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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 (

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) in September 2021, edtech solution Gradescope by Turnitin (

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) 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