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Turnitin GradeMark
FHSCE
experiences over
academic year
2011/2012
What is Turnitin
GradeMark?
 Paperless
submission
 Paperless
grading
 24/7
access from a web
browser
 Text

matching
Originality Reporting
 Facilities
for general
assignment comments
feedback
 Quick
Mark comments
 Grading
Rubrics
 Feb
Project Team & Pre
Pilots
2011
 Small working group –
Alan Turner, Dr Chris
Thurston, Dr James
Trueman, Sally Goldspink,
George Evangelinos, Sue
Kersey, Rae Smyth, Liz
Dobson-McKittrick (SU),
Steve Wilson (ALT).
 Summer 2011
 8 ‘pre-pilots’ being
undertaken, sum 163
students.
 In
FHSCE: The Project –
September 2011/2012
September 2011 all DL
and all first year UG/PG
 63 modules, across the
faculty with 3,441
submissions of work via
turnitin GradeMark
 Rest of university faculty
highlighted pathways
 Presentations, practice
documents, portfolios and
exams etc are exclude
FHSCE: The Project –
September 2012/2013
 Following
continued
evaluation and reviews
 By the end of academic year
all text based assignments
throughout the faculty .
GradeMark
Administration – High
Level
Module Administrators (MA’s) to have
access to Module Leader (ML) Turnitin
Password
Enables creation of the Master Class,
marking sections and assignment.

ML to MA’s specific information to set
up the class and assignment form
includes:
Module Code
Module Name
Occurrence code (Site)
Assignment Title
Start Date
Submission Date
Post Date
Marker(s)
Marker(s) Extensions & Resubs
External Moderators(s)
Types of classes
 All
classes are Master Classes
A
module
 1 marker (ML)/moderator
B
module
 X markers (ML)/moderator
C
module
 X markers/ moderator (M/L)
Classes are set up to enable
anonymous marking and a class
end date one year from the
creation date.
 Additionally submissions will be
allowed AFTER the due date.

GradeMark
Administration – High
Level
The above will allow for
Extensions and Resubmissions
to be managed within Tii
GradeMark
 Student information drawn from
SITs (Mav) and exported into
Excel, information separated by
the number of markers.
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GradeMark
Administration – High
Level
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Students uploaded into the
Turnitin GradeMark class and
they will receive the enrolment
information to their Anglia e-mail
account.
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Initial
class and
assignment set up
complete
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Extensions
GradeMark
Administration – High
Level
Due date +1 working day MA run
report from SAL 2 in SITs
identifying those students granted
an extension.
 Minimum extension to be granted
by Student Advisor 2-5 days (to
be agreed).
If extension is within 15 working
days of the marking and
assessment period – NO action
as students can submit after the
due date.
If extension is over 15 days a new
section is added to the original
Master class called ‘Extension’ –
appropriate students added to this
section and e-mailed.
Normal 20 day ruling applies for
assessment and feedback
availability.
GradeMark - Student
Results Collection
Resubmissions
GradeMark
Administration – High
Level

DAP + 5 working days the MA runs
a report from SSR in SITs to retrieve
a list of students with outstanding resubmissions.
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A new section will be created in the
Master class called Re-Submission.

Normal 20 day ruling applies for
assessment and feedback
availability.
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Students access feedback as
previously discussed
GradeMark – External
Moderators
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Part A of Moderation form received
by MA, this is prompt to start
external moderation process.
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Moderators would have an @ anglia
e-mail account, set up in advance.
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MA’s will amend the master class
sections with the appropriate
moderator (s).
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This enables the moderator to
access the assignments – the above
process will invite them to the class
via and e-mail.
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MA’s will e-mail Moderator (s) and
attach external examiner comment
form, module guide and Moderation
form parts A&B.
GradeMark – External
Moderators

The moderator will apply the Anglia
Ruskin University algorithm –
essentially then will have a free
hand to check what they want –
these students will NOT be
anonymised.

Moderator returns, via e-mail the
completed moderator report etc to
the MA.

MA changes section in Master class
to the ML, this restricts the external
having further access.
Evaluation
Date 6/2/12
 Number of student undertaking survey
148
 Number of academic staff undertaking
survey 36
 Number of admin staff undertaking
survey 6
 Number of FSA undertaking survey 4
 83% students felt that Turnitin
GradeMark enhance their experience
 88% of students were able to up load
work before the final submission
 72% found the process of submission
easy
 83% preferred e-submission over
paper submission

 QuickMarks
Present and Future
annotation.
 DSE.
 Screen
size & ergonomics.
 Home
working, internet
speed etc.
 Mark
 VLE
Sheets and Fetch
integration.
 VLE integration.
 E- portfolios piloted
 QMP for exams
 Piloting partners