The Feedback Release Date is the date that students will be able to view their marks and feedback in Turnitin. When using this workflow, feedback is only stored in Turnitin and not in Blackboard. The Feedback Release Date will need to be reached for students to see their feedback at all, even if marks are posted in Blackboard. In the setup section of this guidance, the DEO recommended setting the Feedback Release Date far into the future and then manually adjusting it to the desired date when all marking and feedback was completed.
The moment the Feedback Release Date has been reached, marks are also automatically posted on Blackboard.
- Open the appropriate Blackboard course and navigate to the submission point. This will normally be located in the Assessment, submission and feedback
- Once you have found the submission point, click on its title to enter Turnitin’s Assignment Inbox. This may take a few moments to load.
- Click on the cog icon in the top-right corner of the screen, taking you to the settings screen.
- Adjust the Feedback Release Date to the desired date and time (e.g., today’s date and the current time if you wish marks and feedback to be released immediately)
Info: All dates in Turnitin’s interface are in the US “Year, Month, Day” format. All times are in 24hr clock. You can adjust dates and times either through directly typing into the interface in the correct format, or by using the calendar and clock buttons (see picture below).
Click Submit.
Warning: In order to transfer marks to SITS, you will need to have mapped all of the submission points you have created in this assessment to the column provided by eVision. Guidance on how to do this can be found in the setup section of this document.
Warning: Lates and other penalty information cannot be extracted from Blackboard to SITS for a Turnitin submission point. Marks can be extracted, but penalty information will need to be applied manually within the system.
Warning: Only administrators with the Marks Extractor role in Blackboard can extract marks.
- Navigate to the Blackboard course you wish to extract grades from.
- Click on View course and institution tools under the Course tools header in the course’s menu bar.
- From the list of tools, select Marks extract to SITS. This will launch a program that links both Blackboard and SITS, but it can take a few moments to load.
- From the list, select the unit code and course name you want to extract by clicking on the box to the left of the name so it turns green and a tick appears.
- Click on Grade column approval and transfer.
- Select the assignment/column name you wish to extract, again clicking on the box to the left of the name.
- Click Grade approval and transfer. In the next screen you can either:
- Search for specific students you want to extract marks for by entering their details in to the search bar. Once you have found the student, select them by clicking on the box to the left of their details
- Click the box at the top of the list of students to select all of the students in the list with submissions
- Click on Extract grades.