Turnitin Assignment Similarity Checker – Test Your Text
December 2, 2024
(Estimated reading time: 2 min 30) At the University of Nottingham, like in other institutions, student assignment papers often undergo assessment through the Turnitin service. This post will cover frequently asked questions about Turnitin and the Test Your Text service available to students at the university. 1: What is a similarity report? Once you have …
Marking and Feedback in Turnitin
January 8, 2024
At this time of year, you are likely preparing to mark assessed work submitted over the winter break, or releasing marking that has been completed during this period. Below we outline some of the ways you can mark work and provide feedback using Turnitin. Accessing and marking a Turnitin submission Marking a Turnitin submission involves opening …
Students: How to Upload Turnitin and Moodle Assignments
December 18, 2023
Uploading Assignments Despite the upgrade to Moodle 4.1, the process for submitting a Moodle or Turnitin assignment remains unchanged. There are some slight changes to the iconography, so we have created this guidance just to ensure you are familiar with the submission process. Moodle Assignments The icon for Moodle assignments has changed from …
Assessments, Marking and Feedback in TurnItIn
December 3, 2023
In this post, we outline the process of creating Turnitin assessments within your Moodle site and some tips for approaching marking and feedback on Turnitin. Before you start using Turnitin for the first time, you should read the guidance below to ensure you are aware of best practice for using the features of Turnitin within …
Students: How to download Turnitin and Moodle assignment feedback
November 27, 2023
The University recommends that all students download their assignment feedback as soon as it’s available. As you advance in your academic journey and progress through different modules, access to your feedback from previous modules may be restricted. Therefore, it’s crucial to save and download your feedback now while it’s accessible, as we often receive requests …
Turnitin: what does the % similarity score really mean?
May 9, 2023
At the University of Nottingham, as elsewhere, student assignment papers are submitted to the Turnitin service. This produces a Similarity score and report but it doesn’t indicate plagiarism or a lack of academic integrity. What Turnitin does is check a student’s work against a database of previous submissions, web pages and journals. If there are …
Turnitin (& Moodle) assignment submission: checklist for students
April 20, 2023
We are often contacted by students worried about why their submissions to assignment dropboxes are not succeeding. Here are some of the most important things to check. Your document: please check Your filename must be no longer than 40 characters (you may get an error message if your filename is too long: it will be …
New resource: Digital Learning Frequently Asked Questions for staff
March 1, 2023
I’ve been asking around my colleagues in Learning Technology in order to find out the questions that have been most repeatedly asked over the years. We’ve then created a Digital Learning Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for Staff resource to help members of staff to find the answers quickly. Perhaps one of our top questions at …
Speed up your Turnitin marking with pre-populated or custom QuickMark sets: Advent Calendar #17
December 17, 2022
QuickMarks is a feature in Turnitin’s Feedback Studio marking interface that enables you to insert comment bubbles for common errors such as ‘Awk’ for awkward phrasing or ‘Improper citation’ for referencing errors. You can create a library of feedback that could be re-used on multiple occasions, for groups and cohorts of students across different assignments. …
Training and drop-in sessions including online marking and face-to-face drop-in
November 8, 2022
Learn something new, or come for a refresher – we’ve got lots of training courses on offer this autumn. They’re aimed to provide you with the support you need at the right time of year. As assessment season hots up (unlike the real season…) there’s new training in marking online. These have been organised with …
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