Turnitin assignments

Turnitin assignments

Turnitin is an assignment marking system with an originality checker that helps students with academic writing and discourages plagiarism, use Turnitin if you want to …

  • use Originality Check: A plagiarism checking tool that produces a similarity report on a range of text based documents incl. MS Word, MS PowerPoint and PDF

  • use Turnitin Feedback Studio for online marking and digital annotation tools and Quickmarks

  • download annotated student submissions with feedback for external examiners

  • use PeerMark, a student peer review tool.

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Assessment Code of Practice advises

  • Using the format: Coursework # Title (##%) for your assignment title e.g. ‘Coursework 1 Post-modernist painters Essay (40%)’. This will help you and your students locate the assessment and make it clear how the student’s final grade is calculated. 

  • Students' compliance with the student declaration at the point of submission, the declaration can be found in the Learning Object Repository

  • that the release of marks should be accompanied by the following statement:

    “Marks provided on Blackboard Ultra are subject to ratification by the Board of Examiners and may be subject to change. Please note that as these marks are provisional, they do not necessarily include any penalties applied for academic misconduct.”

  • The declaration and disclaimer are included in the 25/26 Blackboard module template.

  • Set up separate dropboxes for EC1s and resits

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Useful Links

Centre for Digital Learning Enhancement
ulster.ac.uk/learningengancement/cdle