Electronic Submission

Tom Jolley (CiCs)

What we’ll cover• Exploring the MOLE assignment tool

and Turnitin• The differences between them• The features each offer• An example of where you might use

each

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The MOLE Assignment tool• MOLE is the university

branded name for the Blackboard system

• Blackboard has own in-built assessment tool

• Can be added to a MOLE course via the assessments menu

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The Turnitin Assignment tool• A 3rd party tool licensed

to the university

• Embeds into MOLE, so looks like it’s a MOLE tool

• Set this up in the same area as the MOLE assignment tool.

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Which one is best?

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About the right tool for the job

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What they both do

Functions supported by both tools

What they both do…• Provide a space for students to submit

online

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Turnitin MOLE

What they both do…• Allow you to annotate/provide inline

feedback

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Turnitin

MOLE

What they both do…• Enable to you use online marking rubrics• Support anonymous marking• Allow students to submit any file type• Pass grades to the Grade Centre in MOLE• Download assessment submissions in bulk

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Advantage of each toolTurnitin

• Audio voice comment feedback

• Quick mark feedback

• Text matching• Offline marking

app

MOLE• Feedback file

attachment• No file size limit set• Freehand drawing

in annotation tool• Supports group

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Turnitin

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Turnitin audio feedback

Turnitin quick marks

Turnitin

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Turnitin originality checking

MOLE

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MOLE assignment tool allows you to add feedback file attachments.

MOLE

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Freehand annotations in

MOLE

Other things to consider• Turnitin has a size limit of 20mb or 400

pages

• The Turnitin voice comment has a 3 minute limit

• Only certain file types is supported by text matching • Word/PDF/HTML/plain text/PTF/PPT)

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Where might you use each tool?

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Any Questions?

For more informationContact the TEL TeamTEL@Sheffield.ac.ukhttp://tel.group.shef.ac.uk/

https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/cics/learningandteaching