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 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.
- 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
- 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
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)
