Blackboard (Faculty) - Turnitin Assignments: Grading with a Turnitin Rubric

This document describes how to grade with Turnitin's rubric feature.

Open the Turnitin assignment inbox and access each student's submission in Turnitin's Feedback Studio.

Click the below to expand the menus for directions.

Access and Grade Student Submissions

Turnitin Feedback Studio is an online tool that is used for grading papers, presentations, and other student work. Work submitted through Turnitin can be marked up with Feedback Studio using the standard as well as customized grading marks. While Feedback Studio itself does not analyze or identify spelling, grammatical, or citation style errors, if e-rater has been enabled during the Turnitin assignment creation process, e-rater will analyze spelling and grammar.

Feedback Studio can be utilized within a Blackboard course. It does not have to be used in conjunction with the Turnitin originality reporting capability.

Instructors must first set up a Turnitin assignment before using Feedback Studio features. Once assignments have been submitted, papers can then be graded using Feedback Studio. See the Create a Turnitin Assignment knowledge base article for detailed instructions regarding how to set up a Turnitin assignment.

Go to the assignment link in the coursework/content area or folder. Click on the assignment link. The Turnitin Assignment Inbox will open.
Click the Grade button (pencil icon) in the toolbar at the top of the screen to access the Feedback Studio tool.
A new window with Feedback Studio will open.

Feedback Studio Tools

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.

Click on the title of the paper
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.

Inline Comments

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

Begin typing you comment

Quick Marks

Quick Marks are commonly used comments.

The "lightning bold" icon allows you to add a QuickMark.
Select the comment.
A window opens that allow you to add additional comments.

Comments

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

Click on the Comment icon. The comments window opens.
Type in your comment.

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Summary Comment

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

Rubric

If a Rubric has been attached to this paper, click on the Rubric tab.
Use the slides to add points to the grade.
Click the Apply to Grade button to grade the paper.

Similarity

Click on the Similarity 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.

Click on any of the groups to see the list of matches.
Each individual match will identity the source and percentage matched.
Click on the panel to see where this match occurs in the paper.

Filters and Settings

Click on the Filters button.
Select the filers to eliminate text such as bibliography or small matches.

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.

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

After opening one student's submission:

Click the blue rubric icon on the right side of the screen.
A simplified view of your rubric will appear in the rubric panel.
Grade from this simple view or open the Full Screen view to see the entire rubric with descriptive text.
To grade from this view:
1. Use your mouse to move the slider scales to the right, assigning values for each criterion.
2. Click the Apply to Grade button when finished.
To grade from the Full Screen view:
1. Click the Full Screen button in the top-right portion of the rubric panel, above the Apply to Grade button.
2. You might need to resize the full screen window to see the entire rubric.
3. Click the rubric squares to assign a value for each criterion. The squares will turn blue when selected.
4. Click the Apply to Grade button at the bottom of the window when finished.
After clicking Apply to Grade, the score from the rubric will appear above the student's paper in the top-right portion of the screen. If needed, you can override the rubric score by typing over the score. Your changes will automatically save.
Click the right-facing arrow next to the paper score to move to the next student paper in your assignment inbox.