Getting your Feedback
Getting your Feedback
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CONTENTS
Introduction ..................................................................................................................... 3
Getting your feedback ....................................................................................................... 3
Accessing your feedback via Turnitin ............................................................................................. 3
Accessible e-feedback report ......................................................................................................... 4
Different types of feedback your tutor might leave ......................................................................... 5
More types of feedback your tutor may leave ................................................................................ 7
Examples of inline, highlighted and standard comments ................................................................ 8
Saving/printing a copy of your feedback and originality report ............................................. 9
Help! ............................................................................................................................... 9
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INTRODUCTION
This guide shows you how to access your feedback in Turnitin and applies to you if your
tutors give e-feedback. Check with your module academic staff to find out how feedback is
offered on your course.
Other helpful guides in this series give information on Submitting work via Turnitin and How
to Interpret your Originality Report. Find them via the HELP tab in Blackboard.
GETTING YOUR FEEDBACK
Where e-feedback is being used for your assessment Turnitin will produce a ‘GradeMark’ efeedback report containing a copy of your submitted work with feedback attached to it.
ACCESSING YOUR FEEDBACK VIA TURNITIN
Go to the specific Turnitin Assignment in your Blackboard
course and click the View/Complete link.
Click on Show Details
Click on the View button to open the GradeMark e-feedback report
e-feedback is available when the View
button turns blue
(it may give an error if you click it when
grey)
Note: e-feedback reports are only available after the ‘post date’ (the date when your
feedback and marks become available). You must wait until the View button turns blue.
Clicking on it before it turns blue may give an error.
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A new browser window will
open containing the
GradeMark e-feedback report.
ACCESSIBLE E-FEEDBACK REPORT
Turnitin e-feedback in the Document Viewer is not screen-readable.
However, you can make a PDF version of the e-feedback report which is. See Saving/Printing
a Copy of Your Feedback below. If you prefer, your tutor or programme administrator can
download a PDF version of your feedback for you and email it to you.
PDF versions of e-feedback reports contain the same basic information as the online version in
the Document Viewer, and are more easily screen-readable and navigable, but they are not as
interactive.
Note: In the Document Viewer, you can switch between your
e-feedback and Originality Reports by clicking on Originality
or GradeMark (top left of page).
If you want to see text highlighted in your originality report
whilst looking at your e-feedback, you can overlay this by
clicking on the small checkbox next to Originality.
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DIFFERENT TYPES OF FEEDBACK YOUR TUTOR MIGHT LEAVE
Depending on your programme’s arrangements for feedback, you might see some or all of
the following types of feedback:

A grade (above and right of your script)

An overall summary of your work (this is the General Comments section of the efeedback report)
Grade
overall summary
(click speech bubble at bottom)

A breakdown of how well you did in each area of the assessment e.g. how well you
met the brief, knowledge of theory and literature, analysis and conclusions,
presentation style etc.
You’ll find this in the rubric scorecard section of the
report. Click the rubric scorecard icon at the bottom
of the e-feedback window:
You’ll first see a list with a heading for each of the assessment criteria, what level you
achieved and what that means.
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Assessment Criteria
Level
(how well you met this
particular criteria)
Level Description
(what it means to be
at this level)
You can also get an idea of how to improve by looking at the
complete assessment grid to see what is required to achieve
higher levels. Turnitin calls this a Rubric.
Click on the link to View full size rubric to see the complete
grid (pops up in a new window).
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Level
(how well you met this criteria)
Assessment Criterion
(headings for marking)
Level Description
(what it means to be
at this level)
Level Description
(what it means to be
at higher levels)
MORE TYPES OF FEEDBACK YOUR TUTOR MAY LEAVE

Comments on specific sentences and paragraphs in your script:
o inline comments: written directly onto your script
o highlighted comments: linked to a specific sentences
o standard comments: from a list of commonly used feedback relating to
spelling, grammar, referencing etc
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EXAMPLES OF INLINE, HIGHLIGHTED AND STANDARD COMMENTS
Standard Comments – roll
mouse over to see more
Highlighted Text Comments
(roll mouse over for feedback)
Inline Comment
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SAVING/PRINTING A COPY OF YOUR FEEDBACK AND ORIGINALITY REPORT
Your e-feedback and your originality report will be available online through Blackboard only
for as long as you are enrolled in the Blackboard area for the relevant module, pathway,
cohort or programme.
Once you no longer have access to that Blackboard area, you won’t be able to access your efeedback report so you are recommended to save a copy of your marked work for future
reference as well as a copy of your originality report.
To do this, click on the printer icon at the bottom of the Document Viewer
Select Download PDF of current view for
printing.
If you are in Originality View, your originality
report will be downloaded.
If you are in GradeMark View, you marked work will be downloaded.
You can switch between the two views by clicking on the relevant word at the top left of the
Document Viewer:
HELP!
Comprehensive advice and guidance, including user guides and technical support, can be
found via the Blackboard HELP tab.
See also the Turnitin online help:
Contact your tutor
if you’re not sure what, where and when to submit to Turnitin, for training on using Turnitin
or if you accidentally submit the wrong file or to the wrong Turnitin Assignment
Contact the i-Zone
if Turnitin is not working properly including any technical error messages.
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