - which include when the paper was uploaded, student's name, file size character count and the Paper Submission ID. If you ever need to contact Turnitin due to a problem with this paper, you will need the Submission ID of the paper.
• Originally Submitted File - the paper in its original format, Word Doc, PDF file, etc. with no markup.  

Submission Information

The second gray icon is the Submission Information.

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Creating a Turnitin Assignment

Turnitin assignments can be created on any course content area (content or assignments) pages. The instructor can open either page by clicking on the content link or assignments link on the left side course menu.

• 1. Go to the content area where you want the Turnitin assignment displayed and, mouse over Build Content.

• 2. Click Turnitin.
• 3. Fill out the Assignment Title and Max Grade (point value).
• 4. Pick the Start Date (when the assignment will become available to students), Due Date (when is the assignment due), and Post Date (when will Turnitin sync grades/feedback with Blackboard).
• 5. Include any instructions for the assignment.

• 6. Now click “Optional Settings.” This menu will allow you to select the specific combinations of settings as. For more information over each and every one of these different settings mouse over the small blue question marks next to their title.
• 7. Press Submit

After creating your new Turnitin assignment you may see a message saying the assignment may not be available to all students. This is expected behavior because Turnitin sets the start date as the date the assignment should be made available to students as an adaptive release rule. Any time an adaptive release rule is set that message will be displayed.

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Turnitin LTI: Download Files

This guide relates only to assignments created using the new Turnitin LTI assignment tool .

When would you need to download files?

• 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 by the student or the electronically marked paper.

How to download individual files

• In the Blackboard Course go to the relevant Turnitin LTI submission point
• Click on the Submission point title to go into the Turnitin LTI Assignment Inbox.

From the Assignment Inbox , there are two ways to download the individual files.

• Go to the paper you wish to download, click on the three dots at the end of the line.  From the contextual menu select Download.
• Click on the blue pencil icon or the assignment title.  The paper will open in the Feedback Studio.

In the Feedback Studio , click the Download button in the toolbar on the right-hand side of the screen.

Download pop-up window

From the menu that appears, click either:

• Current View to include the feedback in the downloaded file or,
• Original File to download a copy of the student’s work.

If Current View is selected, a PDF file will be downloaded to your computer. This will include the written feedback, comments and rubric contained in the online marked assignment. When viewing the PDF, feedback is listed at the end of the document.

Download All

If you wish to download more than one paper, you can do this from the Turnitin LTI Assignment Inbox.

a. Go to the top right-hand corner of the Assignment Inbox and click on Download All to reveal the menu with the download options.

b.  Check the specific students you would like to download the papers for.  The Download All button with change to Download Selected and offers the same download options.

The download options are:

• Original Files
• Standard PDFs
• GradeMark PDFs

Bulk Downloads

A message will appear informing that the papers will be put in a compressed (.zip) file. Click Ok.

Notifications tab

The downloads are accessed, when the process has completed, through the Turnitin Assignment Inbox Notification icon.

The red dot will appear and flash when the downloads are ready.

Download ZIP file

• Select the download you would like click on the down arrow to reveal the download details. The file will appear as a .ZIP file, click on the file name to download .
• If you no longer need any download, you can delete it using the ‘Trash Can’.
• Click the file link to download

You can then see all selected papers in the file. These can be opened, saved or printed as required.

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Using Turnitin Feedback Studio through Blackboard Learn

For additional help with Feedback Studio in Blackboard, see Turnitin’s Blackboard Basic manuals . For help with Blackboard Learn beyond Turnitin, see our  Blackboard Learn pages .

For Students

If your course’s instructor has set up a Turnitin Feedback Studio assignment through Blackboard, you should be able to access the assignment through your course site. It will be in one of the content areas on the upper left; your instructor should specify which one. You should see each assignment listed separately, with a button saying View/Complete . This button will allow you to submit your assignment, whether from your hard drive or from Google Drive.

For Faculty

The Turnitin Feedback Studio consists of individual assignments that you can create in your course site that you can use to provide direct feedback to student submissions.

Creating and Editing a Turnitin Assignment (Ultra)

Creating an Assignment

Editing an Assignment

Max grade : Set a point value for the assignment to allow a grade to be set by rubrics (if used) and be sent to the grade book. For example, if you set the max grade as 100, this is the highest grade your student can receive.

Start date : The start date is the date and time students can begin submitting to the assignment.

Due date : The due date is the date and time students’ papers are due for the assignment.

Feedback release date : The feedback release date is the date and time students can begin viewing the comments and grades you have left on their papers. Feedback can only be released after the due date.

Creating and Editing a Turnitin Assignment (Original)

• Once in the content section, select Build Content .

Navigating the Feedback Studio

You can navigate through papers submitted to an assignment by looking in the top right-hand corner of the navigation frame. Here, you will find arrows to move between papers and a dropdown list that allows you to chose from all papers that have been submitted so far.

Using the navigation arrows

Using the drop-down menu

• This drop-down list informs you of all of the papers that have been submitted to an assignment so far. It shows the student’s name on the left and the paper title on the right. Clicking on any of the submissions will change the Turnitin Feedback Studio to that paper.

The Assignment Inbox - Viewing Completed Assignments

Each assignment in a class has an assignment inbox. The assignment inbox contains any submissions that have been made by students or the instructor to the assignment.

• The top menu bar has notifications, a link to our support wizard, and an option to edit the   assignment settings.
• The search bar allows you to search through the students. The drop-down allows you to view your   group and group sets.
• Select   Download All   to download all the papers. Use the check boxes next to the papers to select papers, then   Download Selected   to download these papers. This button becomes active after the first submission has been made to the assignment.

The assignment inbox is a sorted list of columns containing information regarding submissions in an assignment. The assignment inbox can be organized by any of the criteria listed – for example, clicking on the column heading name of author will sort the contents of the assignment box by author last name from A to Z. Clicking the column heading again will sort it again by the reverse of the criteria, from Z to A.

The column headings in the assignment inbox are:

Author   – A column containing the names of any enrolled students and the names given for any non-enrolled instructor uploaded papers in the assignment.

Paper Title   – The title given for any paper submitted. If there is no submission for a user, this field will list “no submission”. Clicking on the title of a paper will open the paper in the Turnitin Feedback Studio viewer.

Paper ID   – The unique numeric ID number assigned to every submission made to Turnitin. This column contains a dash if no submission was made. The paper ID is also provided to students or instructors when submitting by file upload or copy and paste as part of the digital receipt.

Uploaded   – The date of a submission. Any dates shown in red indicate a late submission made after the due date and time of an assignment. The format is day-month-year. If no submission was made after the due date/time for a student, this column shows (late) in red. If the due date has not passed, students in the class with no submissions have a dash in this column.

Viewed   – This icon indicates whether the paper has been viewed by the student. If the eye has a strike through it, the paper has not been viewed.

Grade   – The grade column indicates GradeMark image availability. A blue pencil icon indicates that a paper is ready to be graded, but has not yet been graded. A gray pencil icon that no submission was made or that GradeMark digital assessment is not available for the class or account. Once a paper is graded, the point value given to the paper will replace the pencil icon in the grade column.

Similarity   – The Similarity column contains the Similarity Report icon. The icon contains a percentage indicating the overall similarity of the paper to information in the Turnitin repositories: 100% being ‘fully similar’, 0% indicating ‘no similarity’. The icon is rectangular and contains the percentage number and the corresponding color. If only a grayed out icon is available, the report is not ready. A dash in the report column indicates no submission or that no Similarity Report is generated based on assignment settings.

Options   – This menu will allow the instructor   to submit or resubmit on behalf of students, download the submission, or delete the submission.

Using the Thumbnail Sidebar

The thumbnail bar gives you a quick overview of the paper you are currently grading

• The thumbnail bar can be accessed by clicking on the black tab in the left-hand corner of the Turnitin Feedback Studio.

Locking the thumbnail bar will prevent you from being able to close it

• To close the thumbnail bar, unlock it by clicking on the locked padlock icon, then click the black tab that was originally used to open it.

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Additional Feedback Studio Features and Support

• Originality Check shows you how much of each paper’s text matches existing text in other papers or on the web.
• When you are viewing a paper, you can use GradeMark to grade it within Turnitin, including QuickMarks for frequently used comments.
• Originality Check and GradeMark are now integrated together in the new Feedback Studio interface. Click on a paper to view it in Feedback Studio.
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Turnitin: A Student Guide to Downloading Feedback

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After submitting work, it’s important that you make use of the feedback given to you by your tutors.

Step 1: Locate your assignment and feedback

You can view your provisional grades and Feedback (if given) from submitted Turnitin assignments by returning to the area in Blackboard where the assignment link is shown (i.e. wherever you submitted your assignment). The picture below shows the link to the Turnitin assignment.

Step 2: Navigating the Turnitin Assignment Dashboard

Once you click the assignment link you will be presented with this interface, explained below.

a. This gives a summary of the Assignment Instructions, Start Date, Due Date, Feedback Release date etc.

b. and c. These links allow you to view your submission along with feedback

d. This will display a similarity percentage (though this is usually hidden from students)

e. Upload another version of the assignment (if allowed and within the allotted time period)

f. Download the assignment

g. Download a PDF digital receipt of submission of assignment.

Step 3: Viewing the feedback

Once you click on b or c above, your assignment with marks and feedback will be opened in a new window. 

The provisional grade (or Mark) appears at the top right corner of the screen, typically showing a mark out of 100.

Feedback comments

The tutor may have added feedback comments directly to the pages in the form of ‘bubble’ comments. These appear as blue boxes, with either white text or a white speech bubble.

General comments

These may have been added to the piece of work and will be shown in the right-hand pane of the screen that you are viewing to see your work. General comments apply to the whole paper, as opposed to the comments added to particular parts of the paper. If your tutor has recorded a voice comment, this will be accessible from the same pane as the general comments. If a rubric has been used, it will also be accessible from this pane.

Downloading the document and feedback

You will be able to view feedback directly on this page, however, it is recommended to ‘download’ the assignment by clicking on ‘Download’ in the screenshot above and selecting ‘Current View’ (circled above).

Please note: Make sure you save it to a personal folder or external drive. Do not save any of your personal files to a desktop in a computer cluster.

Your downloaded file will be a PDF and show your original essay and any Feedback Studio report information and feedback attached to your paper. Both ‘bubble’ and general comments will be given at the end of your work, as shown below. If a rubric has been used, this will be shown at the end of the paper.

Things to keep in mind

• Marks are not always provided through this interface, as sometimes penalties need to be applied to some submissions before mark release. In these cases, marks will usually be released via the intranet system.
• Where marks are available, they are provisional and may be subject to change.
• Different assignments are marked in different ways; please always check to see if “general feedback” or a “rubric” is provided with the assignment, as sometimes feedback is provided via these tools.
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How to upload an assignment in turnitin.

• Visit the Bb course.
• Open the content area your instructor has specified (i.e. Assignments) so as to locate the assignment.
• Click on the assignment’s name link so  as to read the instructions provided and submit it.

The first time you enter Turnitin, your user account is activated so:

• The first webpage you see is the Turnitin User Agreement page.
• Click the “ I agree — continue” button. You will only see this page once.
• You are now in the Turnitin environment.

You can now see two tabs:  Assignment Dashboard and Summary .

In the Summary tab, there is information about the assignment. You can see the assignment title and Max Grade , Instructions , the Start, Due and Feedback Release dates for the submission. You can also see the  Additional settings (if resubmissions, Late submissions and Originality Reports are allowed).

In the Assignment Dashboard tab, you can see the active papers of this assignment and you can also submit new ones.

Submit a paper

• Click the “Upload” button so as to upload your paper.
• The Submit File window will popup asking for the submission title and file. Enter a title for your assignment and click ‘ Select a file to upload ‘ to upload the paper from your computer.
• You can also upload your paper with different options. In the second tab ‘ Text Input ‘ you may enter or paste the text of your submission  and click continue to submit.
• With the third tab ‘ Additional Options ‘  upload your paper from either Dropbox or Google Drive.

Note that for a single file upload the File Types allowed are : Text, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, Postscript, PDF, RTF, HTML, WordPerfect, Hangul, OpenOffice.

• After you upload your paper in either of these options, a Confirmation page will open, asking you to confirm that this is indeed your paper.
• Click “Accept Submission – Save” .

After the submission of the paper, you can see additional information such as :

• Resubmit : You can resubmit your paper and overwrite the previous one. Click on the Turnitin assignment’s name to enter the environment and resubmit by clicking the upwards arrow.
• Download : Download your paper by clicking the downwards arrow.
• Look at your paper: Open your paper in a new window and see the originality report by clicking its name.
• See originality Report : See the percentage of similarity.

Resubmit a paper

Keep in mind that the the Similarity Report will be generated immediately of the submitted assignment. After 3 resubmissions though, you will need to wait 24 hours for the Similarity Report to be generated.

After successfully uploading an assignment, you can upload another one, if your instructor has enabled re-submissions. Visit the Turnitin assignment and click on its name to enter the Turnitin environment. Then:

• A warning message will appear informing you that previously submitted assignments will be deleted. Press “Confirm” to continue.
• Upload the assignment using the instructions above.

Download a paper

In case you would like to download your paper just go into the Turnitin Assignment and click the down arrow to your right. The paper will will be downloaded in the form it was uploaded.

Digital Receipt

You can see the feedback that your instructor left by clicking on the paper title, then a new window will pop up previewing your paper.

For additional information, you can download the Turnitin Student Interface Manual by clicking the Turnitin image below.

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