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 19 User Guide: Assignments (Sakai Community)
- 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 (Sakai Community)
- How to Release Assignment Grades (Sakai Community)
Best Practices for Assignments
Resubmitting Assignments
- Allow One or More Students to Resubmit an Assignment (pdf)
- How to submit an Assignment for a Student (Sakai Community)
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 Turnitin info
- How do you set up Turnitin? Follow these instructions for using the Turnitin feature with the Assignments tool: Video | Handout
Advanced Topics
- How do I Add a Rubric to an Assignment (Sakai Community)
- How do I Grade an Assignment using a Rubric?
- How to Enable Peer Review for an Assignment (Sakai Community)
- How to Grade a Peer Review Assignment (Sakai Community)
- How do Students Complete a Peer Assignment (Sakai Community)
- How to Enable Group submissions for an Assignment (Sakai Community)
- This video displays how to grade a group submitted Assignment, and how to override individual group members grades
