Tools to aid marking of assessments

Grademark

Grademark is an additional feature of TurnitinUK, the plagiarism detection software currently used at Leeds. Assignments are uploaded to the system by students and then become available for marking online. Tutors can create their own rubrics (pre-defined comments) and reuse them on more than one assignment. Once the assignments are marked they can be made available for students to view electronically. Paper copies can also be printed. The system also has tools for recording and managing marks.

View Turnitin's Flash demonstration of grademark (requires a Flash player plug-in).

or read instructor manual (pages 31 - 35)

What do you think the advantages and disadvantages might be of marking online?

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Advantages	Disadvantages
Consistency - you can reuse the same rubrics on more than one essay Time saving - if you are repeating the same comments on several student assignments Easy to amend comments More detailed feedback - as a result of reusing comments and being able to link externally Legibility Ease of collection and return - students like the fact that they don't have to visit the department office to collect and return their work	Reading on a screen Risk of less personalised feedback

Advantages

Disadvantages

Consistency - you can reuse the same rubrics on more than one essay
Time saving - if you are repeating the same comments on several student assignments
Easy to amend comments
More detailed feedback - as a result of reusing comments and being able to link externally
Legibility
Ease of collection and return - students like the fact that they don't have to visit the department office to collect and return their work

Reading on a screen
Risk of less personalised feedback

Find out about Staff Development courses on using Grademark at Leeds
This link searches the courses database to see if there any courses planned in the near future

Microsoft Word

Screenshot of Word review toolbar It is possible to annotate a Word document electronically and email the edited document back to the students by using the Review tools in Microsoft Word. The following article from Tulane University discusses how.

Annotating Document in Word