Aston University, Birmingham, 12 February 2014<\/b><\/p>\n
The CEO Chris Caren apologised unreservedly for the outage which occurred during December 2013. He explained that it was an unacceptable incident, and was due to human error \u2013 an undersized database machine had been mistakenly deployed which was unable cope when a number of large batch jobs were submitted in a short amount of time. The company has now appointed a new, experienced data base administrator, as well as system monitoring tools and queueing technology to process submitted papers immediately after an outage. Users are encouraged to subscribe to an upcoming real-time system status page and alerts; the email and twitter lists are going to become \u2018opt-out\u2019 instead of \u2018opt-in\u2019. Users present at the meeting called for less change and not in the middle of an academic term, together with more warning and better communication.<\/p>\n
Will Murray (Senior Vice President, and CEO if iParadigms Europe) said that there will be more information on their website, all known issues will be in a \u2018known issues\u2019 log on the status page and linked to the email and twitter feeds. The feedback tab in Turnitin (User Voice) provides details of their planned upgrades (1.5 years ahead), release notes and bug reports. Release notes are now emailed to the email list as well as being available on the website. Users are encouraged to sign up for the live \u2018Tech Talks\u2019 (webinars) which are offered quarterly. There is a publicly available product blog and they are working to bring all the online help materials in one place. They are working on planning and developing the new \u2018NextGen\u2019 product and will run a parallel beta version over the summer.<\/p>\n
Releases that took place in 4th<\/sup> quarter, 2013:<\/b><\/p>\n \u2022 colour printing of Originality Report Releases planned for February 2014:<\/b><\/p>\n \u2022 allow any file type (turn it on in the admin settings \u2013 \u2018allow any file type\u2019) \u2013 accept images,\u00a0 e.g. photo of student\u2019s paper (submitted from student\u2019s phone). This is mainly all for marking \u2013 can\u2019t do originality check on all these files. Releases planned for March 2014<\/b><\/p>\n \u2022 class segmentation (meta information about a class) *******************<\/p>\n Tips:<\/strong> Existing User Group requests (under investigation)<\/strong> Next Gen aspirations <\/strong> Grading spaces<\/strong> Other improvements<\/strong> Aston University, Birmingham, 12 February 2014 The CEO Chris Caren apologised unreservedly for the outage which occurred during December 2013. He explained that it was an unacceptable incident, and was due to human error \u2013 an undersized database machine had … Continue reading
\n\u2022 grading forms (simpler than rubrics) \u2013 categories and comments
\n\u2022 accept and mark Powerpoint files (Excel coming in April 2014)
\n\u2022 iPad (grade anywhere) \u2013 they will also support Windows and Android. Note that students can\u2019t submit via iPad
\n\u2022 LTI 1.1 launched: they are implementing the standard and it is the chosen route forward.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 – the Sakai community has since confirmed that LTI (2.0) has been launched, including via Sakai.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 – IT Services (Oxford) is investigating a pilot project using Turnitin\u00a0LTI. This will appear as a \u2018new tool\u2019 in WebLearn, taking users into the direct Turnitin interface, with more options available, such as anonymous marking and PeerMark.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 – a full set of LTI implementation manuals\u00a0is available from the submit.ac.uk website
\n\u2022 iPad pin code to protect grades
\n\u2022 improvements to the login page and workflow<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 increase file size (currently 20 Mb) (Sept2014) \u2013 for whole PhD and video files
\n\u2022 grading without submissions, e.g. performance, presentation etc \u2013 you get a grading template
\n\u2022 pre-written rubrics to reuse
\n\u2022 import rubrics (from Excel)<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 road map will be available in the document viewer<\/p>\n
\n1.\u00a0new \u2018Grade Anywhere\u2019 video demos will be launched within two weeks
\n2.\u00a0You can use voice recognition software to dictate and save your Quick Marks
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\nWill Murray: What\u2019s next?<\/strong>
\n1.\u00a0Update on agile software development process \u2013 going very well:
\nUnfiltered\u00a0\u00a0 \u2192\u00a0 Funnel\u00a0\u00a0 \u2192\u00a0\u00a0 Program (\u2018trains\u2019) \u2013 all in User Voice\u00a0\u00a0 \u2192\u00a0\u00a0 Road Map\u00a0\u00a0 \u2192\u00a0\u00a0 Live
\n2.\u00a0iParadigms will make staff available to tour UK institutions to hear about their needs, especially in terms of policy.
\n3.\u00a0Implement IMS LTI 2.0 by summer 2015<\/p>\n
\n\u2022\u00a0double blind marking (is scheduled)
\n\u2022\u00a0exclude footnotes from being matched in the OR
\n\u2022\u00a0separate release of feedback from release of grades
\n\u2022\u00a0download audio feedback
\n\u2022\u00a0notification of late submissions
\n\u2022\u00a0email non-submitters<\/p>\n
\n\u2022\u00a06 months beta over second half of 2014 \u2013 can opt in during mid-2014
\n\u2022\u00a0go live in northern hemisphere in mid-2015
\n\u2022\u00a0touchable – touch screens
\n\u2022\u00a0responsive – size of interface \u2013 resize for different devices
\n\u2022\u00a0theme-able \u2013 look like the VLE integration
\n\u2022\u00a0new Document Viewer and all the rest of the TII UK interface (which they call the CMS)
\n\u2022\u00a0folders, offline, drafts
\n\u2022\u00a0multiple instructors per class
\n\u2022\u00a0increased admin controls
\n\u2022\u00a0integrations \u2013 share code with TII UK<\/p>\n
\n\u2022\u00a0each tutor gets their own marking area
\n\u2022\u00a0associate different rubrics with different spaces
\n\u2022\u00a0leave comments for moderators
\n\u2022\u00a0create a quick mark and place it on more than one grading space
\n\u2022\u00a0can offer combined view to students (or not) (e.g. Tutor1 quick marks, and Tutor2 quick marks)<\/p>\n
\n\u2022\u00a0more integrated OR and GradeMark \u2013 put comments on OR, filtered by tutor, and associated voice comments (layers)
\n\u2022\u00a0can hide the Similarity Index while marking<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"