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Volume Two - Academic Conferences

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Barbara Newland et al.<br />

VLE), the VLE, ePortfolio software (PebblePad) or home grown solutions. This is illustrated in Figure<br />

2.<br />

Figure 2: Does your institution recommend particular software for eSubmission of text and non-text?<br />

A high percentage (79%) use Turnitin integrated within the VLE for eSubmission of text, while 13%<br />

use Turnitin stand alone. 58% use the VLE system and a small percentage uses a home grown<br />

system (11%) or an ePortfolio system (3%). This shows the dominance of Turnitin in this area which<br />

has probably developed from its use as plagiarism detection software. It is not possible to submit nontext<br />

to Turnitin, so this type of eSubmission is primarily via the VLE (55%), while 13% utilise a home<br />

grown system and 8% an ePortfolio system.<br />

Most institutions mandate the technology to be used and there is usually more than one technology to<br />

cope with the different file formats. One member was “quite curious about why some institutions have<br />

gone down the path of looking at mandatory single-systems, and if they feel they have lost anything<br />

through this, also what the benefits are.”<br />

The technical infrastructure for eSubmission must be reliable, robust and secure as the submission of<br />

assignments is very important for students to progress in their studies. The infrastructures in<br />

universities support eSubmission, eFeedback (audio), eFeedback (text), eMarking and peer marking<br />

as shown in Figure 3.<br />

A high percentage stated that their technical infrastructure supports e-submission (89%), e-feedback<br />

in audio format (58%), e-feedback in text format (79%) and e-marking (74%). Only a relatively small<br />

percentage support peer marking (5%). This shows that universities are in a position to implement<br />

eSubmission on a large scale.<br />

The integration of systems helps with efficiency and also illustrates a level of maturity with processes.<br />

Whereas there is a high percentage (79%) of integration of Turnitin with the VLE, only about a third<br />

have integrated eSubmission and eGrading to their student record system as shown in Figure 4.<br />

There were no questions to clarify the level of integration which may vary and this could be part of<br />

future research.<br />

The results show that eMarking has been implemented in 76% of departments. The relationship<br />

between whether a department has implemented eMarking and the technical infrastructure being in<br />

place is highlighted in Table 1. It shows that 58% of the departments that implemented eMarking also<br />

felt that the technical infrastructure supported eMarking.<br />

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