Turnitin - Best Learning Capacity-Building Solution

Company: Turnitin, Oakland, CA
Company Description: Turnitin is a global company dedicated to ensuring the integrity of education and research and meaningfully improving learning outcomes. Turnitin partners with educational institutions to promote honesty, consistency, and fairness across all subject areas and assessment types. Our products are used by students and professionals to do their best, original work.
Nomination Category: New Product & Service Categories - Education
Nomination Sub Category: Learning Capacity-Building Solution

Nomination Title: Turnitin's Turnitin Feedback Studio with Draft Coach

Additional Materials:

https://www.turnitin.com/products/features/draft-coach">Draft Coach Landing Page

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoMsmTExd7U">Promotional Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLYPsjcN9pc">Video Guide for Instructors

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myCSarYODqg">Video Guide for Students

Turnitin Feedback Studio with Draft Coach launched in Beta in July2020 and became generally available in January 2021.

Turnitin is well known as a company that upholds academic integrity, streamlines assessment,andencourages students to do their own, best original work.

Turnitin's most recent offering, Turnitin Feedback Studio with Draft Coach, gives students the power to directly improve their original thinking skills while drafting assignments, Students learn by making mistakes, but learning is so much more effective when those mistakes are made -- and able to be corrected --before they turn in an assignment. When students can write, iterate and revise their work, tremendous gains are made in writing ability. Feedback Studio with Draft Coach is exactly the product to allow that interactive process to occur in Google Docs, right where most students are composing essays for their courses.

Turnitin Feedback Studio with Draft Coach helps students improve their academic writing and research skills by providing access to Similarity Reports and citation feedback as they draft in Google Docs.Draft Coach serves as an integrity coach that lives where students work and supports them in doing proper research, citing their sources effectively, and delivering high-quality academic writing.By providing students with formative feedback on citations and matches with Turnitin’s comprehensive database of internet, student papers, and academic content, Draft Coach helps educators cultivate more independent learners and confident writers.

Draft Coach'sfeatures and benefitsinclude:

tudents run a similarity check directly within Google Docs to ensure proper research and understand where to revise their writing prior to final submission.
-Students give credit where credit is due by using Draft Coach to find any missing references and citations.
-In-app guidance helps students think critically about their similarity and citation checks.
-Students tend to spend more time writing and revising before submitting their final essay meaning that they are learning more with each iteration and also turning in better essays.
-Teachers save time because students can apply the formative feedback to correct errors and submit their own best and original work.

“With distance learning challenging enough as is, our students really appreciate how Draft Coach has allowed them to go to just one place to receive feedback, make edits, and submit their best work. Draft Coach has saved me so much time. I’ve recommended it to many of my colleagues.” -- Douglas Lambe, English Teacher at The Tatnall School in Wilmington, Delaware

Customer Blog Post: How to foster original thinking and revision with Draft Coach https://www.turnitin.com/blog/how-to-foster-original-thinking-and-revision-with-draft-coach

TeachThought Article: 10 Ways To Help Students Become More Independent Learners https://www.teachthought.com/pedagogy/ways-to-help-students-become-more-independent-learners/