Elearning Tool Review—Grademark for Hassle-Free Checking and Grading

Teachers are joining the digital age and now prefer the submission of written work in digital form instead of printed hard copies. In the past, checking and grading are two of the things teachers find the most wearisome and tiring of all their responsibilities. But with the help of elearning tool Grademark from Turnitin.com, checking papers have never been more convenient and easier!

Turnitin.com is a subscription-only suite of tools that provide services for plagiarism detection, work submission management, digital grading, and peer review or commenting. Subscribing is necessary in order for the teacher and students to enjoy the benefits of using the elearning tools and services. Grademark is one of its add-on components.


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Turnitin has become part of campus culture all over the country, and faculty members are simply over the moon about it. According to them, one of the cleverest features they enjoy is how it deters student from plagiarism. Students have been forced to work well and genuinely exert effort on the quality and authenticity of their work considering that their paper will be submitted through a service that has anti-plagiarism tools. However, to some, the changes in students are more important. By having to submit through turnitin.com, students became more responsible since they have to upload their work at a set due date.

Grademark gives teachers or instructors the opportunity to grade and comment on student work submissions through a full-featured digital environment. The feature that makes it a truly reliable tool are the following: it allows inline highlighting of text, marginal commenting, predefined palettes for inline comments, standard proofreading marks, punctuation and common grammatical errors, user-defined palettes for inline comments, a generous space for numerous general comments, and user-defined rubrics.
All in all, I think that this elearning tool is definitely something significant both online, and in a traditional classroom setup. It provides instructors with ease and convenience and helps them to cut down on lost time grading mountains of hard copies of paperwork.

Review: The Crane Barbados Travel Hotels

The Crane is one of the swankiest Barbados travel hotels available in the island. This hotel is set on the very well known Crane Beach which is in front of the perfectly surreal azure sea; this is also the Caribbean's very first hotel and resort complex. It was built way back in 1887. But now, the hotel is fully refurbished, restored, and also expanded. It is undoubtedly a one of a kind place where the ambiance is both elegant and tropical. The facilities of the hotel are top notch and guest feel safe in their privacy. There is really nothing bad that once could say about the hotel as well as the beach resort. But there is something that can be said regarding the service.

There are a lot of people who could easily complain about the service of this most private of Barbados travel hotels. And the same could be said about my own personal experience in the island. The people seemed to be on the rude side and could not care less. In our experience, the room attendant that was tasked to cleaning our room only cleaned it on the fourth day. And she even had to complain about changing the bed sheets which was her job anyway. And there were also one attendant in the beach who seemed to have been so passionate about being whiny. It felt like asking him to kindly do a simple task like ordering a couple of drinks were equivalent to making him walk through a bed of burning coals. Another really bad thing about the resort was that there were so many shady people near the beach. There were actual drug dealers there that always wanted to offer me whatever smack he was selling. Of course this type of thing is not uncommon, but the resort should at least have some security. I mean, I was not asked once but three times if I “wanted to party.” No, just because I am a young tourist does not automatically make me a junkie.