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Flags in Turnitin Feedback Studio
Posted July 12, 2023
by IDLT
Turnitin will flag any instances of an unusual character within a paper. These flags will identify when a character has been replaced and unusual hidden characters.
Replaced Characters
Some fonts and characters look similar to the naked eye and are difficult to detect in a paper. This technique is used to “fool” the Similarity Report when text is copied and pasted from an outside source. Go to this example at Turnitin: https://help.turnitin.com/feedback-studio/f...
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Video Quizzes with YuJa to Increase Cognitive Load
Posted July 12, 2023
by IDLT
Do you create videos for your courses? Want to use those videos to help students learn even better? Consider adding quizzes or reflective pauses to your videos in YuJa. In 1988, John Sweller developed the Cognitive Load Theory which “suggests that our working memory is only able to hold a small amount of information at any one time and that instructional methods should avoid overloading it in order to maximize learning.”* In adding questions or pauses in videos, we can hel...
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