LMS Weekly Update: Symposium news, Turnitin updates

Posted on Thursday, February 21st, 2019

Space is still available for faculty interested in participating in the Brightspace Symposium on Thursday, Feb. 21.

The symposium is free of charge and people can attend all or just some of the scheduled activities taking place from 8 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. in Banquet Salon A in D building — but registration is required. The event is fully catered (breakfast, lunch and a reception are included for registrants) and features a wide variety of fun and interesting opportunities to learn, including speakers, presentations and workshops.

Come and meet the LTS team and hear guest presenters from the University of Ottawa, eCampus Ontario, College La Cite, Brightspace creator D2L, and Mohawk College.

Register for the event here.

 

Turnitin eRater Grammar Feedback

There has been a small change to Turnitin.

While setting up Turnitin for assignments, instructors can now turn on eRater Grammar checker for their students. This allows learners to review this Grammar feedback immediately upon assignment submission. This is helpful for assignments that are set up to allow multiple submissions. Learners can initially submit an assignment, receive Grammar feedback, and then submit another version that incorporates the feedback. On the due date, that last assignment submitted by the learner can be the final one for grading.

Coming to Brightspace

A new annotation tool for grading assignments will be available in Brightspace in March.

According to D2L, faculty will be able “to provide feedback in the Assignments tool with grades, high-level feedback, rubrics, video, audio, contextual inline annotations, or any combination of these. Annotations … are a great way to tie feedback to specific areas and provide meaningful suggestions.”

Go here to watch a video that highlights how to use the tool.


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