How to Grade and Comment on Student Essays in Moodle

Kerri Brown Parker
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17 steps
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3 minutes

Turnitin

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Navigate to and click on a Turnitin Assignment in Moodle

A highlighted Turnitin assignment on the main view of a Moodle page

The Assignment Inbox will show all students and provide information about who still needs to be graded under the Grade column, a summary of potential plagiarism issues under the Similarity column (higher percentage = higher match with other sources" and a percentage of *likely* AI writing.

In the Assignment Inbox you can also search for specific students and submit a paper for a student in your course.

A student with a number under the Grade Column has been graded. If you see a pencil icon under the Grade column, that student has not been graded and you can click on the pencil icon to get started grading and reviewing similarity and AI reports.

In the "Feedback Studio" pop up window, to enter a grade (without a rubric) click the "--" field next to the total points and enter a grade.

After clicking into a student's work, you can highlight text to leave in-text comments for students.

If you make a comment often, click "Convert to QuickMark" and you will be able to easily add the same comment to other students' work.

In the right sidebar, use the top three blue buttons to add QuickMarks, write or record overall comments, or access and use a rubric (if you set one up in the original Turnitin assignment settings).

Drag QuickMarks onto the students' work to add the comment you use regularly to a student's work.

Use the "Feedback Summary" button to add an overall Voice Comment or Text Comment to the assignment.

Click the "Rubric/Form" button to access the rubric you set up prior to grading and then the slider bars to select a level for each criterion. The "Apply to Grade" button will update the grade on the assignment to match the points set in the Rubric.

Use the second set of five red buttons in the right sidebar to access different features of the similarity report. The "Match Overview" number button will provide you with similarity matches from sources across the internet, journals in databases, other papers submitted to our institution, etc. Click on each source to show the specific similarities.

The "AI Writing Detection" button at the bottom of the right sidebar will display a number suggesting how much of the paper was ***likely*** written with AI assistance or AI copy/pasting. **NOTE:** *Even when this number is high, Turnitin warns "Caution: Percentage may not indicate academic misconduct. Review required."*

Click into the AI Detection button to get more information about Turnitin's analysis. We **highly recommend** reviewing the disclaimer and the guides provided by Turnitin on how they identify AI generated content and how the information should and should not be used by instructors. **NOTE: Students DO NOT see the AI report.**

After grading, reviewing, and commenting, close the student's Feedback Studio pop up box to return to Moodle.

In addition to reviewing and grading work in the "Assignment Inbox," instructors can review assignment "Analytics" including summaries for when students submit work, similarity score range summaries, how many students take advantage of re-submitting work, etc.