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We're pleased to announce the release of three new frequently requested features:

• Shortcut from Inbox to Modify Assignment Settings

Instructors can now access assignment settings directly from the inbox for that assignment, instead of modifying individual settings for each paper, or having to navigate back to the assignment settings panel.

• Download GradeMark Analytics as Spreadsheet Files

The new detailed analytic reports generated by GradeMark may now be exported at the click of a button. As of July 2009, GradeMark now generates an extensive table of data regarding student performance on various grading marks and rubrics. When exported as a spreadsheet file (.xls), instructors can perform additional analysis on this data and gain more insight into how they can better address the needs of their students, both individually and as a whole class. Instructors can also incorporate this data into other vital records and reports.

• Progress Bar for Zip File Uploads

In addition to recent improvements to the overall process for file submissions (the limit for individual files has increased from 10MB to 20MB, and the zip file limit has increased from 100MB to 200MB), a progress bar now indicates the progress of the submission of a zip file.

In case you missed our announcements over past two months, please note the release of over a dozen new features and enhancements. Highlights include:

• An option to exclude quoted (and biblographic) material from papers' Similarity Indexes for an entire assignment -- not just for individual papers.
• An option to exclude small matches in Originality Reports to help streamline the process of evaluating your students' papers for unoriginal content. Instructors can choose the size of excluded matches as a number of words (such as 8 or 11), or a percentage of all words in a paper (such as 4%).
• An expanded Similarity Index that shows multiple sources for highlighted matches in the Originality Report -- not just a single possible source.
• A summary report for GradeMark that presents a table of all graded papers in an assignment with every rubric criterion rating and how many times each QuickMark grading item was used on each one!

This is just a sample of the new features. View the complete list.

As of June 2009, our search and text matching capability has been greatly expanded, both in REACH (finding matches to more content from more sites and providers), and IMMEDIACY (finding matches to very recently updated content, like news). Turnitin is now better than ever at finding text matches -- especially for up-to-the-minute news and info.

Further expansion of our search and text matching via wider-reaching, expanded search technologies include:

• Internet search expansion by over 20 billion searchable objects
• A multi-language platform investment that greatly expanded our indexing and content matching to over 30 languages -- including character-based, non-alphabetic languages
• Continuing investment in our own technolgy for crawling, indexing and archiving web content, proprietary publication content and student papers.

The Turnitin Originality Checking service is helping educators encourage original student writing and discourage plagiarism. A recent series of in-depth statistical studies reveals that when secondary schools, colleges and universities use Turnitin:

• Students become better writers and researchers. They create work with more original content and learn appropriate ways to use and cite source material.
• Teachers save time. With Turnitin’s easy-to-read Originality Reports, hours once wasted searching for evidence of suspected plagiarism can be spent providing feedback to produce better writers.
• Institutions improve their overall levels of learning. Continued use of Turnitin helps ensure the integrity of an institution and its educational mission — and the degrees it grants... more