(Meeting/training will be recorded)
Lisa Ohlen Harris: writer, teacher, trainer for Turnitin
http://turnitin.com/en_us/home
Agenda:
- What is Turnitin?
- Turnitin Overview
- Resources
- Q&A
It is NOT a plagiarism detector, but instead an "originality checker." It will tell you how much of a paper matches up with work that is already accessible on the internet and other databases like papers that have already been submitted.
GradeMark facilitates interactive grading on the submitted document that matches up with uploaded rubrics. (Interfaces with Google Docs)
Can manually upload students to a Turnitin course or upload a student list (hopefully from Gradequick?)
Turnitin has its own grade book, calendar, discussion board, and library which interacts with the course. Student work will remain in their account (presumably to be used for portfolio-ing)
The Match Breakdown color-codes sources where information may have been taken from other places. It is up to the teacher to decide what to do with that information.
GradeMark has a grammar reading feature called "e-rater" that scans the paper for grammar mistakes. In the document, the teacher has control over which comments are visible to the student. The teacher can modify e-rater for FCAs.
GradeMark has a "comment bank" that is customizable for repeated errors. There are also customizable general comments that the teacher can write for the paper overall. And the teacher and student both have the ability to leave vocal comments.
The comment bank can be linked to the elements of a rubric. Rubrics can be created or uploaded. A favorite comment style is to write text directly, but these comments do not link to the rubric. (Rubric scoring can be automatically exported to an Excel document, but we will need to find another tutorial for that. GradeMark provides some rubrics.)
GradeMark can print, email, PDF graded papers for student review.
When creating a course and assignments, there are a lot of options for customizable grading. Students can also submit by uploading different kinds of documents like spreadsheets, power points, pdfs, word documents, etc.
PeerMark is the peer review method. (Lisa did not have a ton of experience with it, but will follow up.)
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We are still trying to figure out how to set up portfolios with Turnitin. How can we lock students out of their papers when they've submitted but still share with multiple teachers for the purpose of portfolio-ing?
To set up:
Give students the course ID number and the "join word" and have each student set up their own account.
(Turnitin has FAQs and turtorials for student account help)
