Turnitin at Oxford

From Adam Marshall, WebLearn Service Manager: It is planned to upgrade WebLearn to version 2.8-ox3 on Tuesday 25 September 2012 7-9am. There will be no service during this period. In addition, the ‘Turnitin via WebLearn Assignments Tool’ service will be … Continue reading →

The next Turnitin user group meeting will be held on Friday 28th September 2012 from 2–4pm at IT Services (formerly OUCS) 13 Banbury Road. At the meeting we would like to learn about departmental and divisional policies on plagiarism procedures in order … Continue reading →

From iParadigms: NEW PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT COURSE Turnitin Academy Live is a new 10-session course that will lead instructors through a powerful pedagogy for “writing to learn.” Each one-hour online class explores practical methods for incorporating the use of Turnitin to … Continue reading →

The Turnitin Academy provides online demonstrations of the various aspects of the software suite. Here are the latest offerings: TURNITIN ACADEMY LIVE Implementation and Promotion for Administrators and Advocates | Aug 28 http://pages.turnitin.com/TAL2012Class1_register.html Getting Students Started with Turnitin | Sep … Continue reading →

Assignments 2 in WebLearn has improved Turnitin functionality with more options available. The integration also supports GradeMark, an electronic marking and feedback facility with the ability to record voice comments. A quick guide to using GradeMark can be found on the … Continue reading →

Some interesting observations from Jonathan Bailey.  

The WebLearn Assignments tool enables a tutor or lecturer to set up an ‘assignment’, allowing students to upload electronic essays. WebLearn keeps track of submissions and allows online or offline marking and commenting on the essay. The tool is integrated … Continue reading →

From iParadigms: Turnitin recently added the ability to add coloured highlights with comments to student papers in GradeMark. Instead of only a plain yellow highlighter, you can now choose from five colours—blue, green, yellow, pink, and purple After you highlight … Continue reading →

Turnitin have produced a white paper which gives a list of 10 Types of Plagiarism. Primarily a US publication, it introduces its content thus: “This white paper distills a study of thousands of plagiarized papers, providing examples of 10 distinct types of … Continue reading →

We enjoyed an excellent session last week on the use of Grademark which was presented here at OUCS by Garry Maguire, Senior Lecturer EAP and Oxford Brookes University Teaching Fellow. He has been using it for some time to provide feedback to over 400 … Continue reading →