When assignments in MyFIRE have Turnitin enabled,
instructors can grade and leave feedback within the Turnitin tool. The grade in
Turnitin can be connected to the MyFIRE submission to keep scores congruent
between Turnitin and the MyFIRE assignment. This tutorial demonstrates how to
grade and provide feedback within Turnitin.
Note: If assessing through a rubric, it is recommended to
connect the rubric to the assignment in the course in MyFIRE and not through
Turnitin.
1. Within your course, select the Instructor Tools
tab at the top of the page.
2. Select Course Admin in the drop-down menu.
3. When the page refreshes, locate and select Assignments.
4. When the page loads, a list of the assignments
that have been created in the course will appear. Select the desired
assignment. From this page, instructors
are able to view if there are new submissions from students, the number of
students who have completed the assignments, the number of assignments
evaluated, the number of assignments where the feedback has been published, and
the assignment due date if added. Note: Look for the binocular symbol to ensure
that the assignment you are grading has Turnitin enabled.
5. When the page refreshes, a list of the students
that have submitted the assignment will appear. Locate the student that you
would like to assess.
6. Select the Turnitin Similarity percentage bar to
the right of the student’s file to access the Turnitin Feedback Studio.
a. If there is an inbox icon where the similarity
percentage bar normally appears, then the student’s submission has not been
submitted to Turnitin, even though the submission has been submitted in MyFIRE.
b. To push the student’s submission into Turnitin,
select the inbox icon. The Turnitin similarity will then show In progress. The
upload may take a little time, and you may need to refresh your screen to
confirm if the submission has been successfully uploaded to Turnitin. Once
successful, the similarity percentage bar will appear.
c. If there is a triangle icon next to the inbox
icon, select the triangle icon to view the message from Turntin as to why the
student’s submission has not been uploaded to Turnitin.
7. After selecting the similarity percentage bar, a
new page will open to the TurnItIn Feedback Studio and the student’s paper will
be visible. The similarity report will highlight areas in the paper that have a
similar match to another source. A similarity match does not guarantee that the
student has plagiarized. Review each similarity match to determine if the
student plagiarized. Utilize the navigation bars to access the similarity match
report, assign a grade to the assignment, or provide electronic feedback to the
student. Note: The Turnitin Feedback Studio exists outside of the MyFIRE
platform. Therefore, MyFIRE will not register that you are still active in the
platform.
8. Instructors can complete the following tasks in
the Turnitin Feedback Studio:
a. Select the black active layers button on the
right-side navigation bar to turn the grading & similarity layers on and
off.
b. Use the blue buttons on the right-side
navigation bar to provide electronic feedback.
i. The QuickMarks option provides a list of comment
bubbles that are for common usage errors. Drag and drop each abbreviated
comment to the correlating sentence in the assignment.
1. Once the quickmark has been added to a paper, it
will create a comment bubble that students can select for more information
about their error, as well as suggestions as for how to revise the error.
ii. To provide a feedback summary, select the paper
and pen icon to the right of the screen.
1. Within the feedback summary area, record audio
feedback by selecting the circle record button, or leave a written response by
typing inside the text box. Text feedback is 5000 characters or less. Voice
comments can be recorded up to 3 minutes. Note: Any feedback provided through
these options will not be imported or shown in MyFIRE. Students will need to
access the Turnitin Feedback student to review the feedback.
iii. Rubrics: SEU & ID&T recommends that
rubrics be attached to the assignment through the Evaluation & Feedback
section within the assignment settings in MyFIRE instead of attaching rubrics
in Turnitin. Attaching rubrics directly in MyFIRE will allow students to view
the rubric prior to attempting the assessment and allow SEU to retain the
assessment data.
c. Use the red layers on the right-side navigation
bar to view and interpret the similarity report.
i. Flags for Review - This option allows
instructors to view if there is hidden text within the assignment
1. Hidden Text - When students are cheating, hidden
text is purposely added to a student’s paper to inflate the word count. Hidden
text is typically white characters to blend into the background. To verify if
the Hidden Text report is correct and within the students’ papers, instructors
can download the paper, highlight the whole paper, and change the color of the
text to not be black. Any other visible color will work. If there is hidden
text, you may notice random symbols or characters that are out of place within
the text. Note: The availability of
hidden text does not guarantee that students are cheating. We recommend reviewing the submission source (such as a form or content from an external
site where the student was not aware of the hidden text) and submission format.
If necessary, discuss the text with the student.
2. Replace Characters - This occurs when students
replace English letters with similar-looking letters from another alphabet to
throw off the similarity match. This feature in Turnitin will provide the
language type of the replaced character(s).
ii. Matched Overview - When the match overview is
selected from the side panel on the right side of the page, it will show a list
of sources that match portions of the student’s paper.
1. Select a matched source to view the location in
the student’s paper that matches the source.
2. When a matched source is selected, an additional
option may appear to view additional matches from the same source. Select the
left and right arrows to navigate and review the additional sources within the
student’s paper.
3. Also, when a matched source is selected, a
pop-up window will appear. Select the title of the institution to request a
copy of the source submission.
a. If you were the instructor of the course with
the matched source, by selecting the institution’s title you will be redirected
to the source submission in a new browser tab.
4. A new page will appear. Select 'send a request to
view this paper' to gain permission from the course’s instructor to view the
source submission. Note: In order to receive a copy of the matched paper, the
instructor of the source submission must approve the request. If the request
was not approved, you will not hear back regarding your request.
iii. All Sources - To drill down further into the
report and gain more insight into the matched sources, select the All Sources
option.
1. Select on a source in the right panel to
navigate to the text found in the student’s paper where the source was used.
2. If there is a matched source that is a concern
and not available within the similarity report, instructors can still request a
copy of the matched source by selecting the source.
a. A new page will appear. Select 'send a request to
view this paper' to gain permission from the course’s instructor to view the
source submission.
iv. Filters & Settings - Source matches may be
excluded, either in the settings of the assignment so that the exclusions are
executed for all papers submitted for an assignment, or after the report has
been generated for individual papers. To exclude sources from the similarity
report, select the filters and settings option in the similarity layer. You can
exclude sources that are quoted, exclude the entire bibliography, or exclude
sources based on size.
1. Exclude Quotes/Bibliography: To exclude all
quotes and/or the bibliography, mark the appropriate checkbox(es), and then
select apply changes at the bottom of the panel.
2. Exclude sources that are less than: To exclude
sources based on size, select the appropriate radial button, then enter the
number of words/percentage in the corresponding field. Then select apply
changes. After changes are applied, the Feedback Studio will automatically
navigate to the Match Overview and show the results of the exclusion. To
generate a new report, select Filters and Settings and then select New Report.
The new report may take a few moments to refresh. Note: Exclusions are strictly
less than the amount entered in the text field. For example, if 2 is entered in
the % field, then all sources less than 2% (that is, equal to 1% since source
matches are rounded to the nearest whole percent) will be excluded. Two percent
matches will not be excluded in this case. Consider the following when
you are excluding sources based on size. The percentage or number of words that
you choose to exclude should be determined while considering the overall size
of the paper. For a ten-page paper, excluding a 10% match excludes one whole
page and excluding a 5% match excludes half of a page, a relatively large
exclusion. To decide on exclusion by number of words, review the word count of
the paper. A small exclusion, perhaps 7 words can help produce a similarity
score with a small buffer for students.
3. To cancel an exclusion, select the Filter and
Settings button and either unmark an exclusion checkbox or select Don’t exclude
by size. Then select apply changes.
4. Individual Exclusions: To exclude individual
sources, select the All Sources button. Select Exclude Sources at the bottom of
the right-hand panel. Notice that the source bullets change to checkboxes. Mark
the boxes next to the sources you wish to exclude. Select Exclude to apply your
changes or cancel to keep the original report.
v. Excluded Sources - This option shows the sources
that have been excluded from the similarity report.
d. Download - The download option allows the paper
to be downloaded in three different ways: the current view of the paper
(includes markups and score), the digital receipt of the paper, and the
originally submitted file.
e. Submission Information - The submission
information option opens a pop-up window on the screen, showing all of the
information Turnitin has on the paper, such as its submission date, last graded
date, and the word count. The Submission Info box enables you to keep track of
the number of submissions made by a student. To allow more than one submission,
you must opt to allow resubmissions by selecting immediately (can overwrite
reports until due date) for a Similarity Report generation in your assignment
settings. The submission ID and date will change for each new submission made
by the student.
9. If desired, leave feedback for the student in the
paper and/or enter a score at the top of the page in the score field. Note: If
the assignment requires the student to be assessed through a rubric, navigate
back to the student’s submission in MyFIRE, and select the rubric under the
Evaluation and Feedback section. If a score is left in both the rubric and in
Turnitin, then the rubric score will override the Turnitin score. If directions
are needed for assessing a student through a rubric, please refer to the How to
Grade an Assignment Using a Rubric tutorial.
10. The
score that was entered in Turnitin will then appear in the Turnitin Grademark
score field.
a. If the score does not appear for the Turnitin
Grademark, select the refresh icon to refresh the score for each student.
11. If
you would like to use the Turnitin Grademark score for the official grade,
select the Use this Grade link. Once selected, the Turnitin score will transfer
to the assignment overall grade field.
12. Next,
provide feedback to the student in the overall feedback textbox. For further
instructions on utilizing the editor textbox, please refer to the How to use
the MyFIRE Editor tutorial.
a. Then if desired, choose to either (A) upload a
file, (B) record a 1-minute audio message, or (C) record up to a 30-minute
video message to the student to provide additional feedback.
13. Once
done assessing the student, select Publish at the bottom of the page. Note:
Once the grade is published or updated, students will receive an instant
notification to their SEU email account that their assignment has been graded.
a. If desiring to publish all of the student scores
at once or to finish grading at a later time, then select Save Draft. If
needed, refer to the tutorial on how to manually publish multiple assignment
scores at one time.
14. If
you would like to grade the next student’s submission for the assignment,
select the left and right arrows in the top right corner of the screen to
continue to the next student’s submission.
15. If
you want to return to the assignment submission view for the entire class,
select the back to submissions link in the top left corner of the screen.