Once the students upload their written papers, you need to download all of them into a cloud folder. If you are not familiar with Turnitin assignments see USC CET links. It allows you to check for plagiarism and offers the set of options for grading that was illustrated above. Your students should turn in their papers using TurnitIn. In my case, I use any computer that is otherwise not occupied at home plus an apple ipad pro with the apple pencil. To pull this off, you will need 3 things: computer with Blackboard access, tablet and stylus. Here are the steps if anyone is interested in streamlining the process while sticking with some of their “old” routines. Luckily, there is way to grade like we used to but deliver the papers back to students via Blackboard. Image 1 - Blackboard written feedback option
Turnitin and Blackboard options, I feel, leave those students shortchanged. Some of my students want editing suggestions and comments for improvement because they intend to work on these opinion pieces for publication. So my only option is to type up all the comments and also spell out for which specific part of their essays those comments are relevant. Offered QuickMarks do not resemble anything that applies to my students’ work. I do offer my students a rubric, before they even start working on their assignment, but they want to know why or how points were awarded. In the grading window within Blackboard, you have the option to provide rubric elements, written feedback, or quick marks. When using Blackboard to grade Turnitin papers, I find the options limiting, time intensive and thus inefficient to use. Suffice it to say that I find it faster to understand the student’s work, process their arguments or train of thought, connect the dots they are trying to make, especially if work is not well written, offer commentary in the margins, draw arrows and squares to move their work around, and highlight editing issues all over the page.
There probably are more than a few articles our colleagues could cite to explain the psychology behind this habit. I grade better in pen and paper, or at least digital pen on digital paper. So not only is our teaching practice changing on the fly, our grading has to adapt as well. With the move to online teaching, snacks can still be procured, at least for now, but hard copy paper assignments are the thing of the past. The idea of grading 48 individual op-ed pieces in my political economy class conjures up an image of tall stacks of papers, colored pens, and crumbly snacks strewn all over my work desk.
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