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Providing Feedback to Students using Feedback Studio

Turnitin integrates wonderfully with Moodle.

Feedback Studio is a valuable component provided by Turnitin. We will take a deeper look at the Feedback Studio, particularly at the tools that can be used to provide practical and usable feedback to students.

Inline comments can be placed directly in the space where the improvement is being suggested.

When you click on the document to insert a comment, another menu appears right where you clicked. That menu contains three options.

Click on the area where you would like to place the comment. A field appears in a pop-up modal window where you can choose the check box icon to insert a quick mark, the comment bubble to leave a comment that can be clicked on and revealed to the student. Finally, you can select the “T” and type text that is visible directly on the screen.

There is also an area where you can comment on the paper overall rather than specific points in the paper.

If typing out feedback isn’t working for you, try the voice comment feature. You need to allow your browser to use the microphone on your system, and then click record to leave a voice message for that student.

To reduce redundancy when providing feedback, create a rubric to grade the assessment and refer to the corresponding criterion in the rubric to ensure your comments target the appropriate level and address the correct criterion.

Turnitin Feedback Studio Rubric Example

Example of a rubric built in Feedback Studio when constructing the assignment.

It is possible to achieve this type of feedback without Turnitin, but you would need to use several programs and upload the feedback files that those programs produce, or copy and paste them. Turnitin and Feedback Studio enable you to complete all the same feedback tasks in one program.

The best part is that once you’re done grading, the grades and feedback automatically sync with your Moodle course—there’s no need to spend time inputting them again.


Resources

Six Ways to Reshape Your Feedback and Increase Student Engagement
https://www.turnitin.com/blog/six-ways-to-reshape-your-feedback-and-increase-student-engagement

Ten Quick Tips for Getting the Best Out of Feedback Studio
https://www.turnitin.com/blog/10-quick-tips-for-getting-the-best-out-of-feedback-studio

Strengthen digital literacy skills with source credibility, QuickMark sets
https://www.turnitin.ca/quickmarks/source-credibility-us-english

Copying an Exam from One Course Section to Another

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Providing Feedback Files When Grading Moodle Assignments.

1. Navigate to the assignment you are grading.

Click “View all submissions.”

2. Instead of going to each student and grading in the browser window, we will download all the submissions so we can make comments and provide feedback directly in their submission.

Click “Download all submissions.”

3. The submissions are downloaded in a Zip file; each is labelled with the student’s name in their document title.

Open the document and make comments where you have concerns with the submission. Type your comments in a different colour or easily distinguishable font from the submission fonts

.4. You can now provide a grade and upload the feedback file you just created.

Click “Grade” to perform these tasks.

5. Provide a numerical grade for the student. In this case the grade is out of 25.

6. Type general feedback in the “Feedback comments” field.

7. Now you can upload the file you commented in back to the student.

8. Click “Upload a file” and choose the file you created as the “Feedback file.”

9. Give your document a name in the “Save as” field.

Once done, click “Upload this file.”

10. Once you have input all the comments and grades, click “Save changes.”

11. Click “View all submissions”

12. You can see that “Student 11” received feedback comments, a numerical grade, and the attached uploaded feedback file.

How To Grade Assignments and Provide Feedback with inLine Comments

1. In your course, click on the assignment for which grading is required.

2. You can click “View all submissions ” to choose a specific student to grade.

3. Choose the student whom you wish to grade. Click “Grade”

4. You can see how many words were submitted and can click on the “+” icon to “View full”

5. In the “Feedback comments” area, the text submitted by the student is pulled into the “Feedback comments” field so that you can provide feedback inline.

6. Once you are done providing grades and comments for this submission, click “Save and Show Next” to go to the next student submission.

Transferring your Course Content

If you have a course previously taught in Moodle it is very easy to get your content moved over into a future/current semester. You are not required to create your online course component from scratch every semester, we can move your pervious course over to edit and revise as needed.

You will notice that when you login to the Moodle dashboard that you have access to the last semester from the drop down list available in the dashboard.

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Information About Booking Exams in the Testing Centre (for instructors)

If you are an instructor and want to use the Testing Centre to have your students write an exam, here is some information that you should know about how the Testing Centre operates as well as the information you will need to provide to us in the Teaching Centre so we can book your exam properly.

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This tutorial will show you how to release your exam marks to students. (this can also include any feedback given to students on the exam)

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Submitting Final Grades

You can submit your final grades directly from Moodle to the Bridge (Registrar’s Office). This is very convenient if you have a large class size.

In order to submit final grades, the instructor of record must be logged into the course.

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Emailing your Class in Moodle

Moodle currently does not have an internal email function associated with your course. 

To send an email to your entire class, you will have to use your University of Lethbridge email account.

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