Blackboard (Faculty) - Turnitin Assignments: Feedback Studio Tools

This document provides an overview of Feedback Studio tools. (Formerly GradeMark)

Feedback Studio incorporates the originality checker and the grading tools in one screen. When entering a student's paper, Feedback Studio will default to the Instructor Comment panel, located in blue on the right side of the screen. The red panel are the tools for the Originality checker. 

  1. Click on the title of the paper

    paper title is hyperlinked
  2. When the Student Submission page opens, click on the title of the paper under the student's name. 

          students name and paper's name

Feedback

The Feedback tab will open first. 

Feedback tab

Inline Comments

  1. To type directly on the paper, click anywhere on the paper. The Inline Comments icon will appear.

    Inline comments


    Begin typing you comment

    Inline commment "Check your citation on this sentence."

Quick Marks


Quick Marks are commonly used comments.

  1. The "lightning bold" icon allows you to add a QuickMark.

    quick mark Icon

  2. Select the comment.

    list of quick marks

  3.  A window opens that allow you to add additional comments.

    comment along with quick mark


Comments

The "Talk box" allow you to add a written comment to the page. 

  1. Click on the Comment icon. The comments window opens.

    comment icon

  2. Type in your comment.

    comment in textbox.

Summary Comment

  1. Click on Summary in the Feedback box. Type in a summary of your comments on the paper. 

    summary text box

Rubric

  1. If a Rubric has been attached to this paper, click on the Rubric tab. 

    rubric


  2. Use the slides to add points to the grade. 

    sliders indicating the ranking of grades
  3. Click the Apply to Grade button to grade the paper. 

Similarity

  1. Click on  the Similarity tab. 

    Similarty tab

Match Overview

The Similarity Report will highlight sources that are not quoted, missing quotation, mission citations, and sources that have been cited and quoted for your review. 

  1. Click on any of the groups to see the list of matches. 

    Similarity matches

  2. Each individual match will identity the source and percentage matched. 

    citation

  3. Click on the panel to see where this match occurs in the paper. 

    citation in paper

    Filters and Settings

    1. Click on the Filters button. 

      filter

    2. Select the filers to eliminate text such as bibliography or small matches. 

      filter selections

    Flags

    Flags indicate suspicious text such as text altered to blend into the white background. This can artificially inflate the word count or break up text that has been copied from another source. 

    1. Click on the Flags tab.

      flag

    2. Click on the flag box on the right and the hidden text will be highlighted. 

      image of flagged text



    Keywords:
    blackboard, black board, bb, Turnitin, Turn it in, Feedback, feeedback studio, Grademark, grademark, grade mark, grade, grading, grades, paper, papers, assignment, assignments, voice comments, 
    Doc ID:
    62098
    Owned by:
    Center I. in Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
    Created:
    2016-03-22
    Updated:
    2025-08-13
    Sites:
    Southern Illinois University Edwardsville