Turnitin (LTI) (Ultra): 4.3: Marking and feedback tools

In Turnitin’s Feedback studio, there are several options for marking and interpreting student work.

• Click the Layers button to choose between activating the Grading layer, the Similarity layer, or both. The Grading layer will show all mark-up that you (or another) have added to the work. The Similarity layer will show all of the comparisons made and areas of concern for review. There’s more information on interpreting Similarity and AI reports below.
  • All of the interactive tools for the marking layer selectable from the menu are highlighted in blue. 
  • All of the interactive tools for the similarity layer are highlighted in red.
• There are additional tools in grey.
• The AI detection score is displayed in a black box (where one is available).

1. QuickMarks: QuickMarks are pre-written comments that you can use between assignments. Some can be personal to you as a marker, whilst others are more generic and available across the institution (such as “Academic Integrity”). You can have several sets of QuickMarks and can choose between them when marking.
   1. Click on the QuickMarks icon to select between sets of QuickMarks or access the interface to create a new set. If you want to create a new set, click first on the QuickMarks button and then on the cog icon within the new menu.
   2. To use a QuickMark whilst marking:
      1. Right-click anywhere within the student’s submitted work and select the QuickMarks icon from the context menu that appears.
      2. A list of QuickMarks from the currently selected set will appear. You can either:
         1. Scroll through and choose the QuickMark you’d like to deploy.
         2. Change to another set by clicking on the dropdown arrow in the top box.
         3. Search through all available QuickMarks for what you’d like to find by entering a search term of phrase into the search box.
   3. Once you have found the QuickMark you’d like to deploy, click on it and it will be placed into the student’s work. You can then:
      1. Add additional comments to the QuickMark by clicking on it and writing in the Add comment
      2. Move the QuickMark to a different location in the work by clicking and dragging it to where you want it placed.
2. Feedback Summary: This is the location for overarching feedback to the learner. You can provide this feedback in either a textual or audio format. To access the Feedback Summary interface, click on the Feedback Summary button.
   1. To add textual feedback, click into the Text Comment box and write the text you wish to add. There are some basic formatting options (bold text, italics, underline) and the option to add hyperlinks. You should be cautious about copy-pasting text from other sources into this box as formatting may be lost.
   2. To add audio feedback, click on the Record button under Voice Comment. This is limited to 3 mins in length. If you want to stop the pause the recording at any time, hit the Pause button (note, this will only appear once recording has begun). Once you have finished the recording, click the Stop button. This will then be replaced by a Save button, which you should also click. If you wish to listen to your recording, click the Play button. If you wish to delete your recording, click the bin icon.
3. Rubric/Form: If you are marking using a Turnitin Rubric or Grading Form, you can access this by clicking the Rubric/Form button. You can only mark using a rubric or grading form if one was attached to the submission point when it was first setup. For more information on rubrics and grading forms, please refer to Turnitin’s own guidance. If you would like help making a rubric or grading form, please contact the DEO.
4. Adding comments: To add comments to a student’s submission, left-click in the document where you would like to add a comment to bring up the context menu and then select the Comment icon (which looks like a speech bubble). This will place a speech bubble icon in the text and open a text-entry box. Add the comment you would like to make and then click outside of the box to close it. You can reopen and continue to edit it at any time by clicking on it again. If you’d like to delete the comment, click on the bin icon within the text box. You can move comments around within the document by clicking and dragging them.
5. Adding inline text: if you would like to add inline text to the student’s work, click on the work where you would like to add text and select the Inline option from the context menu, which looks like the letter “T”. Type the text you would like to add and then click outside of the text box to finish. You can edit inline text by clicking on it. You can delete inline text by hovering your mouse over it and then clicking on the bin icon that appears above it. You can move inline text around within the document by clicking and dragging it.

Warning:Turnitin similarity and AI-writing reports are indicative and require review and interpretation. Encountering similarity, flagged content, or material suspected to be AI-generated does not automatically evidence academic misconduct without interpretation. Initial marks should be provided based on intellectual content with any concerns around academic misconduct escalated through designated channels in your school.

1. Flags: flags highlight areas in the submitted text that may suggest content has been copy-pasted into place or that attempts have been made to bypass similarity checking. For example, there may be hidden quotation marks in the text, that obscure the volume of quoted material. The number of flags that the document has will be displayed in the flags button. Click on the Flags button to review any flagged content.
2. Match overview: The match overview displays all of the content that has been matched to other content in Turnitin’s various databases. The percentage of matched content is displayed in the Match Overview button. Click on the Match Overview button to review each match.
3. All sources: The all sources display shows all sources that were matched in the document as a list, allowing you to quickly jump from one matched source to the next when reviewing the document. Click on the All sources button to access this interface.
4. Filters and Settings: The filters and settings interface allows you to adjust what is and is not included in the similarity report and adjust the way the information is displayed. To access this interface, click the Filters and Settings button.
   1. Toggle Exclude Quotes to change whether the similarity report ignores materials included in quotation marks.
   2. Toggle Exclude bibliography to change whether the similarity report ignores materials included in bibliographies.
   3. Under Exclude sources that are less than, you can designate a specified word length or overall percentage of materials by volume that should be ignored. Alternatively, you can toggle Don’t exclude by size to include sources of any size.
   4. Multi-Color Highlighting: if you find the report’s use of multi-colour highlights hard to interpret, you can switch that off here.
5. Excluded Sources: you can review any sources that have been set to be excluded from this report by clicking on the Excluded Sources button.
6. AI Writing Score: The AI writing score is displayed in the black box at the bottom of the page. It gives an estimate of the percentage of AI written content within the submitted work, limited by its detection methods and the AI content it can detect. You can review this score in more detail by clicking on the AI Writing Detection button.

1. Download: you can download a selection of information from the submission by clicking on the Download button. This will bring up the following options:
   1. Current View: this will download a version of the document in PDF format, inclusive of whichever layers you currently have active.
   2. Digital Receipt: this will download a copy of the digital receipt for the submission in PDF format.
   3. Originally Submitted File: this will download a copy of the submission in whatever format it was originally submitted.
2. Submission Information: Click the submission information button to review general information about the submission, including the date and time it was submitted, when it was last given a mark, and an estimated wordcount.