E-learning

Turnitin and assessment tools

Turnitin

At the beginning of November 2010, the University gave all students on taught programmes at Sussex access to Turnitin. Turnitin is an online ‘text matching’ tool that compares a student’s work to a huge database of other files and shows where there are strong similarities. It is often referred to as plagiarism detection software.

Students access submit their work to Turnitin via a Study Direct site. By the end of Autumn Term 2010, 1,754 students had submitted over 3,000 files to Turnitin. This represents 15% of students enrolled on the site. The five guides to using Turnitin have received on average 597 views each (range 304 to 831).

You can find out more about the development of Turnitin at Sussex on the TLDU Turnitin page.

Assessment tools

We know that assessment and feedback are key influences on student learning. How can we use technologies to help students focus on the tasks they are required to undertake and provide timely feedback that helps students to better understand the outcomes that you wish them to achieve?

There are myriad ways in which e-learning can support assessment and feedback process and we can only give a flavour on these pages that focus on the type of teaching and learning that takes place at Sussex and the tools available to practitioners.