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Table of Contents

Overview ........................................................................................................................................................... 1

Creating a Turnitin Inbox via External Tools ...................................................................................................... 1

Accessing student papers .................................................................................................................................. 4

Grading Student Papers .................................................................................................................................... 5

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Overview

This guide will help you create a Turnitin submission inbox within Moodle using the External Tool activity.

Creating a Turnitin Inbox via External Tools

Make sure you have editing on and click on Add an activity or resource. From this list you will select

External Tool and click on Add.

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1. From the settings please provide a name for the activity.

2. Under External tool type please select Turnitin Assignment.

3. If you are grading please make sure to select the appropriate maximum number of points under

Grade.

4. Click on Save and Display.

5. From the new window please select the Settings tab.

6. From here you can customize instructions, points, and dates.

7. You can also click on Optional Settings in order to view the rest of the options.

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8. Once you have adjusted your settings students will be able to begin submitting papers. These

papers will appear under the Assignment Inbox tab.

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Accessing student papers

Inside the assignment you will papers under Assignment inbox.

From this assignment inbox you can click on title of the paper, the pencil icon, or the originality percentage in

order to open the Turnitin Viewer.

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From here you can use Originality to view any matches to content found in the paper. You can view the

material as well as the sources for the match. You can also use the GradeMark section in order to provide

comments and grade the paper with new or premade markings. If you want to give the paper a score you can

click on ”--“ on the top right and it will allow you to grade the student.

Grading Student Papers

You can view and grade any submission by click on the name of the submission or clicking on the blue pencil

icon on the right-hand side of the submission. Turnitin automatically saves any comments and grades you add.

1. Orginality/GradeMark/PeerMark tabs.

2. Similarity Percentage.

3. Grade (Click to type in grade and press enter).

4. Comments (drag onto submission to add).

• You may also create your own comments by clicking on the Comment button.

5. Submission info/iPad Access/Download submission.

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6. Comment options and Rubric

From here you can use Originality tab to view any matches to content found in the paper. You can view the

material as well as the sources for the match. You can also use the GradeMark tab in order to provide

comments and grade the paper with new or premade markings. If you want to give the paper a score you can

click on ”--“ on the top right and it will allow you to grade the student, it will immediately save after you press

Enter.