When using the Turnitin iPad app, what Turnitin refers to as ‘syncing’ doesn’t merge feedback and grades – it overwrites them for that entire submission inbox. Below are some examples of how this could affect you.

• More than one marker for an essay? Syncing from the app actually overwrites any existing marks and comments. In other words, marks will be saved from the last device that marks were synced from. If the marker on the iPad app didn’t have the markings of the other markers synced to the iPad app prior to creating his or her markings, then only the marker who used the iPad app will have their markings synced and saved. If more than one marker is using an iPad app, the one who syncs last overwrites any other markings in the submission inbox. This is because Turnitin is designed for only a single marker at any one time (though there are plans to support multiple marking). W explain further and make some suggestions in the [Using the Turnitin iPad App] section of UCL’s Moodle Resource Centre.
• Sharing marking of a cohort between colleagues? If one of you is using an iPad, this gets complicated because ‘syncing’ to the iPad brings over all the submissions on the assignment, and ‘syncing’ from the iPad overwrites the entire inbox. So if you synced an inbox before your colleague had done their marking, then when you synced your markings back to Turnitin, you’d overwrite any marking they had done with the corresponding unmarked submissions on your iPad.
• Want to mark partly on your iPad and partly on your desktop or laptop? Again, take great care because ‘syncing’ from your iPad will overwrite any existing markings on Turnitin’s server. If those markings were synced to your iPad in the first place, then no problem. But if they weren’t, then you’d lose them.

Please see the [Using the Turnitin iPad App] section of the Moodle Resource Centre for more information about the Turnitin iPad app.