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
- Turnitin Options in Sakai Assignments (Rutgers)
- 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. It's 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
- After setting up your Turnitin Assignment following the instructions above:
Drop Box
- Drop Box (Rutgers)
- What's the difference between the Drop Box and Resources? (Duke University)
