Turnitin Feedback Studio 4+

I keep wanting to give this app a chance, and it keeps wasting my time. It’s full of bugs, will close suddenly in the middle of your using it, and sometimes even fails to sync whole sets of graded papers (forcing the instructor to do the work all over again). Now it’s telling me that a whole set of papers my students have submitted through my learning management system are “not available” and that my comments won’t be viewable till March, 2024—about six months from now, once my class is over. This app is just too difficult to use. What a pity. Turnitin should be ashamed, considering how much money they make and how many instructors use their product. if I could give it less than one star, I would.

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 the app. 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.

The app 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 the app, you can't use the app to grade paper, making the app completely worthless.