--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