Submitting and Taking Assessments

Electronic Submission Including Turnitin

For online coursework submission, the School will use Blackboard and Turnitin. For information and support regarding Blackboard please

visit the following link. For information and support regarding Turnitin please visit the following link.

Physical submission

Occasionally you will be instructed to submit assessed work physically by taking it in person to the School reception. Note that the appropriate submission method for an assessment is always stated in the relevant module outline.

Computer Generated Work

With increasing amount of work being generated on computer, the School has agreed the following guidelines for the submission of such work.

• You must ensure that your work is backed up on a regular basis. Extensions on the grounds of lost data or crashed computer will only be granted in cases where the loss of data was unavoidable and where the reasons for this are independently verified.

• The best places to save your files are in your University Filestore, or Google Drive. You automatically get 2GB of storage in your own individual university filestore and you can request more if you need it. As we work with Google to provide various services, such as Google Mail and Calendar, University of Sheffield students also get 30GB of storage free, which is twice as much as you would normally get.

• It is your responsibility to ensure that you leave enough time for the printing of computer generated work, and ensure that the relevant plotter/printer will output your work. Except when School plotters or printers break down, extensions on the grounds of printer queues being too long, the plotter did not take my file etc will not be granted.

• USB memory sticks and other removable storage devices are useful for moving files around but again, they’re not reliable for long-term storage. They can and do break and get lost, so make sure this isn’t your only copy of your work. Don’t leave external hard drives and memory sticks connected to your computer either - if the computer gets stolen or attacked by a virus, they will be affected too.

• You must always submit enough printed work for the examiners to be able to understand the essential elements of your scheme. Solely virtual submissions may not be sufficient (unless specifically stated). If in doubt as to what will be required, ask your Tutor. Full guidance on how to safely save and store your files can be found here.