MyLO Integrations

Turnitin is a software application that has been licensed and deployed by the University of Tasmania for both student and staff use in an attempt to improve academic integrity. Turnitin matches the written text in any submitted paper against all the other documents stored in its databases.

More information on how to use Turnitin within MyLO and on Academic honesty can be found here: www.utas.edu.au/turnitin/

All staff and students have access to a dropbox that utilises Turnitin via the Academic Honesty unit within MyLO. Please be aware that you must still submit your assignment within your unit - the dropbox within the Academic Honesty unit is for your viewing only. The use of this dropbox will not affect the originality report of your file once you submit it within your unit.

Accessing Turnitin:

Students at UTAS can access the Turnitin comparison software in two ways

Creating and Viewing a Turnitin Assignment

Documentation on how to Create a Turnitin assignment can be found here:

Creating and Viewing a Turnitin Assignment (PDF 673KB)

Use Turnitin's Grademark tool to provide Feedback and Mark

GradeMark allows staff to mark a students work online within the Turnitin interface. You can use the QuickMark sets that are available or create your own to provide feedback quickly by dragging them onto the paper. You can also use Voice comments to record a personal message. More information can be found in this guide (PDF 943KB)

Using QuickMark Comments in GradeMark

A QuickMark standard editing mark is a commonly used or standard mark that can be used by a lecturer when grading papers.

Using a standard set of editing marks across an account ensures that lecturers and tutors across the curriculum are giving consistent feedback to students.

Lecturers can create new QuickMark sets that can be exported and be reused by importing them into Turnitin for other assignments in other units.

To export QuickMark sets:

1. Click on the "QuickMark Manager" tab from within the "Libraries" tab
2. Click on the name of a QuickMark set to export
3. Click on the "import/export" button and select "Export Set..." from the drop down menu
4. A prompt will appear asking if you would like to save the file. Click "OK" to save the file. The file name will be the QuickMark set name with .qms appended.

To import QuickMark sets:

1. Click on the "QuickMark Manager" tab from within the "Libraries" tab
2. Click on the "import/export" button and select "Import Set..." from the drop down menu
3. Click on the "Browse" button and locate the QuickMark set file on your computer. Only .qms file types may be imported into the QuickMark manager
4. Click on the "Import" button
5. To import additional QuickMark sets repeat steps 3-4.
6. Click the "Close" button to return to the QuickMark Manager

For more on information on QuickMarks please read this guide: QuickMark Guide (PDF 743KB)

Respondus is an application that is used for creating and managing exams/ quizzes that can be printed out or published directly to MyLO. You also have access to the Test Bank Network, which contains the official test banks for thousands of publisher textbooks.

Lecturers who adopt a participating textbook can access the accompanying test bank from within Respondus to import into MyLO.

You can download the latest version of Respondus from here: https://secure001.utas.edu.au/downloads/site-licences/Respondus/Respondus2023.zip This zip file includes the application, the licence and user starter guides.

The University of Tasmania also has a license to use the Respondus Lockdown Browser and Monitor. This allows for a quiz to be taken within a special browser that does not allow users to print, search the internet, or open another tab.

Equella is UTAS’s digital copyright system and the main repository for e-readings. Equella is fully integrated with MyLO and staff can insert readings into MyLO content directly through their MyLO units. Students can access the readings by either selecting a link to the reading or accessing the reading list.

How can I use it with MyLO?

There are two guides available for staff on how to use Equella within MyLO.

These are:

• Uploading and Linking to an Equella Item Within MyLO (PDF 599 KB)
• Inserting an Existing Equella Item in Content (PDF 549 KB)

Students will see the Equella resource displayed as a link in the unit content area.

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