Many academics across the HE sector are familiar with Turnitin and GradeMark. It is a suite of tools used for assessment, mainly electronic marking and delivering feedback to students for their submitted assignments. It also includes very useful features such as the Originality Report, PeerMarking and Revision Assignments.<\/p>\n
As you may know Cardiff University is getting ready to switch on the new Feedback Studio<\/a><\/strong> during the summer. Feedback Studio is new product replacing the old GradeMark tool, <\/strong>so this is something to bear\u00a0in mind for the new academic year.<\/p>\n Feedback Studio retains all of the tools that were previously available<\/b> to you to provide feedback or check originality. These can now be used via a set of \u2018Instructor Feedback\u2019 and \u2018Similarity\u2019 buttons that you can choose to enable using the new Layers feature.<\/p>\n Feedback Studio combines\u00a0Grademark and originality report into a single set of features accessed from a simple menu when viewing a student\u2019s submissions. It\u00a0has been designed to provide a clear and simple interface for you to check originality and mark online<\/b>. We feel that the tool is much more responsive in terms of layout, which will be an improvement for our staff.<\/p>\n Feedback Studio is still accessed and created in the same way and there is no change to the design of the assignment inbox<\/b>. The main change is to the document viewer interface (see the demo<\/a>). There is also a very helpful\u00a0interface overview<\/a> (created by University of Reading) which is available to view.<\/p>\n The instructor and student views of submitted papers are now more simple and clear. The marker can easily switch between the similarity layer and the grading layer, making it easier to provide feedback. The grading tools are also very simple to use. Simply click anywhere on the paper and provide an in-line comment, bubble comment or place a Quickmark from your set.<\/p>\nThere’s no need to panic!<\/h3>\n