I don’t usually attend these Turnitin product updates, not out of a lack of interest, just because it’s something that lies more with the other half of the team here at Sunderland, so I leave them to it and to cascade what’s important to the rest of us when required. This one piqued my interest though, after seeing a preview of the new user interface at NELE last week. You can see some of the planned changes to the Feedback Studio and the Similarity Report view above. I asked a question about the lack of audio feedback following NELE, and was told that this, along with new video feedback capabilities are on the roadmap and coming soon.
I was also interested in their new Clarity tool, which will allow students to submit or write their work through a web interface, and get immediate feedback with help on how to improve their writing from Turnitin’s AI chatbot. Very similar to how Studiosity’s Writing Feedback+ service works, so that’s going to be very interesting for me to see how that develops.