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Marking with Marky Mark – Managing the marking period stress free
Yes, it’s that time of year again… Exams are in full flow, the academic year is beginning to come to a close (for students perhaps!) and that means one thing… marking! It can be a stressful time for tutors with the (virtual) mountains of papers requiring a critical eye cast over them, for this reason…
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Turnitin Feedback Studio: Ready for marking
As we are swiftly heading on through this semester and towards end of term assessments we thought it would be helpful to once again highlight marking through Turnitin. Turnitin recently released Feedback Studio; an updated and revamped way of marking papers with some nifty new features such as page navigation and Grading/Similarity layers. Access to…
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Technology Supported Learning – Submission Possible with SafeAssign
Last year the Professional Education Team started to explore current options for electronic submission at Edge Hill University. Mark Sutcliffe (Senior Lecturer in Professional Education) shares his experience of SafeAssign, part of the Blackboard Assignment Submission offer, in support of the challenges faced by students with academic writing. “Prior to using SafeAssign I had known…
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Keep Calm and Submit this Christmas
Christmas comes around quick doesn’t it!? One minute you’re moving in to halls for the term, the next you’re back off for a fortnight! It’s hard work being a student but before you pack your Christmas hat, Playstation and elf onesie don’t forget your end of term submissions! During November our team of Student Advisors ran a series of…
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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…
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eAssignments: Which is the right tool for me?
eAssessment is gaining more and more popularity in the HE sector. Students are demanding the convenience that electronic submission gives them and so with a number of tools on offer within Learning Edge you have the opportunity to give your students what they are looking for. Learning Edge currently has 3 tools to allow your…
