making the best of blackboard tools grade book, assignments, and turnitin
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Turnitin Get an account
Go to http://www.turnitin.com/ Account number = 16011 Password = csuhayward2
Deterrent Value Announce your intentions to use
Turnitin in the class Include Turnitin info in your
syllabus Explain how it works Print out and show examples of
how Turnitin works
Turnitin (continued) Two ways to submit documents
Students submit documents Revision feature allows revision without
plagiarism check Instructors submit documents
One at a time Batch upload multiple files
Turnitin Searches the Internet, old copies of
the Internet, journals, newspapers, Proquest database, and its own database
Sensitivity is 6 – 8 characters in a row Creates a digital fingerprint of the
submitted document and compares it to all others on the web
Proquest
Today, as a result of agreements with more than 9,000 publishers worldwide, ProQuest Information and Learning provides access to information from periodicals, newspapers, out-of-print books, dissertations, and scholarly collections in various formats. Our archive includes more than 5.5 billion pages of information, spanning 500 years of scholarship, in formats that range from print to microform to digital.
From:http://www.proquest.com/division/au-about.shtml
Turnitin Hints Create revision assignments so a
student’s paper will not be flagged as plagiarized
Use as a deterrent Provide an alternative
Gradebook Control Panel > Gradebook Students automatically populate
the spreadsheet Spreadsheet is downloadable as an
Excel file
Setting up Click “Add Item” to create a column Auto – generated columns:
Assignments Assessments
Pay attention to settings Letter = A, B, C, D, and F with + or – only Text = all letters Score = number Complete/Incomplete = I or C Inconsistencies in display settings and entries may
result in an “F” displaying to students
Weighting Grades
Number of points scoredNumber of points possible = X %
X % times the weight of the item = y %
Sum of the y% of each item = weighted total
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Gradebook Hints ensure the grades/score you enter in an
item match the display options (setup) ensure that for a grade only display,
points possible are 0 when weighting grades, that the
weights equal 100% being aware of the display options download spreadsheet after it is set up
(you can work offline) and do not alter its structure
Assignments Provide clear and concise
directions of your expectations as well as of the process (download assignment - complete assignment - upload assignment)