{"id":3997,"date":"2015-01-12T15:23:36","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T15:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/learningedge\/?p=3997"},"modified":"2016-03-03T15:56:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T15:56:00","slug":"turnitin-grades-what-has-been-seen-cannot-be-unseen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/learningedge\/2015\/01\/12\/turnitin-grades-what-has-been-seen-cannot-be-unseen\/","title":{"rendered":"Turnitin Grades – What Has Been Seen Cannot Be Unseen!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s that time again… marking.<\/em><\/p>\n

Very few would actually admit to enjoying marking reams of students’ work right after the Christmas break but it is a necessary (evil) task.<\/p>\n

And to make things worse, students seem to be finding their grades out early! How on Earth did that happen? You’ve done everything you thought you needed to, so how are they getting them!?<\/p>\n

Yes, the process to hide grades and marks from students is a little convoluted. Ideally we’d have a single button that we could use to hide and then un-hide whenever we want (or even better, on a specific date!) but alas, no such magic exists… yet. \u00a0Whilst we await with fingers crossed for a better way, there are a couple of things you need to do now to get it right.<\/p>\n

Here’s our top 5 tips for hiding grades:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Remember the Post Date<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0(This is the date on which TURNITIN gives access to any marks and comments you have left via the Turnitin Grade Mark feature).
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  2. Remember the option (within Optional Settings<\/strong><\/span> when setting up Turnitin) for ‘Reveal grades to students only on post date?<\/strong><\/span> > YES<\/strong><\/span>‘
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  3. Remember to hide the relevant column<\/strong><\/span> in the Grade Centre also (Turnitin is a separate programme to Blackboard, so don’t forget that not only do you have to hide in Turnitin, but also in Blackboard!)
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  4. Check that the grade isn’t being fed through to another column that ISN’T hidden<\/strong><\/span>! For example Total<\/span><\/strong> or Weighted Total<\/span><\/strong> column.
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  5. The final one that can be very annoying… if you forget to hide the grades until after you’ve entered marks, then even if you hide the columns retrospectively, if a student has already been in and seen their grade then it may have ‘cached’ on their web browser so regardless of what you do, they’ll still get to it!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    If you have any questions at all about this information get in touch with your local friendly Learning Technologist for your department who will be more than happy to help our with any queries or niggles you may have with using Turnitin or Blackboard (or any other learning technology for that matter!)<\/p>\n

    Oh, still here? Excellent! How about a few more nuggets of information\u00a0about online submissions?<\/strong><\/p>\n