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Phew! What we did last summer
This time of year is always a busy one. New students, new modules, new systems, new services… it’s all new, upgraded and in full use. It barely gives anyone in the University time to think and digest...
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Turnitin and Moodle: dealing with large cohorts
The current Turnitin plugin that we are using to enable staff to create Turnitin dropboxes for submission of assignments is Moodle Direct. This performs best with less than 100-200 student...
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Turnitin and Moodle: dealing with large cohorts – An Update
Online assignment submission is increasingly becoming popular at the University, providing a convenient service for staff and students alike. The system we use to facilitate this process is called...
View ArticleHow Santa Grades Millions of Letters in Turnitin
Turnitin have published a festive explanation about how Father Christmas might use Turnitin to manage letters from children at Christmas. It’s all about how he could use it to accept submissions from...
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Top three requests from students about Moodle modules
This is the second semester that all students at the University of Nottingham have been using Moodle. Staff know Moodle has a huge variety of tools and functions, but from student feedback to Learning...
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Marking with Turnitin & Grademark
A recent Turnitin newsletter brought to our attention some useful resources on their website covering marking with Turnitin and Grademark. Tutorial: Using Marks and Comments Tutorial: Adding QuickMark...
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New version of Turnitin Moodle plugin
NOTE ADDED 23rd April: This post is NOT the place to ask for support and help. See the next post here for information on where to go for Help. This is also not where you submit assignments. To submit...
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Want to know more about using Turnitin in Moodle? Webinar 9 am (UK) Thursday...
If you’re facing up to marking and/or wanting to know more about using Turnitin within Moodle, this is the webinar to find out more. We’ll be looking at: How students use Turnitin The new interface (a...
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Advance warning of Turnitin maintenance
Turnitin have told us that they will be having a scheduled maintenance on Saturday, May 11, 2013 from 7-11AM U.S. Pacific Time (that’s 3-7pm in the UK and 10 pm to 2 am on Sunday in China and...
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Accounts with Turnitin at submit.ac.uk
When, as an editing teacher in Moodle, you first create a Turnitin assignment, you will receive an email from Turnitin asking you to register your account, and add a password to enable you to access...
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Turnitin originality report – Word counts and more
I was asked recently where to find the Word count for a Turnitin assignment, so I thought I’d show you the originality report Paper Info, as below. On the bottom left of the Originality Report...
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Turnitin disruption earlier this week
On Monday and Tuesday this week, Turnitin in the UK experienced two multi-hour service disruptions. These prevented users in this and many other universities from submitting, viewing and marking papers...
View ArticleElearning community, 2nd April: Dr Who and the Mysteries of Turnitin
The next e-Learning Community will be held on Wednesday, April 2nd at 9 am (UK time) 4 pm (UNNC and UNMC) **Note the change of time from our usual lunchtime in the UK.** We are having the session early...
View ArticleRecording available from E-learning community, 2nd April: Dr Who and the...
Our April e-Learning Community session on experiences of Turnitin was held on Wednesday, April 2nd at 9 am (UK time) and 4 pm (China and Malaysia) and was broadcast to all three campuses. Our speakers...
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Reasons to update your browser
There are all sorts of reasons to ensure you have the latest version of your browser of choice – or consider having a second browser on your desktop computer (the University provides Chrome at present...
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Enabling popups to use Turnitin
Turnitin have recently made a change to their End User Licence Agreement and require all staff and students using Turnitin to agree to Turnitin’s conditions before their submission can be accepted....
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Turnitin – What’s New?
Turnitin have a section on their website covering new features and news. Some of this year’s posts include: Evaluate Excel Excel files can now be submitted to Turnitin and the service will generate an...
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Marking online when a student has not submitted a physical assignment...
In Moodle assignments and within Turnitin you can add a mark and feedback even if students haven’t actually submitted anything. Why might you want to do this? There are many types of assessment that...
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T & L Seminar: Electronic management of coursework assessment: tools, process...
At our regular monthly Teaching and Learning Seminar (formerly E-learning Community) we will have in February two speakers – one from Social Sciences and once from Science – who will talk about their...
View ArticleMoodle-Turnitin upgrade Thursday 12th March at 5pm
There will be an upgrade to the Moodle-Turnitin plugin this Thursday 12th March at 5pm (UK time: 1 am Malaysia and China). The service will be at risk for approximately an hour. We expect minimal...
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