Hello Joe, 

Many thanks for this information, it sounds quite impressive what you’ve managed to integrate so far. 

We are at the very early stages of thinking about integrating marks to SITS as the process we currently have is very drawn out and time consuming as I’m sure you are aware. Do you have an in-house developer(s) that built this integration and did it take a lot of time/resource to setup? What percentage of course marks go to SITS via this route? Is the entire university onboard?

Sorry about all the questions Joe, but as you can appreciate, it’s the missing link for a whole bunch of us. Perhaps you have a paper or presentation about it you can share?

Best and thanks

Maria

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On 3 Nov 2015, at 07:05, Joe Currie <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hi Maria,

We don't have a fully automatic integration unfortunately. But I believe that SITS were in very early discussions with Turnitin a few months ago.
What we do have though is a BIRT report which pulls the information from the Blackboard grade centre. This is then manipulated into a csv file before being dropped into a folder where SITS takes the file in. It is still a manual process, but we are able to bulk move grades across. The reports can also be used to pull grades across for tests, assignments and pretty much anything else sitting in the gradebook. I am happy to explain in more detail what we have here and if it would be of any use to you.

Thanks,
Joe

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Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh EH21 6UU
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