Bloody turnitin

[moofolk]

Is it just me or is turnitin a bag of shite?!

It's so, painfully slow I can hardly get anything done. It takes forever just to scroll through the essays I'm marking and then goes way too far and I've lost my place.

I've started opening as a text-only similarity report as well to check text off the current screen but it's not ideal. Other than that does anyone have tips on dealing with this?!

Download the papers convert to word documents mark using text edit and a cut-and-pasted rubric (if used) and pop back up as an attachment.

It is indeed a bag of shite.

Download and mark using i-Annotate PDF, upload and and attach.

I annotate is an iPad app and its good because you can use your finger like a pen (or a stylus) and give good old fashioned red ticks!

Ooh naked thanks. I have LOADS of marking coming up, much longer papers than the winter ones and I can't imagine scrolling through to appendices etc if turnitin is anywhere near as slow and jerky to use as it was before.

Turnitin. Many happy hours spent hating it. Not fit for purpose. No advice, sorry. Just deep empathy.

I know some of my colleagues are just flatly refusing to use it due to how long it takes to do. So not bothering with any plagiarism checks.

I save the assignment as a word document on my computer, download it to turnitin, while it’s checking through the document I actually read and grade the assignment and then when finished go back to
Turnitin for the score. Seems to work ok. If the score is high I will open the report up and cast my eyes over it to see if large chunks are highlighted or if it’s the usual reference list/front sheet bumping the percentage up.

When I was a student at university, not that long ago, we students had to submit an electronic copy of our assignment (without reference list) to Turnitin, and a hard copy to the relevant lecturer.
If the Turnitin score was over a certain level, it was an automatic fail.
This placed the onus on students to work responsibly, and allowed tutors to get on with the relevant stuff.

I've started to get the similarity score and as soon as that comes in 'download current view' so I can read it on that. I grade & write feedback on a word doc and copy & paste back to turnitin. Can do a few at a time and have a number to aim to do in one sitting.

There is no speech-bubble feedback on the essay but I don't think my students read it anyway. Most of them don't even read the helpful constructive main feedback I write either.

That’s strange—I’ve had no problems with Turnitin being slow. I quite like it

It logs you out automatically after 2 hours. Not sure this is the setting my college has or a general one. Doesn't sound to bad, but if you have even 20 essays to mark it is crap. I now take notes with a ball point pen on paper before typing them up on turnitin.

There is no speech-bubble feedback

Can you use a rubric when marking?