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Create Turnitin Assignment guide

Turnitin is an online assessment management system that you can use to support student submission, provision of grades and feedback. It also includes a similarity check. This guide provides an overview of how to set up Turnitin assignments.

Create Rubric in Turnitin

Turnitin assignment settings

When creating and/or editing your Turnitin Assignment, scroll down to GradeMark Options and select Launch Rubric Manager.

GradeMark settings

  1. create new rubric selected as optionSelect Create new rubric option in the left-hand side corner.
  2. Select the scoring option from the Rubric Scoring toolbar at the bottom of the Rubric screen. You can select the rubric you'd like to create -  Standard, Qualitative or Custom.

Rubric settings

  1. name rubricEnter rubric name and select Enter on your keyboard.
  2. Select Criterion 1 to replace it with new name for the criterion.
  3. Enter the Criteria and their Descriptions in the row heading cells.
  4. Enter information in the column headings to describe the levels that can be achieved against each criterion.
  5. To create additional criterion/scales, select  the ‘+’ icon to the right of the Criteria/ Scale header.
  6. To delete a criterion/ scale, select the dustbin icon which appears in the column or row heading when you position your mouse over it.

Save the settings

  1. Once the rubric is complete select Save.
  2. Select Close to return to the Turnitin assignment.

Select the Rubric in GradeMark Options

  1. Open the Turnitin Assignment.
  2. Select Settings from the contextual navigation menu above the module name. This opens the assignment settings.
  3. Scroll to GradeMark Options.
  4. Select the Rubric from the Attach a rubric to this assignment drop-down menu. Newly created rubrics default to the bottom of the list. All other rubrics are displayed in alphabetical order.
  5. Select Save and return to module.

Screencast: Rubrics in Turnitin

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