Tii now unusable!
Anyone else finding that, since some recent changes, Tii is now basically un-usable?
I have a class of ~300 students. In our department, coursework submission is via an internal system that accepts work, notes late penalties etc. and allows us to download the work at our leisure.
It used to be a simple case of downloading a zip file of all the work, and uploading it to TurnItIn.
But, now, we have to:
1) Upload a list of all the students - in chunks of 100 because more than 100 is not allowed for some ridiculous reason.
2) Upload the PDFs
3) ** Manually choose the author for EACH piece of work **
What an absolute shambles of a system. Imposed upon us without consultation, or apparently the slightest regard for our valuable time (or sanity!).
What a joke of a company.
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Entirely agree!
What used to take 3 minutes now takes an hour - not made any easier by the appalling UI design, names arbitrarily abbreviated, no way to manage given/surname ordering .... euch... -
I'm intrigued to know how it used to work. We have an integration with the VLE, so most work is uploaded via that. I have one area that's for Turnitin Training, and I have a class set of work that I upload directly periodically. I don't have to add students manually, as they're already there, but I do get that it'd be annoying to have to do them in groups of 100, not however many needed - I know that many institutions have classes of >500.
HOwever, uploading the zip file & manually matching is something I have to do when I want to submit for our test students.
used you to be able to have a list of names / files (e.g. via a spreadsheet) that would both populate the student names & their work in one??
I wonder if who ever built your internal tool could use the API (https://help.turnitin.com/integrity/administrator/api-custom.htm?Highlight=API ) to get it to integrate fully with your internal system. That might even mean you didn't have to download/upload as you had to before.