Sakai: Assignments
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Assignments
The Assignments tool provides the following for instructors and students:
- Instructors can easily collect student papers or files (such as documents and pdf's)
- Instructors can use the Turnitin feature to check student submissions for plagiarism
- Instructors can grade submitted student papers and files online
- Students can see their Assignment grade and instructor feedback online, at anytime
Basics
- Sakai 11 User Guide: Assignments
- How to Create an Assignment: Video | Handout
- Both the video and Handout contain information on how to set up the Turnitin feature, the plagiarism checker
- How to Grade Assignments: Video | Handout
- How to Edit an Existing Assignment (Longsight)
- How to Release Assignment Grades (Longsight)
Best Practices for Assignments
Resubmitting Assignments
- Allow One or More Students to Resubmit an Assignment (pdf)
- Note: Students can not resubmit assignments that are using the Turnitin feature.
- How to submit an Assignment for a Student (Longsight)
- Why can't my student resubmit their assignment?
Feedback
Turnitin
Turnitin is a suite of writing evaluation tools available to instructors (and students) through Sakai.
The Turnitin suite includes:
- Similarity Reports -- helps detect plagiarism and "non-original" student writing
- Instructor Feedback/GradeMark -- provides a "paperless-grading" system for giving students feedback on their writing (includes e-rater feature)
- PeerMark -- facilitates peer review so students can give each other anonymous, structured feedback
For a more in-depth overview, see the Turnitin Suite product page at turnitin.com.
- What do students need to know about Turnitin? Check out our Student Sakai Turnitin info
- How do you set up Turnitin? Follow these instructions for using the Turnitin feature with the Assignments tool: Video | Handout
- How do you grade Turnitin Assignments?
Advanced Topics
- How to Enable Peer Review for an Assignment (Longsight)
- How to Grade a Peer Review Assignment (Longsight)
- How Students Complete a Peer Assignment (Longsight)
- How to Enable Group submissions for an Assignment (Longsight)
