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Turnitin’s up and coming features
Stay up to date with new features on the Turnitin Product Twitter page: http://twitter.com/turnitinproduct Features in the pipeline for Turnitin include: An Instructor dashboard will soon be available...
View ArticleSanta uses Grademark.
Have you ever wondered how Santa manages to grade the naughty and nice list so fast? Well the answer is technology! Just like many academic staff he uses Grademark, and very efficiently at that. The...
View ArticleTurntin UK User Group Summary
Turnitin is a text-matching service used to detect possible instances of plagiarism in written work. Many academics and students use the system at UCL via Moodle for submitting and grading assignments....
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Champions’ priorities? Video, assessment and feedback!
Over the last few weeks we have been surveying UCL’s E-learning Champions to find out what their priority interests were for the next year or so. We had a very high engagement, over 60 responses, which...
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Introducing Grade Anywhere – the new Turnitin iPad app
Our feature article from this month’s E-learning Champions’ Newsletter: The Turnitin iPad app called Grade Anywhere is now available from the Apple Store, which means for those who have iPads you can...
View ArticleTurnitin Post Date and Anonymous Marking
When using a Turnitin assignment with anonymous marking enabled it is important that the post-date is not changed once submissions are made. If it is moved either forward or backwards then the...
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Turnitin App Sync is an Overwrite
When using the Turnitin iPad app, what Turnitin refers to as ‘syncing’ doesn’t merge feedback and grades – it overwrites them for that entire submission inbox. Below are some examples of how this...
View ArticleRecent Turnitin Service Disruption
The TurnitinUK Service recently experienced a number of disruptions. This was due to errors outside of the control of UCL and affected all university across the Uk who use Turnitin. The problems...
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New assessment and feedback guides from Jisc
Four short guides on technology-enhanced approaches to assessment and feedback are now available from Jisc. Jisc – formerly JISC (!) – supports the use of ICT in learning, teaching, research and...
View ArticleTurnitin User Group – Feb 2014
Every six month Turnitin UK hold a user group meeting, which is usually attended by people like me who work in e-learning departments in a variety of UK universities. The most recent user group on 12...
View ArticleTurnitin Service Degradation – 7 April 2014
Turntin have issued the following notification: ‘Some users may have experienced some problems with Turnitin between 9:00 PM and 10:15 PM PST. System is normal now.’ This converts to 5:00 AM – 6:15 AM...
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We have received the following message from Turnitin and wished to share it with you, for your information: Scheduled Maintenance on May 3rd Turnitin service may be intermittently unavailable during a...
View Article22 April Turnitin Issues
Some users may have experienced some problems with Turnitin between 13:20 and 15:25 BST on the 22nd April 2014.
View ArticleTurnitin issues between 28-30 April 2014
There has been a prolonged period of problems with the Turnitin system, used at UCL for assignment submission, which lasted from 28 – 30 April 2014. These issues began at around 09:15 AM BST on Monday...
View ArticleTurnitin to End Support for Internet Explorer 8
In July 2014 Turnitin will end its support for Internet Explorer 8. In their message issuing they news Turnitin stated: ‘At Turnitin, we are continually improving the experience of providing rich...
View ArticleTurnitin Outage on 12 June 2014
Some users may have experienced problems with Turnitin between 15:01 and 16:25 on the 12 June 2014. These issues have now successfully been resolved. We apologise for the inconvenience caused by these...
View ArticleTurnitin problems on 12 June
Some users may have experienced problems with Turnitin between 15:00 and 16:25 PM on the 12 June 2014. These issues have now successfully been resolved. We apologise for the inconvenience caused by...
View Article5 Reasons to Reset your Course
Many of your will have seen notices come round reminding you that courses should be reset at the end of their period of use. This is ordinarily the end of the academic year, although this could vary...
View ArticleTurnitin Reset 22nd August 2014
In order to ensure we do not exceed our Turnitin license agreement, all assignments set up for the 2013-14 academic year will expire on the 22nd August 2014. A read only copy of these assignments is...
View ArticleTurnitin outage 26-27 July 2014
Turnitin was unavailable on 26th July from 5PM to 6AM 27th July whilst they carried out an upgrade to their infrastructure. All times are for the UK (BST), for other locations please convert:...
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