In addition to giving you a report on the originality of student papers, Turnitin also features a powerful grading and commenting tool. As well as allowing you to give numerical feedback on a student submission, you can also directly enter your comments into specific parts of the paper.
- From your course page, click on the Turnitin assignment (
) to go to its summary page (if you are not there already). - Click on the
tab to see all of the student submissions. - You will see a listing of all of the students in the course and their submissions (if they’ve submitted anything yet). Click the
icon in the 
column for the submission you want to grade. - The student’s paper will appear in a new window. You can click or highlight anywhere in this paper to add a comment. Click anywhere on the paper or on text you’ve highlighted so that the
box appears, enter your comment, and click 
. - You can use QuickMarks to insert canned comments quickly. There are some stock Turnitin marks you can use (
, 
, etc.) by clicking and dragging them from the panel on the right. If you want to create your own, click on the paper to create a new comment and click 
. Enter a 
and choose a 
and click so that you can use it again in the future. - Click the grade field in the far upper right (next to the similarity percentage) and replace the
with the grade you want to give the paper. Press Enter to save. - Close the window when done, or click the
or 
buttons in the upper-right to quickly go to other submissions.