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Turnitin for iPad has arrived!
What do a sofa and a bus have in common? They are both places you can use the new Turnitin for iPad app to give your students really good feedback!
OK, so maybe you don’t imagine yourself on a bus… but a lot of you have been asking for an app to help you mark your students’ work at a time and place that suits you – so hopefully this will be exciting news.
This is fresh off the press so we’re just getting up to speed with the new features ourselves, but what we can say is that it looks good!
Click the image above to launch a video.The app has lots of features to help you give your students really great feedback on their writing. You can view your students originality reports, grade with rubrics, and annotate with QuickMark, highlights, bubble, inline, voice comments, and more. You can even sync assignments to your device to carry on grading in those annoying no internet zones!
Learn More
- You can find features information and training guides on the Turnitin website
- You can sign up to a 30-minute webcast hosted by Turnitin on Tuesday, 20.08.13 at 6pm – register for the Grade Anywhere: Turnitin for iPad to see a demo and hear more from one of the beta-users, Dr. Shannon Farris.
Try it!
We have created a Quick Guide to Getting Started with the Turnitin for iPad App as you will need to change a few settings and generate an ‘access code’ to see assignment submissions in your courses. It’s a bit fiddly but you only need to do it once.
Let us know how you get on – we’d love to hear how and where you use the app to evaluate your students work and help them improve their academic writing skills.
Contact the Learning Technology Development team to share any queries or comments you have regarding the new app – leave a comment below, email [email protected] or call 01695 650754.
Meg Juss
Learning Technology Development Manager
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Learning Edge Upgrade Webinar: “Play it again, Sam”
We wanted to say a big THANK YOU to everyone who attended the Blackboard VLE Summer Upgrade webinar yesterday. We hope it met your expectations and that you came away with a better understanding of the new Blackboard tools at your disposal, as well as the benefits you can gain from the feature improvements.
As I mentioned during the webinar, the session is now available for everyone to watch again. You have 2 options to replay the session, the first being YouTube:
Secondly, you can click on the following URL you access the entire session via Blackboard Collaborate:
http://tinyurl.com/LTDstaffdevSP12
Feel free to get in touch with us at [email protected] if you have any questions or would simply like to know more about the upgrade.
Mark Wilcock
Learning Technology Development Officer
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Learning Edge Upgrade: Now Completed
Upgrade Sucess
The scheduled Leaning Edge Blackboard 9.1 upgrade has been completed successfully and you can now login as normal.
As well as ensuring the highest level of performance and stability this upgrade will ensure Edge Hill staff and students have access to a modern feature rich system. We hope you like it!
As with any upgrade, you may find some unexpected behaviour– if you do spot any problems please let us know asap so we can investigate and get them resolved for you.
Where can you learn more?
As mentioned in a previous blog post, the LTD team are facilitating an online webinar (via Collaborate) at 2.30pm on Wednesday 24th July. This session will introduce you to what’s new, provide you with an opportunity to ask questions and help you explore where and how to make the most of the new improved system.
Please Feedback
Take your time to explore the upgraded system and let us know what you think.
Contact the Learning Technology Development team to share any queries or comments you have regarding the upgrade or the online webinar– leave a comment below, email [email protected] or call 01695 650754.
Meg Juss
Learning Technology Development ManagerLearning Services: Learning Technology Development Division
