Comments (AKA QuickMarks)
One of the great features of Turnitin is the “QuickMark,” or Comments feature, which allows for a grader (like yourself) to create a set of premade comments for an assignment. You can drag-and-drop these comments onto the document, and the student can read them. This comes in handy once you start grading and find common mistakes that you don’t want to constantly retype comments for.
Whenever you take off points, you must leave a Comment so the student knows what they lost points for. Don’t forget!
Below is an example of a Comments set for grading outlines:
Whenever you take off points, you must leave a Comment so the student knows what they lost points for. Don’t forget!
Below is an example of a Comments set for grading outlines:
In the blue boxes, the titles of comments are displayed. When you hover over a box, its full description appears in the light blue box below. Simply drag-and-drop these comments to wherever you want as you’re grading.
To change the set of comments that you’re using to grade an assignment, simply click the icon of three white lines at the top-left corner of the comment box to view all the available comment sets. This is shown below:
To change the set of comments that you’re using to grade an assignment, simply click the icon of three white lines at the top-left corner of the comment box to view all the available comment sets. This is shown below:
To edit a comment set or create a completely new one, click the white wrench icon in the top-right corner of the comment box. A window will pop-up that displays all the sets, all the comments in each set, and an area where you can edit everything.
If you want to switch sets, select the set you want from the menu on the far left, then click Make this the active set.