Turnitin Feedback Studio Reviews

If you’re an instructor, this is pointless. The interface to give feedback is cumbersome on a mobile device. There is no functionality to upload new files or cut/paste submissions to your current classes or assignments, which was the whole reason I downloaded TurnitinFeedbackStudio . You’ll have to stick with the website. Turnitin has had plenty of time to develop a functional app. Clearly, it’s not on their to-do list even though most of their users are on mobile devices. A real shame.

TurnitinFeedbackStudio was already not ideal, but now assignment submissions for new classes won't load. I can see submissions from previous classes, but new assignment submissions all appear as past due when the submission clearly there when viewing the class in a browser. Turnitin has been extremely slow to fix an issue that more than just a bug. If you can't load student submissions in TurnitinFeedbackStudio , you can't use TurnitinFeedbackStudio to grade paper, making TurnitinFeedbackStudio completely worthless.

TurnitinFeedbackStudio is utterly neglected by the developer after many years of working well. Many instructors, like myself, have come grade essays using this and incorporated it into our course methodology and feedback for students. It’s been about a month now and this still is not working as it was in August. Please attend to TurnitinFeedbackStudio, Turnitin! Fix this!

TurnitinFeedbackStudio used to be the best part of Turnitin. The drag and drop comments made it so easy to grade on my train commute. But for months TurnitinFeedbackStudio has not worked at all. It crashes immediately. They say they are working on it, but they obviously aren’t giving it any attention. Very disappointed.

My old classes show nicely. However, the classes I added in Oct 2021 are not working. They show up but when I touch the course, TurnitinFeedbackStudio crashes and closes down. I have tries to log out and log in a number of times but I see no change in behaviour.

This used to be incredibly useful, streamlining my grading, and helping me comment on essays with efficiency. I advocated for it constantly. it’s 100% non-usable for me now. What’s worse is that the desktop app itself is glitchy more than ever as well. Somethings wrong at Turnitin.

TurnitinFeedbackStudio is so overdue for updates. The company says they’re working on correcting issues, but at this point it’s useless and I’m sure if thousands of instructors have given up on it. It’s a shame.

Feedback Studio gets worse with each update. Can’t even see paper submissions anymore.

TurnitinFeedbackStudio keeps crashing and it feel almost impossible to grade papers on it. It's not user-friendly anymore.

TurnitinFeedbackStudio needs a major update since it is unusable at this point.

TurnitinFeedbackStudio no longer syncs or works with the website at all. Useless.

It’s quite clear the developer has abandoned TurnitinFeedbackStudio. It’s buggy, unreliable, and the pencil support for iPad is terrible. I won’t be coming back.

The entire point of grading on an iPad would be to annotate the paper with the Apple Pencil. So why is this not included?

This is an awfully devolved app. It never works and is hard to use. DO ME A FAVOR AND NOT GET IT!!!

Turnitin seems to have served a useful purpose in its early days—the early NCLB era—when it was simply a plagiarism-checker and when students were still required to submit their a hard copy of their assignments on good, old-fashioned paper. But since universities have generally shifted to allowing their students to submit only in electronic form, and using Tii for this purpose, Turnitin has simply not kept up at the technological level at all.

It is grindingly slow. It tends to be crashy (as in, you’re submitting a grade, then TurnitinFeedbackStudio crashes before it’s recorded on the sever). It’s copy-and-paste functionality acts like something from 1997. On the iPad, it does not seem to implement the iOS dictation functions and spelling-correct very well. The Quickmark system is slightly helpful but not really all that quick. The process of adding free form comments does not feel fluid at all. And oh yeah, it can take up to half a minute for the annotations that are already on a paper to appear onscreen. (And it’s not too hard to argue that all of this actually warps the quality of feedback that students receive.)

Moreover, all of these above functions could be performed using using other software tools with significantly more efficiency. But Turnitin uses the advantage of its market-capture monopoly to avoid developing its product for actual users.

The real problem, of course, is that most of its users are poor, or at least by definition underpaid (they are graduate students and teaching assistants, or paid markers). This means they need to work more hours to make enough money to live on. But the tool they must use to complete their job actually slows down the process of working. So, they can’t take on additional work, and thus, they remain poor and have a degraded quality of life. All because some company ended up with software mission-creep to the point that it had deployed a bad product everywhere that somehow everyone was still using.

I've used the Turnitin app for years. Today, in the middle of grading an assignment, it started an update I didn't authorize. I waited patiently and returned afterward to continue grading. The screen kept "freezing," so I turned my iPad off and on, checked for an Apple update, and eventually tried uninstalling and reinstalling TurnitinFeedbackStudio because none of the previous things stopped the "freezing." I'd be reading, and suddenly I couldn't scroll or make comments anymore. After reinstalling TurnitinFeedbackStudio , I was able to make comments again, but I found the rubric completely unusable. It keep adding points on its own so that grades were coming out to be more than 100%. When I would try to correct the mistakes, the whole app would close automatically. I'm so peeved right now, and I guess I'm going to have to finish my grading on the computer.

I understand TurnitinFeedbackStudio isn’t for students, but I’m a teacher and that’s what I expected. My students have laptops to turn in their papers. I’m used to using Turnitin to grade papers, but I knew I’d be offline a lot. TurnitinFeedbackStudio allows me to download an entire class of papers - I pulled 50 plus off at a time - and grade them one by one on my iPad without being online. It’s so easy to use, especially if you’re already familiar with Turnitin (which, by the way, is a web based program that your school must purchase - although very worth the money). Then, after I grade, I just sync my papers when I’m back on wifi and now my students can see their comments. This even brought in all my unique quick marks to use within TurnitinFeedbackStudio ! The only downside to this is that the auto spelling / grammar check doesn’t work on the iPad, but small price to pay for such a great tool. I graded 8 papers the other night just waiting in the car for my kids to finish their activity. Less wasted time! Thanks Turnitin!

I've not had issues with TurnitinFeedbackStudio crashing on me like others have mentioned. In fact, TurnitinFeedbackStudio has been nothing but a grading lifesaver since I downloaded it at the beginning of this year. My junior-level English courses are now completely paperless. All outside-of-class work is to be submitted and graded on the website.

The Grademarking section of TurnitinFeedbackStudio works wonderfully. I've easily been able to create and save my own grading suggestions/comments and I plug them quickly and efficiently into my students' papers. I would say I've easily cut my essay grading time in half. And that doesn't even account for not having to lug around file folders filled with papers of all kinds.

I love TurnitinFeedbackStudio and would highly recommend it to any teacher who is looking to save themselves time on grading. It takes a few papers to get used to it, and another few to develop your Grademark entries, but it is well worth it in the end.

Turnitin and Turnitin for iPad make grading so slow. When it first came out, Turnitin was touted as making grading easier and quicker; however, because simple things that should take one step now take three or more, my job is much slower than it used to be. Further, my grade marks disappear and reappear without rhyme or reason, so I often have to use the search box to find them. AND when I grade on my laptop, the grade marks I created on my iPad do not appear. The two versions do not appear to talk to each other. To top it off, it closes suddenly and gives me messages that say I need to delete and then reload the program. That works for a while, but then the problems build again. Overall, Turnitin has way too many bugs these days. Turnitin, you need to get your program together, or some other company is going to come along and replace you with a more reliable and efficient product.

There are so many silly elements of TurnitinFeedbackStudio, but I’m grateful for it nonetheless. I probably wouldn’t buy an iPad if you are not for the Turnitin app (I am a prof. who grades hundreds of papers).
This version is better than previous ones. I like the summary comment field.
The strikethrough function is really stupid. I can’t believe you have to select a whole line, then reduce it until you have the word or words you want to strike out.
I do not like the automatic capitalization of my comments that I insert in text. Unless it’s a complete sentence, I don’t think I should begin with a capital letter.
As I write this, I think what most annoys me is it keeps crashing on a 2018 iPad with 128 GB of storage — crashes about three times per paper.