Turnitin’s up and coming features
By Jessica Gramp, on 16 August 2012
Stay up to date with new features on the Turnitin Product Twitter page: http://twitter.com/turnitinproduct
Features in the pipeline for Turnitin include:
- An Instructor dashboard will soon be available via Moodle – this shows an activity stream, quick links and an overview of assignment submissions
- See a count of how many times each student has submitted to Turnitin
- Staff will soon be able to push only those assignments that have been graded to students, without having to show everyone their grades at one time
- Non-text based assignment submissions that don’t need to be checked for plagiarism will be possible in Turnitin to allow staff to use Grademark to provide feedback
- URL submissions will enable students to submit a website, YouTube video or portfolio link to Turnitin for marking
Available late August 2012:
- Students can retrieve digital receipts from Turnitin, so if the emailed receipt goes missing there is another way to access proof of when they submitted
Coming in January 2013:
- PeerMark integration with Moodle for peer assessment (Note: UCL doesn’t currently have a PeerMark license)
- iPad application for offline marking (Windows and Android devices to follow)
New technologies:
- Turnitin are working with technology that detects changes in the style of writing to flag areas of assignments that may have been ghost written
- Support for Arabic, and other right to left languages, is being developed
- Translated plagiarism detection, where Turnitin translates non-English documents into English and then compares this to work submitted by students in English, is also being developed
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