Turnitin Assignment feedback guide

You can record up to three minutes of feedback on each student assignment allowing you to personalise your feedback. In the Sounds Good JISC project, students remarked positively on receiving audio feedback commenting on the personal nature and level of detail provided (Rotheram 2009). Some students in this study did comment that they would like both audio and written feedback. A 2020 study (Wolstsencroft & de Main) in a UK higher-education institution found that student participation and engagement with feedback increased with audio feedback, with students remarking that hearing feedback made it feel more personalised (Knauf, 2015; Wolstencroft & de Main, 2020) and more relevant than just the mark. However, studies continue to show that students also like receiving written feedback, potentially in addition to audio feedback (Sarcona, Dirhan, and Davidson, 2020). 

Students cannot download feedback provided through Turnitin, it has to be reviewed online via the Turnitin Assignment activity in Moodle. 

• Focus on the quality of the feedback as opposed to the quality of the recording. Don’t feel like you have to correct small speaking errors by re-recording. You can correct these as you would do in conversation. Do avoid poor quality audio as this can deter from the quality of your feedback.
• Structure your feedback. Prepare a draft of the key points you would live to cover before you record.
• Try to stay positive. Even when providing developmental feedback try to end on a positive note.
• Speak clearly.
• Make explicit how the feedback can contribute to the student's development. 

1. Select the link to the Turnitin assignment to open the Submission Inbox.
2. Select the blue pencil icon alongside the student submission you want to grade. Feedback Studio will open.
3. From the Grading layer select the Feedback Summary icon.
4. Select the record icon from the Voice Comment section.
5. A settings pop-up may ask you for permission to allow Turnitin to access your computer's microphone. Select Allow. To avoid seeing this prompt the next time you use the voice comment recorder, select the Remember this decision check box.

   

6. Speak your feedback about the student's assignment. When you have finished select the stop button to stop recording.

   

7. To listen back to your recording before saving the feedback select the play button. Select the save button to save your feedback.

   

8. If you would like to delete the audio feedback, select the delete icon to discard the audio feedback.

   

Students need to open Feedback Summary sidebar when they are reviewing their paper in Feedback Studio to play the Voice Comment.

Knauf, H. (2015) Reading, listening and feeling: audio feedback as a component of an inclusive learning culture at universities [online] Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2015.1021664 (Accessed 23.8.2021)

Rotheram, B. (2009) Sounds good: Quicker, better assessment using audio feedback [online] Available from: https://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/reports/2009/soundsgoodfinalreport.aspx (Accessed 24.6.2021)

Sarcona, A, Dirhan, D, Davidson, P. (2020) An overview of audio and written feedback from students’ and instructors’ perspective [online] Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/09523987.2020.1744853 (Accessed 23.8.2021)

Wolstencroft, P, de Main, L. (2020) ‘Why didn’t you tell me that before?’ Engaging undergraduate students in feedback and feedforward within UK higher education [online] Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/0309877X.2020.1759517 (Accessed 23.8.2021)