Blackboard Direct Instructor
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Assignment management
Start here! Creating a Turnitin Direct assignment
There are many options that allow instructors to tailor their assignments to meet different challenges they might face:
Editing assignment submission dates
Exclude bibliographic material
Allow students to see Similarity Reports
Grade export and bulk download
Submissions inbox
The submission inbox is where you will see student's submissions appear once they've started to submit.
Refresh and force refresh submissions
Insights
Document details (Turnitin originality only)
The Similarity Report
The similarity report highlights any elements of a paper that are similar to content found in our database. You can tailor the report using several filtering options:
Interpreting the Similarity Report
Accessing the text-only Similarity Report
Generating a new Similarity Report
Excluding quotes and the bibliography
Bibliography and quote exclusion definitions
Refining the Similarity Report
e-rater®
Dismissing and revealing e-rater® marks
Adding comments to e-rater® marks
Hiding e-rater® feedback categories
When is e-rater® feedback released to students?
Commenting tools
Assigning criteria to bubble comments and QuickMarks
Converting bubble comments to QuickMarks
QuickMarks
Accessing the QuickMark manager
Changing QuickMark set visibility options
Copying QuickMarks to an existing set
Rubric scorecards and grading forms
Creating a standard 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
Assigning criteria to bubble comments
Attaching a grading form to an assignment
Grading in the grading form side panel
Grading in the expanded grading form manager
PeerMark™
Creating a PeerMark™ assignment
Editing and deleting PeerMark questions
Reordering PeerMark™ questions
Viewing peer review information
Editing review grades and overall grades
Writing a review for a selected paper
Adding bubble comments to a review
Adding composition marks to a review