Minerva's Grademarking tool from Turnitin

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How to check work for originality / mark work online

Your starting point for online marking? A 'Turnitin' assignment. TurnitinUK has changed - its 'Grademark' tool allows you to mark work online - with originality testing as an important but more minor sideline.
Find 'Turnitin' via the module's control panel. Look there for 'tools' and then 'TurnitinUK assignments'.

Once you're using Turnitin to view an assignment's inbox, select a piece of student work, and a new page appears with Turnitin's 'Document viewer'. This is a tool that helps you inspect the work for originality, and to mark the work online. Here's a blog post (External link) from an academic on precisely how useful this can be.

Here's a note on how students can view feedback from marked work.

The document viewer gives you the tools to help you inspect the work's originality, and also provides you with the tools you need to mark the work online.

Mark student work online, a step by step guide:

The following assumes you've previously set up a 'TurnitinUK assignment', and your students have submitted work to it.
The first step is to open the students work in Turnitin's 'Document viewer'.

Log into Minerva, and select the module in question

Your starting point is Minerva's login screen.

Go to your module's list of assignments using its control panel

In the module's control panel (bottom left, below the menu), select 'Course Tools/TurnitinUK Assignments' - you'll see Minerva's list of any assignments you've set up for the module.

Select the assignment with which you'll be working

This will take you to TurnitinUK - you'll see the site's 'Spreadsheet-like' list of students - and any submitted work. At this stage it's sometimes useful to select 'Roster synch' (look to the middle right at the top of the table). This will fetch any student names for those who have not submitted work ...

Choose an assignment to mark or inspect: open it in Turnitin's 'Document viewer'

Open it from the table - select its title or originality report - note that if you select the 'File' link, this allows you to simply download a copy of the work - in this case you need to select the title, not the file itself.

Use Turnitin's 'Document Viewer'

Once you've used the instructions above to open the student's work open in Turnitin's 'Document viewer', you'll see the following, where you can:

• Inspect the originality score for the work, and any sources that Turnitin may have identified.
• Mark the work online.

Turnitin Document viewer: starting points

The screenshots here show the viewer window sized about as small as it will go.
In real life it's good to keep the viewer maximised.

The first time you start the viewer, you'll encounter a large blue pop-up window offering a four minute training video - by all means try the video and see if it helps - tick the 'Don't show this again' option when you've finished with it

Start the viewer, and you might need to select either 'Originality' or 'Grademark' before you can proceed.

Viewing Originality Reports

With 'Originality' selected at top left, you can check any sources identified by Turnitin's originality tools. For more information on sources, select the individual sections.

Rather than providing proof of originality, this is a tool to help you. The 'Originality score' here is simply available to help you decide if the work is, at worst, plagiarised. Quality work which has used sources well and attributed them correctly can still generate a 'Similarity index' of around 20% and will need inspection.

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Turnitin originality reports - print in colour

It might be required of you that you provide a colour copy of an originality report for a particular piece of work. Here's how:

• Go to Minerva, to the module, and to the assignment in question.
• In Turnitin's document viewer, view the originality report for the piece of work.
• Look to the bottom right of the document viewer window and select 'Text only report'.
  A different version of the originality report appears.
• Look to the top right of this second version, for a drop down box labelled 'Mode'.
  Set this to 'Quickview (classic) report.
• Look to the right of the same drop down box and use the 'Print' icon there

That will print a colour version of the originality report. Note that if you have a pdf printer such as cutePDF (Windows) you can choose to print a pdf file.

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The Grademark tool

When you mark work online, the following powers are useful:

Comment generally, on the work as a whole

First select the 'General comment' button - it's the grey one with the 'Speech bubble'. Before you can comment, you'll then need to select 'Edit':

Once that 'Edit' button's selected the comment box opens for business and you can type into it. To help meet University requirements for assessment and feedback, you can copy the following headings and paste them into the 'General comment' field.

You may then wish to provide content for the 'Assessment criteria for this assignment' section and copy that somewhere for reuse.

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Voice feedback

For this, you'll need a machine with a microphone and speakers - it's then easy to record up to 3 minutes of audio feedback and many students will find this very accessible and useful.

To use this, from the document viewer, look to the bottom right and select 'General comment' as if you were going to type something. If your machine has audio which includes a microphone, towards the top right, you'll then see a very simple recorder - press the button and you have up to three minutes to record audio feedback for the student's work.

How students receive marked work plus the feedback you've provided

When you've provided general feedback here, it's also made available to students via the grade book - in addition to them being able to view it within 'Turnitin'. See below for more:

Put your own comments into the body of the text of the work

Once you've selected 'Grademark' at top left - to put the window into 'Marking mode' - you can click within the student work - choose a place near to where you'd like the comment to appear - then type your comment into the box that appears and save it. (You can reopen the comment, change or delete it later too ...)

Use a library of specific comments ...

The document viewer provides a library of comments and corrections relating to common errors. The gradmarking 'Quickmark sets' give you just that. You've a choice: the tool comes with built in comments to address various common problems. You can also build a library of your own, to address subject specific issues.

Your starting point for this is to select the grey 'Quickmark toolset' button.

The 'Quickmark' tool set has a number of sets of comments to address common issues. To use a particular set, once you've selected the grey 'Quickmark toolset' button, make a set active by picking it from the dropdown list titled 'My Quickmarks' towards the top of the panel on the right of the document viewer window.

You can then use individual quickmark phrases:

• Select the text to which you intend the 'Quickmark' to apply and then click the appropriate quickmark
• Drag the appropriate 'Quickmark' to the students' work and drop it in place there.

Building your own set of comments

To build your own quickmark set, your starting point is the Quickmark manager - find it next to 'My quickmarks' towards the top of that right hand panel.

• Select the 'Quickmark manager'
• Identify '+' signs at the top of the column heads.
• Use these to add either new Quickmark sets - sets of comments - or to add comments to existing sets
• To add a new quickmark, select the appropriate + sign. If you create a comment on the paper and you would like to save that as a Quickmark, do so - explore the 'More options' button at the foot of your comment.
• When you make changes here, the Grademarking tool will make your customised set available to you across any other module

Entering the mark (Into Minerva's gradebook ...)

At the top right of the document viewer, there's a field into which you can enter the grade. Once entered there, it's available to the student immediately via Minerva's grade centre (unless the assignment is set to be anonymously marked).

Make it easy for your students to view feedback

Feedback being fundamental to learning, you can help students view feedback by including a link to their gradebook in your module menu - add a new menu item of type 'Tool link', and in the dropdown, browse to the gradebook. Students will then be able to follow the link, go to their gradebook and view their marks.

Mark a set of work

At the top right of the document viewer, you'll see the name of the author of the current work - the arrows to either side take you to the previous/next item of work. Select the name for the current piece of work, and you'll see a dropdown list containing links to submissions from the rest of the class.

Conclusion

If on-screen marking is for you, this allows you to mark a set of submitted work efficiently - especially when you've found out 'Which bits do what'. Once you use on-screen marking, many of your students will value the availability of the feedback you provide.

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For students: view your marks - and view the marked work, comments and feedback

'You', in the following, refers to 'You, the student'.

When you submit your work to Turnitin and it's marked - and the 'Post date' for the work is passed, use the link to the assignment to view the marked work - including comments and feedback. Here's a complete page on how to submit work and view feedback.

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