

Continuing to improve this area for you is therefore one of our key commitments in the 2022/23 academic year. There was an improvement in the 2022 results, but they are nowhere near where we would like them to be. Over five years we saw a decline in our National Student Survey (NSS) results relating to student satisfaction with the quality, quantity and/or timeliness of feedback. (You can read the University’s policy and its benefits to you here or read this Study Zone blog post to find out how timely feedback can be really important for your learning.)Ī key aspect is to get feedback to you within a reasonable period of time (normally 15 working days), ensuring that you can best act upon it. How to check your submission via TurnItIn before the deadlineĪssessment and feedback are an essential part of the student experience and fundamental to the learning process helping to promote learning and assuring academic standards and quality.Whilst TurnItIn reports may be used to highlight poor practice and potential issues of academic misconduct, the TurnItIn software cannot interpret those similarities for us, therefore all scripts are checked by an academic who will decide whether there is anything to be concerned about. As long as your work has been properly referenced then it is not a disadvantage to have it flagged in the report. Low similarity scores can be as indicative of academic misconduct or poor academic practice as high scores.


IMPORTANT: Reducing your TurnItIn score to 0% (zero) should not be your objective. Please note, some colleges do not allow this function so it may be unavailable for your programme/module. During the final week in July 2021 we will be introducing a new function in the BART system which enables the first two of these draft submissions to be automatically uploaded to TurnItIn and this will generate a report which you will be able to access and use as a learning tool for improvement. This functionality is not changing and students will continue to be permitted to change their submission upload without incurring any penalty up until the deadline. BART allows students to make multiple submissions to an upload link as the deadline for an assessment approaches.
