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Hi all

 

Here at UoM we import logs from Blackboard (we’re on managed hosting) into our data warehouse which in turn is queryable through Oracle Discoverer (yes, that). It works, sorta, kinda, pretty well (more on this, with more explicit/honest language to those who ask…) mostly. It does make an awfully big database (we’re past 1B rows as of now and have to purge old data periodically) though other institutions’ data may be smaller as it will scale pretty naturally with size of institution (since the UMIST merger, we’re a pretty big place).

 

Actions of certain types can be counted against courses (but also by user and date). Tii actions on integrated instances of Tii assignments are logged (there are few different actions) so we get an idea of usage. It doesn’t anything within Tii itself of course, so that may well be the next thing I/we look at solving, but of course it depends on a third party company playing along, which of course they don’t always have the time to do.

 

Kind Regards

Philip Styles | Learning Technologist | Humanities eLearning Team

Tel: 0161 306 1744 (Internal: 61744)

 

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Sent: 13 October 2014 11:28
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Subject: Re: Turnitin account statistics

 

Hi Rebecca,

 

if you find a way to do it I’d like to know too. As the integration is a single account (we use the Basic plugin) we only get global data and cannot drill down to individual course level. I believe the information does sit inside the Blackboard Log files but I do not know how to extract it. 

I’m very interested to hear if it is possible.

 

Kind regards,

 

Matt

 

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Matthew West

Learning Technology Officer

Learning & Professional Development Centre

Keele University

+44(0)1782 733730


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On 13 Oct 2014, at 10:48, Rebecca Gill <[log in to unmask]> wrote:



Hi everyone

 

I need to get some meaningful statistics about the level of usage of Turnitin here at Newcastle (predominantly through Blackboard integration), but I’m struggling to pull out accurate figures and wondered whether anyone else has succeeded in doing this, and how you go about it. 

 

What I’m looking for is figures for the number of modules (Blackboard courses) with Turnitin Assignments, total number of Turnitin Assignments, total number of submissions, number of originality reports and number of assignments marked using Grademark.  The TurnitinUK Statistics tool looks like it should be able to produce most of these (though not the number of modules using Turnitin), but the stats don’t look accurate - the total number of students is higher than it should be for the whole institution, and the other totals are also higher than we would expect.  The breakdown by staff member also seems misleading, as assignments seem to be counted multiple times when there is more than instructor for a course. 

 

Has anyone managed to decipher the statistics from the tool, or have you found another way to pull out these kind of analytics?

 

Best wishes

 

 

Rebecca

 

Dr Rebecca Gill

Development Officer

Quality in Learning and Teaching (QuILT)

Newcastle University

 

Direct Dial: 0191 208 5558

Fax number: 0191 208 7794

 

 

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