Feedback Studio Instructor

The features and functionality available to you are based on the license purchased by your institution. Consult your administrator for more information.

Looking for some quick tips to help you get started? Check out our instructor Quick Start Guide or get an overview of everything you can do on our instructor resources page.

Account basics

• Setting up your account from an email
• Joining an account as an instructor
• Joining an account as a TA
• Logging in
• Logging in via Google SSO
• Logging in via Clever SSO
• Trouble logging in?
• Resetting your password
• Changing your account settings
• Changing your security information
• Changing user types
• Messages and announcements
• Paper Deletions
• Viewing usage statistics

Classes and master classes

• Creating a class
• Copying a class
• Expiring a class
• Extending a class
• Reactivating an expired class
• Viewing expired classes
• Creating a master class
• Adding a TA to a master class section
• Managing a master class
• Creating new sections
• Creating assignments in a master class
• Enrolling students in a master class
• Adding assignments to sections
• Viewing all master class assignments
• Converting a standard class to a master class
• Reverting a master class into a standard class
• Viewing the grade book for a master class
• Viewing the calendar for a master class
• Changing preferences
• Class usage statistics

Student management

• Accessing the student page
• Enrolling students individually
• Enrolling students from a list
• Allowing students to self-enroll
• Removing students
• Emailing students
• Emailing non-submitters
• Resending student welcome emails
• Locking and unlocking students
• Viewing the class portfolio
• Enable anonymous marking
• Identifying an anonymous student

Assignment Management

Paper/Essay assignment

• Creating a paper assignment
• Enabling late submissions
• Advanced assignment settings
• File types displayed in the Turnitin Viewer
• Elements of the assignment inbox
• Moving papers between assignments
• Downloading papers
• Grading without a submission
• Viewing papers
• Viewing late submissions
• Viewing submission information
• The assignments library
• Importing assignments
• Enabling anonymous marking
• Editing an assignment
• Extending an assignment deadline

PeerMark

• About PeerMark™ assignment
• Creating a PeerMark™ assignment
• Editing and deleting PeerMark questions
• Reordering PeerMark™ questions
• Writing a peer review
• Writing a review for a selected paper
• Using the PeerMark™ tools palette
• Adding bubble comments to a review
• Adding composition marks to a review
• Adding inline comments to a review
• Viewing peer review information
• Reading peer reviews
• Grading peer reviews
• Editing review grades and overall grades
• Printing peer reviews

Making a submission

• Single-file upload on behalf of a student
• Multiple-file upload on behalf of a student
• Cut-and-paste submissions on behalf of a student
• Zip-file upload on behalf of a student
• Activating quick submit
• Submitting via quick submit
• Accessing Similarity Reports via quick submit
• Locating digital receipts
• File requirements

Similarity

• Accessing the Similarity Report
• The Similarity Report explained
• Interpreting the Similarity Report
• Similarity Score Ranges
• Viewing similarity matches
• Viewing sources
• Refining the Similarity Report
• Generating a new Similarity Report
• Accessing the text-only Similarity Report
• Managing paper view requests
• Multicolor highlighting in the Similarity Report
• Using Translated Matching
• Downloading the Similarity Report

Similarity exclusions

• Excluding quotes and bibliography
• Bibliography and quote exclusions
• Excluding small matches
• Excluding sources
• Excluding assignment templates
• Viewing excluded sources

Report navigation

• Moving between papers
• Using layers
• Using the thumbnail sidebar
• Accessibility

Grading and Feedback

QuickMarks and commenting tools

• Accessing the QuickMark Manager
• Creating new QuickMarks
• Editing QuickMarks
• Archiving and restoring QuickMarks
• Removing a QuickMark from a set
• Searching for QuickMarks
• Creating new QuickMark sets
• Adding QuickMarks to an existing set
• Downloading QuickMark sets
• Uploading QuickMark sets
• Hiding and filtering QuickMark sets
• Deleting QuickMark sets
• Adding QuickMarks to a paper
• Deleting QuickMarks from a paper
• Adding comments and strikethroughs
• Deleting comments and strikethroughs
• Converting bubble comments to QuickMarks
• Assigning criteria to QuickMarks and comments
• Adding text summary comments
• Recording voice comments

Rubrics

• Creating a rubric or grading form during assignment creation
• Creating a rubric or grading form after student submission
• Starring a rubric or grading form
• Viewing your starred rubrics and grading forms
• Removing a star from a rubric or grading form
• Modifying a rubric scorecard
• Attaching a rubric scorecard to an assignment
• Grading in the rubric side panel
• Grading in the expanded rubric manager
• Duplicating a rubric scorecard
• Downloading rubric scorecards
• Uploading rubric scorecards
• Assigning criteria to bubble comments
• Modifying a grading form
• Attaching a grading form to an assignment
• Grading in the grading form side panel
• Grading in the expanded grading form manager
• Duplicating a grading form
• Downloading a grading form
• Uploading a grading form

Insights

• Document details (Turnitin Originality only)
• Flags
• AI writing detection (Turnitin Originality only)

E-rater® grammar check

• Viewing e-rater feedback
• Dismissing and revealing e-rater marks
• Adding comments to e-rater marks
• Hiding e-rater feedback categories
• Viewing the writer's handbook
• When is e-rater feedback released to students?

The grade book

• About the grade book
• Elements of the grade book
• Grade book preferences
• Adding an entry to the grade book
• Entering grades in the grade book
• Dropping grades
• Changing point values in the grade book
• Scaling grades
• Exporting from the grade book
• Graphing tools
• Printing a grade book graph
• The grade book student page
• Tracking student attendance
• Viewing a QuickMark breakdown
• Viewing the Learning Analytics Report
• Exporting the online grading report

Class calendar

• Accessing the class calendar
• Adding announcements
• Adding class notes
• Adding holidays
• Viewing assignment dates
• Uploading a syllabus
• Viewing the calendar in list mode