Turnitin Feedback Studio provides an anonymous marking facility. When this is activated, student personal information such as name, email address and ID number, is masked and will not display in the submission inbox or marking process.
Caution: When anonymous marking is enabled on an assignment, it cannot be disabled once the first submission has been received. Unintentionally enabling anonymous marking may have a significant impact on the intended assignment grading workflow, and should, therefore, be used judiciously. Consult with LEAD if you would like to discuss this function further, before enabling it.
Why might Anonymous Marking be useful?
Anonymous marking may provide instructors and graders a means of addressing the risks of conscious and unconscious personal bias, of focusing on the work without knowledge of who the author is, and may promote the sense that assessment is fairer by being blind to the individual authors.
Managing Integrity Questions when Anonymous Marking is Enabled
Should an instructor or grader consider that an academic impropriety warrants investigation on a submission under anonymous marking, there is the facility to have the student's details revealed.
Where the anonymity override is used, the requester will be asked to provide a reason for the revelation of student details. This reason, together with the reveal request and requester's details will be recorded in an audit record and the local Turnitin administrator will be notified.