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
- 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
- Create, Grade, and Download Multiple Submissions and Grade Assignments (University of Florida)
Best Practices
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 submit an Assignment on Behalf of a Student (Loyola)
- Note: Submitting an assignment for a student works correctly with assignments except for those using the Turnitin feature.
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
- How do you set up Turnitin? Follow these instructions: Video | Handout
- How do you grade Turnitin Assignments?
- After setting up your Turnitin Assignment following the instructions above:
- Click on Assignments, under your Assignment title, click on Grade.
- You'll see a new column for each student submission. The column is located next to the Grade column, and is called Turnitin.
- Below the Turnitin column, you'll see a colored icon representing a Turnitin Report; or "no report", if a student didn't submit the assignment.
- After you click on a student's Turnitin Report, you may have to click on Accept, to access the student's report.
- Next, a new browser tab will open, and by default, will display the Originality Report.
- To find out how to use the Originality report, you can review Turnitin's Instructor Originality Check information
- For advanced grading, you can also use Turnitin's Grademark tool to add comments to your student's Turnitin Reports. For information on how to use the Grademark tool, you can review Turnitin's Instrucotr Grademark information
- Click on Assignments, under your Assignment title, click on Grade.
- After setting up your Turnitin Assignment following the instructions above:
- Turnitin Options in Sakai Assignments (Rutgers)
Drop Box
- Drop Box (Rutgers)
- What's the difference between the Drop Box and Resources? (Duke University)
