Retirement of Turnitin Direct Assignments
As of March 2023, Turnitin LTI Assignments have superseded Turnitin Direct. LTI Assignments should be used for new student submissions and existing Direct Assignments treated as ‘view-only’.
Summary
Using Anonymous Grading with Turnitin is a way to allow grading staff the option to hide students’ names when assessing assignments. This helps to prevent bias when allocating marks. Anonymous Grading has some limitations that teaching and grading staff need to be aware of before implementing this feature.
Using Anonymous Grading
Anonymous Grading can be enabled when you set up a Turnitin Direct assignment for the first time in Blackboard. The setting can only be changed if there are no submissions already made by students. It can not be changed once students have uploaded an assignment.
The setting for enabling Anonymous Grading is located in the Account Specific section of the assignment creation page.
Setting to enable Anonymous Grading
Limitations
When viewing the Submission Inbox you have the option of revealing a student’s identifying information. Instructors need to provide a reason for revealing this and once revealed the change is irreversible. If the name is made visible then an audit trail is created; more information about the release of identifying information can be provided by ITS Staff if required. Please contact AskOtago.
Staff grading assignments need to be aware that a student’s name, once revealed, is visible all Instructors in the course. If you are grading as a group, other grading users will be able to view the information.
If students put identifying information into the title or cover page then this information will not be anonymised.
Students have no indication that an assignment is graded using Anonymous Grading.
Additional Information
Help pages written by Turnitin about Anonymous Grading
