GradeMark for Computer

Access Control Panel

1. From your course’s Control Panel, expand the Course Tools section and click on Turnitin Assignments.

Locate Turnitin Assignment

2. Click on the name of the Turnitin Assignment for which you want to check submissions.

Turnitin Assignment Inbox

3.  You will be taken to the Assignment Inbox, where you should see a list of submissions made by students on the course.  Click on the pencil icon to open a paper in the GradeMark view.  If you have already entered a mark for a submission, this mark will be shown in place of the pencil icon.

Feedback Studio Marking Overview

4.  The selected paper will be opened in the GradeMark view.  The blue buttons in the side panel denote the online marking tools.

QuickMarks Button

Access Control Panel

1. From your course’s Control Panel, expand the Course Tools section and click on TurnitinUK Assignments.

Locate TurnitinUK Assignment

2. Click on the name of the Turnitin Assignment for which you want to mark submissions.

Turnitin Assignment Inbox

3.  You will be taken to the Assignment Inbox, where you should see a list of submissions made by students on the course.  Click on the pencil icon to open a paper in the GradeMark view.  If you have already entered a mark for a submission, this mark will be shown in place of the pencil icon.

Select Inline Comment

4.  Select Inline Comment as highlighted in the screenshot above.

Click on Paper

5.  Click on the location in the paper where you want to add the Inline Comment.

Type Inline Comment

6.  Type in your inline comment.  Once you have finished, use the mouse to click away from the comment.  You can edit your comment by clicking on the comment.

Access Control Panel

1. From your course’s Control Panel, expand the Course Tools section and click on TurnitinUK Assignments.

Locate TurnitinUK Assignment

2. Click on the name of the Turnitin Assignment for which you want to mark submissions.

Turnitin Assignment Inbox

3.  You will be taken to the Assignment Inbox, where you should see a list of submissions made by students on the course.  Click on the pencil icon to open a paper in the GradeMark view.  If you have already entered a mark for a submission, this mark will be shown in place of the pencil icon.

Select a QuickMark

4.  Using the right hand QuickMark menu, select the QuickMark you want to add to the paper you are marking.  You can either click the QuickMark once, or drag and drop the QuickMark to the relevant place in the paper.  Note you can also change the active QuickMark set by clicking on the button in the top left of this frame.

QuickMark

5.  The QuickMark will be dropped into your page but may not be where you want it to be, unless you used the drag and drop method in the previous step.

Move QuickMark

6.  Hover over the QuickMark so that it expands.  You can now drag and drop the QuickMark so that it is located in the desired area of the paper in the even that you did not drag and drop it to a specific place earlier.

Access Control Panel

1. From your course’s Control Panel, expand the Course Tools section and click on TurnitinUK Assignments.

Locate TurnitinUK Assignment

2. Click on the name of the Turnitin Assignment for which you want to mark submissions.

Turnitin Assignment Inbox

3.  You will be taken to the Assignment Inbox, where you should see a list of submissions made by students on the course.  Click on the pencil icon to open a paper in the GradeMark view.  If you have already entered a mark for a submission, this mark will be shown in place of the pencil icon.

Select Bubble Comment

4.  Before you add a comment, make sure that you have Bubble Comment selected in the top right area of the screen.

Click to add

5.  Click on the area of the document where you’d like to add your comment.

Enter Comment

6.  Using the text box, add your comment and then click on Save.  The comment box should disappear and be replaced by a small blue icon.

Edit Comment

7.  If you hover your mouse over the blue comment icon, the icon should expand to show the comment you have written, along with an edit button.  If you want to edit your comment you can do so by clicking on this button.

Save as Quickmark

8.  You can now edit your comment.  Note that there is also an option to save this comment as a new QuickMark.  You might wish to do this if the comment you have entered is one you intend to use regularly.  You can do this by clicking on Save as new QuickMark.

Save as Quickmark

9.  Give your new QuickMark a title and use the drop down menu to select the QuickMark set you wish to add your QuickMark to.  Once you have done this, click on Save.  Note that once you have saved a comment as a QuickMark you cannot edit it directly through the comment in the paper.

Access Control Panel

1. From your course’s Control Panel, expand the Course Tools section and click on TurnitinUK Assignments.

Locate TurnitinUK Assignment

2. Click on the name of the Turnitin Assignment to which you want to add a voice comment.

Turnitin Assignment Inbox

3.  You will be taken to the Assignment Inbox, where you should see a list of submissions made by students on the course.  Click on the pencil icon to open a paper in the GradeMark view.  If you have already entered a mark for a submission, this mark will be shown in place of the pencil icon.

View / Edit General Comments

4.  Click on the General Comments button in the bottom right hand corner of the screen, as highlighted in the screenshot above.

Record Comment

5.  Click on the microphone icon.

Allow Microphone Use

6.  Select Allow if you see a popup asking for permission to access your camera and microphone.  You may also wish to select Remember.  Click on Close.

Record Comment

7.  Record your comment.  You should be able to see a blue bar moving up and down when you speak.  Once you have recorded your comment (which can be a maximum of 3 minutes per submission), click on the blue stop button.

Check and Save

8.  Once you have recorded your comment, you will have an opportunity to play it back to yourself to make sure you are happy with it.  Once you are happy with the recording, click on the blue save icon.  If you are not happy, you can click on the dustbin icon to delete your recording and start again.

Saving Recording

9.  You may see each of the stages shown above whilst your recording is saving.  Longer recordings will take slightly longer to save than shorter recordings.  Once the blue bar shows Saved!, your recording has saved successfully.

Access Control Panel

1. From your course’s Control Panel, expand the Course Tools section and click on TurnitinUK Assignments.

Locate TurnitinUK Assignment

2. Click on the name of the Turnitin Assignment for which you want to check submissions.

Turnitin Assignment Inbox

3.  You will be taken to the Assignment Inbox, where you should see a list of submissions made by students on the course.  Click on the pencil icon to open a paper in the GradeMark view.  If you have already entered a mark for a submission, this mark will be shown in place of the pencil icon.

GradeMark Overview

4.  The selected paper will be opened in the GradeMark view.  The screenshot above explains the various elements of the GradeMark view on a PC.

Current QuickMark set

1. The current QuickMark set is shown in the grey bar at the top of the QuickMark area. This usually defaults to ‘Commonly Used’.

2. In the upper left corner of the QuickMark area you can click to switch to a different QuickMark set.

3. The list of QuickMarks in the currently selected set are displayed in the main QuickMark area.

Select a different QuickMark set

4.  Click in the top left corner to choose a different QuickMark set, for example Punctuation.

QuickMark set changed

5.  Once you have selected a different QuickMark set, the new set will be displayed, with the name being displayed at the top of the QuickMark area, and the QuickMarks themselves being displayed in the main QuickMark area.

Access Control Panel

1. From your course’s Control Panel, expand the Course Tools section and click on TurnitinUK Assignments.

Locate TurnitinUK Assignment

2. Click on the name of the Turnitin Assignment in question.

Turnitin Assignment Inbox

3. You will be taken to the Assignment Inbox, where you should see a list of submissions made by students on the course. Click on the pencil icon to open a paper in the GradeMark view. If you have already entered a mark for a submission, this mark will be shown in place of the pencil icon.

Highlight Text

4.  Click and drag over the text you wish to highlight.

Comment Button

5. Click on the Comment button on the right hand side of the screen.

Add Comment

6.  Type your comment into the text box.  Note that if you want to you can change the colour of the highlighter.  This can be useful to differentiate between different sections of text.  Once you have entered your comment and chosen the highlighter colour, click on Save in order to save your comment.

Comment Added

7.  You should now see a blue comment icon along with your highlighted text, signifying that the comment has been added to the paper.  If you hover over the comment icon it should expand, allowing you to edit the comment if you wish.

Add a QuickMark

8.  If you want to, you can select further text in order to add further feedback.  In the following example, rather than add a text comment, we will add a QuickMark.  Select the text you wish to highlight by clicking and dragging.

Choose QuickMark

9.  Select your desired QuickMark from the list on the right hand side of the screen.  The list of QuickMarks available will depend on which QuickMark set is currently selected.  You can choose a different QuickMark set using the button in the top left of the QuickMark frame.

QuickMark Added

10.  Your QuickMark comment has been added to the paper.

Edit Highlighter Colour

11.  You may wish to edit the colour of the highlighted text so as to differentiate it from other nearby text.  If you hover over the QuickMark, it should expand.  Click on the Edit button.

Choose Highlighter Colour

12.  Select the colour you wish to use for the highlighter, and click on Save.

QuickMark Added

13.  The highlight colour for the QuickMark has been changed.

Access Control Panel

1. From your course’s Control Panel, expand the Course Tools section and click on TurnitinUK Assignments.

Locate TurnitinUK Assignment

2. Click on the name of the relevant Turnitin Assignment.

Turnitin Assignment Inbox

3.  You will be taken to the Assignment Inbox, where you should see a list of submissions made by students on the course.  Click on the pencil icon to open a paper in the GradeMark view.  If you have already entered a mark for a submission, this mark will be shown in place of the pencil icon.

Add Mark

4.  Click into the score box in the top right hand corner of the screen.

Add Mark

5.  Type a number into the score box and then hit return.