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Turnitin Blackboard

- Tutor User Guide


Contents

Introduction ............................................................................................................................................ 3

Creating a Turnitin assignment ............................................................................................................... 3

Submitting Papers ................................................................................................................................... 7

Viewing Submissions ............................................................................................................................... 8

Changing Turnitin settings after the assignment has been created ....................................................... 9

Further information regarding Advanced Settings ............................................................................... 10

Accepted File Types .............................................................................................................................. 12

Using GradeMark .................................................................................................................................. 13

Turnitin Support .................................................................................................................................... 14


Introduction

The Turnitin plugin installed on Blackboard provides tutors with the ability to create Turnitin

assignments from within existing Blackboard courses. Students can upload their

assignments, (without the need to log in at the separate Turnitin website) and view their

originality reports.

Tutors can create assignment areas that students can use in a formative manner to help

them improve their referencing and citation skills.

Creating a Turnitin assignment

It is a good idea to create a separate content page within your Blackboard course so that

you add your Turnitin assignment to a clearly defined area of the course. In addition, adding

the assignment in this way makes it easier to hide the assignment at a later date if

necessary.

Ensure that Edit Mode is on

Click on the + icon to add a new Content Area. Select Content Area.


Enter a name for the content page and tick the box to make it available to users. Now click

on Submit.

Click on your Content page to select it.


You can now create your Turnitin assignment from the Assessments button

Click on Assessments and select Turnitin Direct Assignment

You will now see the Turnitin assignment details window.

Enter a Name and Description for the assignment as below. Under Submission type, choose

File Upload.

The Start Date will by default be the date the assignment is created. Choose a Due date and

a Post Date using the “date picker” icon


N.B. For formative assignments the Post Date is not used and need only be set as a date and

time that occurs after the due date.

Scroll down to the Advanced Assignment Options.

The above settings are recommended for formative assignment submission. Hovering your

mouse over a green question mark will provide further explanation for each

available option. Options highlighted in red need to be changed from the default settings.

Click on Submit.


Submitting Papers

Students can easily submit their paper to the assignment area using their normal university

login credentials. If they have any problems using the interface they are advised to contact

[email protected]

Staff can submit a paper on behalf of a student.

Click on View Assignment

Click on the Submit Tab

mailto:[email protected]


Now choose the student from the list who you are submitting the assignment for.

Enter a Submission Title, browse to select the file and click Submit.

Viewing Submissions

To view submission from students (submitted by either the tutor or the student), click on

Submissions Inbox


Click here to open an originality report

If some of the originality reports are not yet showing, you can click on Refresh Submissions.

N.B. Please note that sometimes it can take up to 24 hours for submissions to show in the

inbox.

Changing Turnitin settings after the assignment has been created

To change submission dates and times, click on Edit Parts


You can then change dates and times of start and due dates and also the grade total. Click

on Update Parts to update the settings

To change advanced settings such as report generation and report matching settings, click

on Modify.

Further information regarding Advanced Settings

The following table provides more information on the advanced assignment options and

their settings.


Advanced Assignment Option Setting explanation

Report Generation Speed Reports can be generated immediately with the first report being final.

Reports can be generated immediately and can be replaced and overwritten until the due date for the assignment

Reports are generated on the due date

Exclude Bibliographic Material Reports will contain matches for Bibliographic material

Reports will not contain matches for Bibliographic material

Exclude quoted material

Quoted material will be checked

Quoted material will not be checked

Exclude small matches Used with the option below small matches can be excluded from the reports

Minimum value to exclude Used with the option above small matches can be excluded by a percentage or a number of words

Students view originality reports Students can view their reports for their submissions

Students cannot view their reports for their submissions

Allow late submissions Students cannot submit after the due date

Students can submit assignments even after the due date has passed

Paper Repository Choose a repository for stored papers – it is recommended that this is left as “Standard Repository”

Check stored student papers Submitted papers will not be compared with other student papers

Submitted papers will be compared with other student papers

Check Internet Submitted papers are not checked against the internet database

Submitted papers are checked against the internet database


Check Journals and Publications Submitted papers are not checked against journals and publications

Submitted papers are checked against journals and publications

Use Grademark The assignment does not make use of grademark for grading and feedback

The assignment does make use of grademark for grading and feedback

Grade Format The grade is shown as a percentage

The grade is shown as a fraction

Reveal Grades Immediately Grades will not be revealed to students on the post date

Grades will be revealed to students on the post date

Ignore Turnitin Grades Grades from Turnitin are not added to the Blackboard gradecentre

Grades from Turnitin are added the Blackboard gradecentre

Modify Instructors This setting allows the assignment owner (the person who created the assignment) to add further instructors

Accepted File Types

Turnitin accepts the following types of files for uploading as an assignment:

Microsoft Word (.doc and .docx) Corel Wordperfect HTML Adobe Postscript Plain Text Rich Text format Portable Document format

The file size limit is 20MB


Using GradeMark

Grademark allows instructors to carry out online marking of student assignments. Tutors

can insert written comments into the student paper and record voice comments as

feedback. It also allows tutors to drag and drop prepopulated feedback tabs into the

assignment, such as improper citation, vague, citation needed etc.

To access grademark select the icon below

You can then use the commonly used tags below to add comments

You can then Save your comment onto the student paper. An overall mark can be inserted

at the top of the page.

You can also record voice comments up to 3 minutes long directly onto the assignment

submission.


Before using Grademark it is recommended that you contact registry ([email protected])

to inform them that you will not be using SOLE for student assignment submission. You are

also advised to contact LTTU ([email protected]) if you have any doubts about the grademark

settings.

Turnitin Support

For help and support with the Turnitin Blackboard plugin, please email [email protected]




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