Sakai: Assignments

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
• How to Setup an Assignment in Sakai: Video | Handout
  • Both the video and Handout contain information on how to set up the Turnitin feature, the plagiarism checker
• How to Grade an Assignment in Sakai: Video | Handout

Best Practices for Assignments

• Best Practices for Assignments handout

Resubmitting Assignments

• Allow One or More Students to Resubmit an Assignment (pdf)
  • Note: Students can not resubmit assignments that are using the Turnitin feature.
• Return a Submission to a Student for Editing (University of Florida)
• Why can't my student resubmit their assignment? (February, 2014)
• How can I easily "submit" an Assignment for a Student

Feedback

• Instructor Summary Comments Display to Students in Gradebook - NEW! (July 2014)
• How do I get Students to look at/listen to my Feedback?
• Provide Feedback for Assignments (Duke)
• Provide students with Feedback in Assignments (UNC-CH)
• How can students view comments that instructors leave for assignments? (Duke)

Turnitin

Turnitin is a suite of writing evaluation tools available to instructors (and students) through Sakai.

The Turnitin suite includes:

• Originality Check -- helps detect plagiarism and "non-original" student writing
• 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?
• Turnitin Options in Sakai Assignments (Rutgers)

Drop Box

• Drop Box (Rutgers)
• What's the difference between the Drop Box and Resources? (Duke University)