EdTech solution Gradescope by Turnitin launches in Japanese
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TOKYO, March 22, 2022 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --
--Popular for helping educators cut grading time in half and have more time for
teaching, the software now supports Japanese-language content
Following the successful pilot program (
) in September 2021, edtech solution Gradescope by Turnitin (
) has now launched its Japanese language interface. In response to feedback
from current Turnitin university clients and the global STEM community,
Gradescope has been fully translated into Japanese, in addition to English,
Korean, Spanish, and Turkish.
Through Gradescope, educators easily build, administer, organize, and grade
handwritten, paper-based, digital, and code assignments. Gradescope supports
in-person, remote, and hybrid learning for all subject areas and assessment
types. The platform has been proven to cut grading time in half by reducing the
administrative work associated with grading, helping educators scale
high-quality courses and spend more time with their students. To increase
evaluation fairness, instructors can enable anonymous grading, which hides or
removes student identifiers during the grading workflow. As Gradescope stands
by itself as an assessment platform or works into the established process,
educators can use their existing content or build new materials in the
platform. Gradescope's innovations and impact have been recognized by Bett
Awards, EdTech Breakthrough, EdTech Digest, SaaS, SIIA CODiE, Tech & Learning,
and more.
"Gradescope has reduced the administrative burden of grading assignments and
increased efficiencies in providing effective feedback to students; this leaves
me more time for research and other academic tasks," expresses Gradescope user
Dr. Daiji Fukagawa, Assistant Professor of Culture and Information Science at
Doshisha University. "I started using Gradescope in the COVID-19 pandemic, and
I am convinced that it is a powerful tool for any class
environment--face-to-face or online--because it supports a wide variety of
assignment formats. Gradescope has always had an excellent interface and is
intuitive to use, but I am glad that it is now available in Japanese so that it
can be used by an even wider range of users without any burden."
"Language localization in education technologies and resources is a key step
towards equity and inclusion in the global academic environment," says Betsy
Matsunaga, Turnitin Regional Director Northeast Asia. "We saw and received
feedback from local universities and educators that there was a need for a
Japanese language version of Gradescope to support their rigorous academic
standards and student learning goals. With the success of our 2021 pilot
program for Gradescope in Japanese, we have now implemented full software
support for Japanese language content. We are grateful to be a small part of
the solution in helping educators manage growing class sizes and coursework.
And with newly found time for direct teacher-student learning from software
efficiencies, we hope that Japan's students can have improved academic
experiences and learn even more meaningfully from their studies--by having
their native Japanese language as an option for their education tools."
Globally, to date, 624 million questions have been graded through the platform.
Further, more than 110,000 educators and 2.7 million students from 2,600
institutions use Gradescope to maximize learning from assessments, faster
grading, and effective feedback.
Japan-based educators and institutions can contact japan-sales@turnitin.com for
a free trial.
Media contact
Motoki Endo,Turnitin Japan, mendo@turnitin.com
About Turnitin
Turnitin is a global company dedicated to ensuring the integrity of education
and meaningfully improving learning outcomes. For more than 20 years, Turnitin
has partnered with educational institutions to promote honesty, consistency,
and fairness across all subject areas and assessment types. Turnitin products
are used by educational institutions and certification and licensing programs
to uphold integrity and increase learning performance, and by students and
professionals to do their best, original work.
Turnitin has offices in Australia, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea,
Mexico, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Sweden, Ukraine, the United Kingdom,
and the United States. Over 16,000 academic institutions, publishers, and
corporations use Turnitin services: Gradescope by Turnitin, iThenticate,
Turnitin Feedback Studio, Turnitin Originality, Turnitin Similarity, ExamSoft,
ProctorExam, and Ouriginal.
SOURCE: Turnitin
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