I am “pretty certain” that using the option in the building block to set this does not include the value, at least in the limited test we did last week I know it did not but I am not 100% sure I had included it in the total.

Peter

From: Blackboard/Courseinfo userslist [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Andy Turner
Sent: 29 March 2011 16:05
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Subject: Re: [BLACKBOARD-USERGROUP] Calling Turnitin users - passing grades into BB

Thanks for that tip Leo.

You’re right – hiding My Grades on a particular course doesn’t stop that course showing up in their global My Grades view.

And actually, hiding the individual column (which is pretty much a one-click job) doesn’t entirely solve the problem. The student can still see their Total score – which of course includes the Turnitin mark.

So I’ve now gone into “Edit Column Information” and unticked “Include this Column in Grade Centre Calculations”.

That solves it, but is a bit more fiddly for staff to do – especially if they then have to go in and reverse the settings after the post date.

all the best

Andy

From: Blackboard/Courseinfo userslist [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Leo Havemann
Sent: 21 March 2011 11:34
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Subject: Re: Calling Turnitin users - passing grades into BB

I think that if students have access to ‘My Grades’ from anywhere, they will be able to see any visible grades, according to the Grade Centre’s settings which are unaffected by your Turnitin assignment settings (i.e. grades are visible as soon as entered, even if before the post date).

The exception to this is when you have anonymous marking switched on in Turnitin - this does hide the grades because they don’t get passed through to the Bb GC until the post date (in order to preserve the anonymity).

So if you are using non-anonymous marking, and students do have access to the My Grades tool, I think it’s best to go into the GC and ‘manually’ hide the relevant column from the view of students, and then go back in and reveal it on the post date.

Cheers

Leo

From: Blackboard/Courseinfo userslist [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Andy Turner
Sent: 18 March 2011 08:55
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Subject: Re: Calling Turnitin users - passing grades into BB

Peter

I think you’ve got that right.

The final question: students can see their marks via the Blackboard Grade Centre as soon as they have been entered.

unless Anonymous marking is turned on, in which case nothing is visible in Turnitin or Blackboard until the post date.

To get round the problem of students being able to see marks straight away, you can (temporarily) hide the link to My Grades in the Blackboard course. What I need to test, is whether students can still get to those marks via My Grades on the home page tools panel, even for courses where the My Grades link has been hidden.

Andy

From: Blackboard/Courseinfo userslist [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Harrison, Peter
Sent: 17 March 2011 17:10
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Subject: Calling Turnitin users - passing grades into BB

Evening All,

I have a department who are interested in starting to mark online using grademark but do to previous experiences want to be certain about when the students can see the various components.

Student sees Originality report : In Turnitin if settings permit at the time the settings specify the report to be created ?

Student sees Grademark comments : In Turnitin after the post-date ?

Student sees numeric mark : In Turnitin after the post-date ….. but when in Blackboard is it after the post-date or as soon as it is entered?

Obviously I am going to put together some test cases but it is always easier to check something is doing what you expect rather than try and work it out from scratch!

Peter

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