Turnitin Moodle® Direct Integration Administrator User Manual

Updated August 21, 2012 (View PDF version)

Contents

Introduction Downloading the Moodle Direct Code Package
Installation and Configuration
Required PHP settings
Required Moodle setting
Configuration
Troubleshooting
Paper Repository Options
Glossary

Introduction

Welcome to the Turnitin Moodle Direct Integration Manual.

The Turnitin plugin gives users of the Moodle Learning System the ability to use Turnitin products within the Moodle interface. Turnitin provides plagiarism prevention services, paperless digital grading, class management and peer review tools to educational institutions around the world.

Note- The Turnitin plugin is currently compatible with Moodle versions 1.8 to 2.4.

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Downloading the Moodle Direct Code Package

The Turnitin administrator must first configure the Moodle integration before the code packages can be installed. The Turnitin account administrator should log into their Turnitin account at www.Turnitin.com.

To configure and download the Moodle Direct code package, follow these steps:

1. Log in as the Turnitin account administrator at the Turnitin homepage http://www.turnitin.com
2. Click on the "integrations" button for the account. If purchased the "unconfigured" button will appear under the integrations column. If the integration has already been configured click on the "configured" button and skip to step 6. If the integration has not been configured click on the "unconfigured" button
3. Click on "Moodle Direct" to open up the configuration page. Unconfigured platforms will have an unlit status button. Yellow status buttons indicates a partially configured integration. The green status button indicates a fully configured integration
4. Fill out the three required fields:
   • create a shared key containing 8 alphanumerical characters
   • your institution’s IP Address or default IP address: 255.255.255.255
   • an error callback URL or the default url: https://www.turnitin.com/api_error.
     Tip: The shared key is used during the plug-in installation process within Moodle. We recommend making a note of the secret key once it has been entered for quick reference asp
5. Click "Save" to finalize the Moodle Direct configuration.
6. Once the integration has been configured the code packages for Moodle Direct will be available for download
7. Click on the "Download" button to the right of the version of Moodle your institution supports. Save the file in an easy to find location on the computer

Note: Moodle Direct only works with Moodle versions 1.8 to 2.3.

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Installation and Configuration

The activity module is installed in the standard way, instructions on how to install an activity module in Moodle can be found here:

http://docs.moodle.org/en/Installing_contributed_modules_or_plugins.

You must first unzip the plugin that you downloaded before it can be installed. The unzipped file will contain a folder labeled "turnitintool" and a read me file. You will need to copy the "turnitintool" folder onto the Moodle server. Copy it into the base of the moodle modules directory into the "mod" folder.

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Required PHP settings

In order for the module to work correctly you must enable support for cURL in your php.ini file.

To do this you need to locate the following line in their php.ini file:

;extension=php_curl.dll

OR

;extension=php_curl.so

Remove the semi-colon at the start of the line to activate the php cURL extension.

Once you remove the semi-colon the web server service needs to be restarted.

More information on cURL and more detailed instructions for installing it can be found here: http://uk3.php.net/curl

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Required Moodle setting

Within config.php, the default setting for dbpersist needs to be:

e.g. $CFG->dbpersist=false;

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Configuration

Login to Moodle as the Moodle administrator then navigate to /admin to initiate the installation/upgrade process. Once the installation has completed, select "Turnitin Assignment"" within the Module | Activities menu.

Configuring the plug-in

1. Enter the Turnitin Account ID (Required)
2. Enter the Turnitin Secret Key that was set by the Turnitin Administrator (Required)
3. Enter the Turnitin API URL. For UK only Users enter https://submit. ac.uk/api.asp and for all other users enter https://api.turnitin.com/api.asp (Required)
4. Choose whether to use GradeMark by using the drop down menu. If your account would like to use GradeMark select "Yes"
5. Select whether to use Anonymous Marking. Anonymous Marking is only available for TurnitinUK users. The default is "No"
6. Enter a disclaimer/agreement in the text box. Student’s will have to check a box agreeing to this statement before submitting a paper (Required)
7. To stop students being sent an email that enables them to log-in to Turnitin native select "No." The Default is "Yes"
8. Do not select "Yes" for the "Enable Diagnostic Mode" option unless asked to do so by Turnitin support. The default is "No"
9. Click on the "Save Changes" button at the bottom of the screen to save all the entered information

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Troubleshooting

To check the communication with Turnitin click on the "Run Connectivity Test" link.

If you click on the "Run Connectivity Test" link, Moodle will try to access Turnitin. If Moodle successfully connects to Turnitin, you will receive a message that says “Moodle has successfully connected to Turnitin.” If you receive an error message please check the configuration data that was entered and fix any mistakes in the input fields.

The "Show Data Dump" and "Save Data Dump" links are useful for troubleshooting and may be referred to by Turnitin support. The Data dump tracks all Moodle communication with Turnitin. For example, the name and dates of each Turnitin assignment that was created within a course.

The "Unlink Users" link can be used to reset links between Turnitin accounts and Moodle accounts.

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Paper Repository Options

The Turnitin administrator can select the paper repository options within their account to either allow instructors to have access to paper repository assignment options or choose to have all student papers submitted to the standard repository. The Turnitin administrator has three options: "enable instructor standard repository options," "enable instructor expanded repository options," or "submit all papers to the standard repository.""

Paper repository options:

1. Login to Turnitin as the administrator and click on the "edit" icon to the right of the account name
2. Select one of the three options from the "paper repository options:" "enable instructor standard repository options," "enable instructor expanded repository options," or "submit all papers to the standard repository"
3. Click on "submit" in the bottom left corner of the account modification window to save any changes made

Note: If "submit all papers to the standard repository" is selected from the "paper repository options" pull-down menu, all student papers submitted to the account will be stored in the standard paper repository. If "enable instructor standard repository options"" is chosen instructors will be able to set the assignment option to either store student papers within the standard paper repository or to not store the papers in any repository. If "enable instructor expanded repository options"" is chosen, instructors will be able to set an assignment options to store student papers in the standard paper repository, in the institution paper repository, no repository, or to allow students to choose between the standard paper repository and the institution paper repository.

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Glossary

Definitions

account - a Turnitin account allows instructors to use products purchased from Turnitin

account ID - the numeric identification number for a specific account or sub-account

administrator - the controller of a specific Turnitin account. This user type is able to install and configure, activate or deactivate products on an account, change account settings, and add or remove instructors from account access

consortium account - an account type which is the parent for multiple institutional accounts. Consortium accounts do not allow instructors to directly join. Instructors must be added to an institutional or departmental account

GradeMark - a digital grading product offered by Turnitin which allows instructors to place comments and QuickMark editing marks on a submission for students to review. This product also includes standardized rubric scorecards and the ability to share QuickMarkSM standard editing marks and rubric scorecards between instructors on an account via export or via administrators using the libraries sharing feature of the GradeMark digital grading product

homepage - the default login page, which is different based on the selected default user type of the user profile being accessed

instructor - the term used for teachers, tutors, or other student-assisting users added or authorized to join as instructors on a specific Turnitin account. A single person may be joined to multiple Turnitin accounts or sub-accounts using one user profile or separate user profiles. Users may fill more than one user type role on Turnitin

internet archive - Turnitin’s web repository includes inactive or no longer available web pages and copies of pages that have changed over time. This allows Turnitin to search against information that is no longer available or which has changed over time.

libraries - the libraries menu displays the rubrics created by Turnitin or the instructor. For more information about rubrics please view the GradeMark training video or the rubric section of the GradeMark manual available at www.turnitin. com/training.html

log in - the act of an authorized user entering the e-mail address and personal password created for a user profile to enter Turnitin as the user associated with the e-mail address entered

Originality Report - the Originality Report is a flexible document that allows students and instructors to review matches between a submitted work and the repositories scanned by Turnitin. Citations, quotations, and bibliographic material are all scanned against Turnitin’s repositories to determine an overall similarity percentage as well as specific matches to similar text

PeerMark- this product allows students to anonymously or with attribution review submissions made by other students within the course. Students reply to free response and scale questions selected or created by the instructor. Instructors may also comment on the paper using three different commenting tools: inline text tool, highlighter tool, and composition marks. A PeerMark assignment must be based on a normal Turnitin assignment where the student papers are initially submitted

Plagiarism Prevention - this product creates Originality Reports for submissions in assignments on Turnitin. The Originality Reports allow instructors and students to easily determine any problems in citation or referencing and assists instructors in determining the originality of a submitted work

product - a specific service, feature, or group of features offered by Turnitin as part of the purchase of a Turnitin license by an educational customer

proxy server - a proxy server is a server that stands between an institution’s network and the internet. The proxy server passes requests from the institution’s network to places on the internet and returns the responses from the internet to the institution’s network

repository- a set of information of a specific type or types. In the specific context of the Originality Report provided by Turnitin, repository is used to refer to the type of information the submission was evaluated against for direct matching or high levels of similarity. Available repositories include internet, archived internet, periodical/journal/publication information, and previous submissions

shared key - a shared key is the eight digit, alphanumeric code that an institution’s Turnitin account administrator has created with the account’s Turnitin Sales Representative. The shared key is used to verify the integrity of requests sent from the Institution’s Moodle account to the institution’s Turnitin account

student - a user type able to enroll in courses created by an instructor user. Student user profiles can only submit to assignments created by an instructor in a class they are joined to or have been authorized to join

sub-account - an account created beneath a parent account. The Turnitin account tree allows for multiple sub-accounts created under each parent account. Only individual accounts may not create sub accounts. The number of institutional accounts created beneath a consortium account is determined by license purchases

user profile - the user profile is a set of user preferences and information associated with a specific ID within Turnitin. Each user profile requires a unique e-mail address. A specific e-mail address can only be used once within the Turnitin repository. New attempts to create a profile associated with an e-mail address currently existing in Turnitin will not succeed

 

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Turnitin Moodle® Direct Integration Student User Manual

Version: 2.1.0

Updated September 13, 2012 (View PDF version)

Contents

Introduction Submitting a Paper File Types and Size How to Submit a Paper Submission Type Options File Upload Text Submissions Submissions Inbox Opening Originality Reports GradeMark® Glossary

Introduction

Welcome to the Turnitin Moodle Direct Integration Student Manual. This section will educate students on how to submit papers to a Turnitin assignment. Other topics that will be covered are: a walkthrough of the assignment inbox interface, how to view an Originality Report, and how to view GradeMark.

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Submitting a Paper

Student users submit papers to a Turnitin assignment from the Turnitin assignment inbox. To access the assignment inbox, first click on an assignment from the homepage. A new window will open displaying the start, due date, and post date of the assignment. Click on the "My Submissions" tab to submit to the Turnitin assignment.

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File Types and Size

Turnitin currently accepts the following file types for upload into an assignment:

1. Microsoft Word™ (DOC and DOCX)
2. Corel WordPerfect®
3. HTML
4. Adobe PostScript®
5. Plain text (TXT)
6. Rich Text Format (RTF)
7. Portable Document Format (PDF)
8. OpenOffice (ODT)

The file size may not exceed 20MB. Files of larger size may be reduced in size by removal of non-text content or the instructor may be contacted to request multiple assignments to submit the document in sections.

Note: Text only files may not exceed 2 MB.

Note: PDF documents must contain text to be submitted. PDF files containing only images of text will be rejected during the upload attempt. To determine if a document contains actual text, copy and paste a section or all of the text into a plain-text editor such as Microsoft Notepad or Apple TextEdit. If no text is copied over, the selection is not actual text.

Tip: Users submitting scanned images of a document or an image saved as a PDF will need to use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software to convert the image to a text document. Manual correction of the resulting document is highly recommended to fix any errors caused by the conversion software.

Note: Some document formats can contain multiple data types. This includes text, images, embedded information from another file, and formatting. Non-text information that is not saved directly within the document will not be included in a file upload. This includes references to a Microsoft Excel® spreadsheet included within a Microsoft Office Word document.

Note: Users whose files are saved in a file type that is not accepted by Turnitin will need to use a word processing program to save the file as one of the accepted types. Rich Text Format and Plain Text file types are nearly universally available in word processing software. Neither file type will support images or non-text data within the file. Plain text format does not support any formatting, and rich text format supports only limited formatting options.

Tip: When converting a file to a new file format, users should rename their file with a name other than that of the original file. This is suggested to prevent permanent loss of the original formatting or image content of a file due to it being overwritten.

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How to Submit a Paper

To submit a paper to a Turnitin assignment, the student user must upload a file to an existing assignment. Turnitin assignments cannot accept student submissions until the assignment start date and time has passed. Assignments may also reject submissions after the due date and time set by the instructor.

To check the start date and due date information, click on the Turnitin assignment name on the course homepage.

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Submission Types

There are two submission types a student may use to submit a paper: File Upload or Text Submission. An instructor may set up the assignment to require the student to submit in one of the two submission types or let their students decide which submission type they would like to use.

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File Upload

The file upload allows students to submit to the assignment by directly loading the file from their computer.

Warning: Make sure that the file type you are submitting can be accepted by Turnitin.

Note:Users whose files are saved in a file type that is not accepted by Turnitin will need to use a word processing program to save the file as one of the accepted types. Rich Text Format and Plain Text file types are nearly universally available in word processing software. Neither file type will support images or non-text data within the file. Plain text format does not support any formatting, and rich text format supports only limited formatting options.

Submitting a paper by file upload:

1. Click on the Turnitin assignment from the course homepage. This will open up a new window, click on the "My Submissions"" tab to open up the Turnitin assignment submission page
2. If you are given a choice of which submission type to use to submit to the assignment, you will need to select "File Upload."" If the assignment requires you to submit by "File Upload" go to the next step
3. Enter the submission title
4. If there is more than one part for the assignment you will need to select which part you are submitting to from the "Submission Part" pull down menu
5. Click on the "Browse..." button to select the file you would like to submit
6. Before submitting you will need to check the box next to the agreement your institution has provided
7. Click the "Add Submission" button to submit your paper

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Text Submissions

The cut and paste submission option allows users to submit information from non-supported word processors or file types, or to only submit specific parts or areas of a document that may need an Originality Report generated.

Please note that only text can be submitted via the cut and paste method - any graphics, graphs, images, and formatting are lost when pasting into the text submission box.

Submitting a text submission to a Turnitin assignment:

1. Enter the submission title
2. If there is more than one part for the assignment you will need to select which part you are submitting to from the "Submission Part" pull down menu
3. Copy the text you want to submit and paste it within the text box
   Tip: To cut and paste text, highlight the text of a paper in a word processing or text editing program and select "copy" from the edit menu. To transfer the text into your browser, place your mouse cursor in the text box of the submission page and select "paste" from your browser’s edit menu
4. Before submitting you will need to check the box next to the agreement your institution has provided
5. Click on the "Add Submission" button to submit the text to Turnitin

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Submissions Inbox

Once a submission has been made to a Turnitin assignment, the submission inbox will contain the submitted paper. If the instructor has allowed students to view the Originality Report for their paper, a percentage icon will appear once the report has been generated. If the instructor used GradeMark to grade the paper, then once the post date passes, students will see a pencil icon that will open GradeMark when clicked.

The "My Submissions" tab contains the following columns:

Submission: contains the title of the paper submitted and the status of the submission

Submitted: contains the date and time of the submission

Similarity: contains the Originality Report icon for the submission which displays the percentage of text within the paper that matches content in the Turnitin databases

Grade: contains the grade received for the paper and the GradeMark icon. Clicking on the GradeMark icon opens up the graded paper in GradeMark. After the post date of the assignment both the grade for the paper and GradeMark will be available to view.

Feedback: if the instructor has left feedback for your paper, the blue number link will show the number of comments an instructor has made. Click on the blue number to view the instructor’s comment(s).

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Opening Originality Reports

Instructors can choose for each Turnitin assignment whether or not to allow students to view Originality Reports. If a student has been given access to Originality Reports, they can view their report by clicking on an assignment from the homepage. Click on the "My Submissions" tab. In this screen the student can click on the Originality Report icon to view their Originality Report.

For more information about Originality Reports, please click here to view the Originality Report chapter of the Turnitin student manual.

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GradeMark®

To access GradeMark, click on the pencil icon in the Grade column.

For more in depth information on using GradeMark, please click here to view the GradeMark chapter of the Turnitin Student manual.

Please note that not all accounts have purchased the GradeMark product, if GradeMark has not been purchased the Grade column will not contain the pencil GradeMark icon.

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Glossary

account - a Turnitin account allows instructors to use products purchased from Turnitin

account ID - the numeric identification number for a specific account or sub-account

administrator - the controller of a specific Turnitin account. This user type is able to install and configure, activate or deactivate products on an account, change account settings, and add or remove instructors from account access

assignment - Submissions to a class on Turnitin are made to an assignment. Each assignment can allow only a single submission per student user who is enrolled in the class

default submission type - a user preference set by instructor or student users to define which file submission method should be displayed by default for submissions to an assignment in a Turnitin class

download - transmission of a file from Turnitin to the computer of the user selecting to download files). Some users may need to enable file download due to security considerations on the web browser or computer being used

due date - the due date on a Turnitin assignment indicates the date and time of day at which an assignment is due. Submissions after the due date and time may no longer be allowed and will be automatically blocked by the Turnitin system. Only the instructor can enable late submissions on an assignment on Turnitin. The due date must come after the start date and before the post date during assignment creation. The due date and time may be changed by the instructor at their discretion to meet the needs of a class

GradeMark - a digital grading product offered by Turnitin which allows instructors to place comments and QuickMark editing marks on a submission for students to review. This product also includes standardized rubric scorecards and the ability to share QuickMarkSM standard editing marks and rubric scorecards between instructors on an account via export or via administrators using the libraries sharing feature of the GradeMark digital grading product

homepage - the default login page, which is different based on the selected default user type of the user profile being accessed

instructor - the term used for teachers, tutors, or other student-assisting users added or authorized to join as instructors on a specific Turnitin account. A single person may be joined to multiple Turnitin accounts or sub-accounts using one user profile or separate user profiles. Users may fill more than one user type role on Turnitin

internet archive - Turnitin’s web repository includes inactive or no longer available web pages and copies of pages that have changed over time. This allows Turnitin to search against information that is no longer available or which has changed over time.

knowledge base - The knowledge base is an area we have created for our users to search for help or information on specific aspects of using Turnitin. Also available are frequently updated lists of the most common questions we receive

log in - the act of an authorized user entering the e-mail address and personal password created for a user profile to enter Turnitin as the user associated with the e-mail address entered

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)- Optical character recognition software converts a image of text information into an actual text document that can be read and altered by word processing software. Papers or documents transferred into a computer via a scanner require optical character recognition software conversion to be submitted to Turnitin. Turnitin only accepts documents containing actual text data rather than an imaged document or submission. Some scanners offer OCR conversion automatically, but most OCR conversion requires hand correction to resolve any inaccuracies which can cause major changes to the actual content of a document

Originality Report - the Originality Report is a flexible document that allows students and instructors to review matches between a submitted work and the repositories scanned by Turnitin. Citations, quotations, and bibliographic material are all scanned against Turnitin’s repositories to determine an overall similarity percentage as well as specific matches to similar text

Overall Similarity Index - the overall similarity index is a percentage indicating the similarity of the text submitted to information contained in the Turnitin repositories used for comparison on the assignment the submission was made in. This percentage indicates a percentage based on the length of the paper compared to the length of the areas flagged as similar during the comparison

paper - a paper refers to the document or file submitted by a user to an assignment in a class on the Turnitin website

paper ID - the paper ID number is a unique identifier that can be used to refer to a specific paper. The paper ID number can be viewed by accessing the paper in the assignment inbox for instructors. The paper ID number is also available on the paper view page, Originality Report, and GradeMark digital assessment view of the submission

paper ID - the paper ID number is a unique identifier that can be used to refer to a specific paper. The paper ID number can be viewed by accessing the paper in the assignment inbox for instructors. The paper ID number is also available on the paper view page, Originality Report, and GradeMark digital assessment view of the submission

PeerMark- this product allows students to anonymously or with attribution review submissions made by other students within the course. Students reply to free response and scale questions selected or created by the instructor. Instructors may also comment on the paper using three different commenting tools: inline text tool, highlighter tool, and composition marks. A PeerMark assignment must be based on a normal Turnitin assignment where the student papers are initially submitted

Plagiarism Prevention - this product creates Originality Reports for submissions in assignments on Turnitin. The Originality Reports allow instructors and students to easily determine any problems in citation or referencing and assists instructors in determining the originality of a submitted work

post date - the post date of an assignment is set by the instructor during the assignment creation. When the post date and time has passed, students will be able to view GradeMark and GradeBook information on their submissions in this assignment. If the assignment is a Peer Review, students will be able to read the assessments written by their peers after the post date passes. The post date does not control Originality Reports. The post date must come after the start date and due date during assignment creation

product - a specific service, feature, or group of features offered by Turnitin as part of the purchase of a Turnitin license by an educational customer

repository- a set of information of a specific type or types. In the specific context of the Originality Report provided by Turnitin, repository is used to refer to the type of information the submission was evaluated against for direct matching or high levels of similarity. Available repositories include internet, archived internet, periodical/journal/publication information, and previous submissions

resubmit - the act of submitting a new paper in place of an existing submitted paper. Resubmission can only be done if the instructor has set an assignment to allow students to overwrite until the due date and time of the paper, or if the instructor has manually deleted the student’s existing submission in the assignment inbox. This option can only be enabled by the class instructor

start date - a date and time selected by the instructor when creating an assignment. The start date and time must pass before students are able to begin submitting to an assignment. Instructors are not prevented from submitting before the start date. The start date for an assignment must be before the selected due date and post date during assignment creation. This may be updated only by the instructor to meet the needs of a class

student - a user type able to enroll in courses created by an instructor user. Student user profiles can only submit to assignments created by an instructor in a class they are joined to or have been authorized to join

submission - a file or files uploaded by a student or instructor user into an assignment within a Turnitin class. Only a single file per student user can be submitted to an assignment by a student user

submission type - Turnitin offers multiple submission types for students and instructors. Students are able to submit a single file at a time by either single file upload or cut-and-paste submission. Instructors are able to submit files by file upload or text submission

upload (file) - the act of submitting or sending a file into a specific assignment within a Turnitin for use with the Turnitin products selected for the class

user profile - the user profile is a set of user preferences and information associated with a specific ID within Turnitin. Each user profile requires a unique e-mail address. A specific e-mail address can only be used once within the Turnitin repository. New attempts to create a profile associated with an e-mail address currently existing in Turnitin will not succeed

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Turnitin Blackboard® Direct Integration Administrator User Manual

Updated March 26, 2013 (View PDF version)

Contents

Introduction
Downloading the Turnitin Building Block
Paper Repository Options
Installation & Configuration
Turnitin Direct Tools
Glossary

Introduction

Welcome to the Turnitin Blackboard Direct Integration Manual. The Turnitin Building Block extension gives users of the Blackboard Learning System the ability to use Turnitin products within their Blackboard interface. Turnitin provides plagiarism prevention services, class management and peer review tools, and paperless digital grading products to educational institutions around the world.

The Turnitin Building Block is currently compatible with the Blackboard Learning System Enterprise editions 9.1.1+.

This chapter of the integration manual provides step by step instructions for the installation of the Turnitin Building Block into a compatible Blackboard system.

Important information

Before installing Turnitin Direct 20130129 please be aware of the following

To install the latest version you must

• Click "Global Settings" on the building block set up screen
• In the "Global Settings" screen set the Custom Database Objects level to at least the "Prompt each time a Building Block wants to create custom database objects."

The latest version of the Turnitin Direct Building Block makes the transition from an embedded Database to Blackboard's own Database. Because of this, any existing Turnitin Direct assignments you have will need to be migrated to the new location before they are accessible.

To do this:

• After installing 20130129 access the 'Settings' page for the Turnitin Direct Building Block
• Click the link 'Migrate data from courses containing Turnitin Direct assignments'
• Click the button 'Read Legacy Course Batch IDs', which will populate the 'Course(s) to migrate' field
• Click the Submit button and wait for the migration to complete. (This may take some time, depending on the number of courses to migrate)
• As noted on the Migrate page, if you have a large number of courses, it may be best to break this operation into smaller chunks of courses to avoid sustained use of system resources

Please note that once installed, existing Turnitin direct assignments will not be accessible until they have been migrated, so it would be best to perform this upgrade at a suitably scheduled time

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Downloading the Turnitin Building Block

The Turnitin administrator must first configure the Blackboard integration before the Turnitin Building Block can be downloaded and installed. The account administrator should log into their Turnitin account at www.Turnitin.com or www.submit.ac.uk for TurnitinUK users.

To configure and download the Blackboard Direct code package, follow these steps:

1. Log in as the Turnitin account administrator at the Turnitin homepage http://www.turnitin.com or http:// submit.ac.uk for TurnitinUK users
2. Click on the "integrations" button for the account. If purchased the unconfigured button will appear under the "integrations" column. If the integration has already been configured click on the "configured" button and skip to step 6. If the integration has not been configured click on the "unconfigured" button
3. Click on "Blackboard Direct" to open up the configuration page. Unconfigured platforms will have an unlit status button. Yellow status buttons indicates a partially configured integration. The green status button indicates a fully configured integration
4. Fill out the three required fields:
   • create a shared key containing 8 alphanumerical characters
   • your institution’s IP Address or default IP address: 255.255.255.255
   • an error callback URL or the default url: https://www.turnitin.com/api_error. asp or https://submit.ac.uk/api_error. asp for TurnitinUK users
   
   Tip: The shared key is used during the plug-in installation process within Blackboard. We recommend making a note of the secret key once it has been entered for quick reference
5. Click "Save" to finalize the Blackboard Direct configuration.
6. Once the integration has been configured the code packages for Blackboard Direct will be available for download
7. Click on the "Download" button to the right of the version of Blackboard your institution supports. Save the file in an easy to find location on the computer

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Paper Repository Options

The Turnitin administrator can select the paper repository options within their account to either allow instructors to have access to paper repository assignment options or choose to have all student papers submitted to the standard repository. The Turnitin administrator has three options: enable instructor standard repository options, enable instructor expanded repository options, or submit all papers to the standard repository.

Paper repository options:

1. Login to Turnitin as the administrator and click on the "edit" icon to the right of the account name
2. Select one of the three options from the "paper repository options:" enable instructor standard repository options, enable instructor expanded repository options, or submit all papers to the standard repository
3. Click on "submit" in the bottom left corner of the account modification window to save any changes made

Note: If "submit all papers to the standard repository" is selected from the "paper repository options" pull-down menu, all student papers submitted to the account will be stored in the standard paper repository. If "enable instructor standard repository options" is chosen instructors will be able to set the assignment option to either store student papers within the standard paper repository or to not store the papers in any repository. If "enable instructor expanded repository options" is chosen, instructors will be able to set an assignment options to store student papers in the standard paper repository, in the institution paper repository, no repository, or to allow students to choose between the standard paper repository and the institution paper repository.

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Installation & Configuration

For information on using the Turnitin Building Block as an instructor or student, please view the Instructor or Student Blackboard integration user manuals.

Warning: The Turnitin Building Block must be installed by the Blackboard administrator.

To install the Building Block, follow these steps:

1. Log into Blackboard as an administrator user
2. On the administrator home page, click on the "System Admin" tab
3. On the System Admin page, click the "Building Blocks" link in the Building Blocks section
4. Click on the "Installed Tools" link
5. On the Building Blocks page, click the "Global Settings" button at the top of the page
6. In the "Global Settings" screen set the Custom Database Objects level to at least "Prompt each time a Building Block wants to create custom database objects"
7. On the Building Blocks page, click the "Upload Building Blocks" button at the top of the page
8. Click "Choose File" and locate the Turnitin Building Block
9. Click "Submit" to install the Building Block
10. You may be prompted to approve changes to the database, if so, click the "Approve" button

The Turnitin Building Block will appear on the list of installed Building Blocks. Next, the administrator must make the Building Block available so that it can be configured. This is accomplished from the Manage Building Blocks page.

From the manage Building Blocks page, select "Set Available" using the Turnitin Direct Assignment for Blackboard pull down menu. After the Building Block is set to available and has been configured, instructors on the account can begin using the Turnitin assignment type in their courses.
Note: To enable tools such as course recycle you will also have to navigate to System Admin > Tools and enable the options for ‘Turnitin Direct Course Recycle and Relink’. 

Note: If the Turnitin Building Block is removed from "available" status, access to all Turnitin assignments and features for all users of the Building Block on the Blackboard installation will be disabled until the Building Block is returned to "Available" status.

To configure the Building Block, follow these steps:

1. Click the Settings menu item in the Turnitin Direct Assignment for Blackboard pull down menu
2. On the configuration page, enter the following required information: the Turnitin account ID, and the Turnitin Shared Key*
3. Select the Turnitin API URL. For UK only users select https://submit.ac.uk/api.asp and for all other users select https://api.turnitin.com/api.asp
   Note: For information on how to set up your shared secret key please go back and follow the steps under To configure and download the Blackboard Direct code package, follow these steps
4. Choose whether to use GradeMark from the "Enable GradeMark" drop down menu. If your account has purchased GradeMark select "Yes"
5. Choose whether to enable an institutional repository. Only enable this option if you have expanded repository options enabled for your account. Read the Paper Repository Options section for instructions on how to enable expanded repository options
6. Select whether to enable Anonymous Marking. Anonymous Marking is only available for TurnitinUK users. The default is "No"
7. Select whether to enable Translated Matching. (Only enable this if you have Translated Matching enabled on your Turnitin account)
8. Select whether to enable Continuous Submissions.
9. Select whether to use e-rater® grammar check. Only enable this if you have e-rater enabled on your Turnitin account
10. Select whether to enable email notifications. The Default is "Yes." If set to "No," students will no longer receive notification emails from Turnitin (They will, however, still receive submission receipts)
11. (optional) To add a custom, text-only disclaimer that will be shown when users submit papers to Turnitin assignments through Blackboard, enter the text of the disclaimer in the "Notice" field
12. Select the language that will be used within the Turnitin plugin.
13. To add a new language pack click on the "Add" link. To update a language pack click on the "Update a Blackboard Direct Language Pack."
14. Click the "Choose File" button and then locate the language pack. Once the language pack is selected click "Submit."
15. There are two options for the "Default action for copied/imported courses" option: "Relink Turnitin Direct Assignments" or "Recycle Turnitin Direct Assignments."
    The Relink Turnitin Direct Assignments option retains the existing Turnitin class and user submissions when a course is archived or copied that contains Turnitin Direct assignments. Note: This means there will potentially be two courses pointing to the same Turnitin Class / Assignments, meaning any changes or submissions made to one will affect the other. If you simply wish to re-use a class containing Turnitin Direct assignments, please see the Recycle option.
    The "Recycle Turnitin Direct Assignments" option will take the existing Turnitin direct assignment data in a course that is being copied and uses the assignment data to create a new class in Turnitin and recreates all assignments that existed in this course. The original class and submission data is retained in Turnitin but is no longer accessible via Blackboard.
16. Click "submit" to save the configuration

Note:When "Relink Turnitin Direct Assignments" is selected for the "Default action for copied/imported courses" option, if the original course exists that was copied, the relinked assignments on this course will point to the same data in Turnitin. Any changes made in this course will not be reflected in the original and vice versa.

Note:If "Recycle Turnitin Direct Assignments" is selected for the "Default action for copied/imported courses" option, unlike relink, recycle applies to any course containing Turnitin Direct assignments, whether they’ve been copied/ imported or not.

Copying a Course with Turnitin Direct Assignments

Turnitin Direct does not support the ‘Copy into’ method if both courses already contain Turnitin Direct Assignments.

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Turnitin Direct Tools

The Turnitin Direct tools allow the Blackboard administrator to look at Blackboard Direct communication logs and view contents of the embedded database for a course.

The "Turnitin Direct Tools" link is located under the "Tools and Utilities" section of the "System Admin" page.

Clicking on the "Turnitin Direct Tools" link opens up the Turnitin Direct Tools page that displays links for the two tools: "Blackboard Direct Communications Logs" and the "Database Viewer."

Blackboard Direct Communications Logs - can help administrators troubleshoot issues with the Buidling Block.

Database Viewer - This tool can be used to view the data of a particular course in addition to the logs as a means of debugging should an error be encountered.

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Glossary

Definitions

account - a Turnitin account allows instructors to use products purchased from Turnitin

account ID - the numeric identification number for a specific account or sub-account

administrator - the controller of a specific Turnitin account. This user type is able to install and configure, activate or deactivate products on an account, change account settings, and add or remove instructors from account access

assignment - Submissions to a class on Turnitin are made to an assignment. Each assignment can allow only a single submission per student user who is enrolled in the class

building block - a building block is a set of files that can be installed on an institutions Blackboard server to allow users to create and access Turnitin assignments from within Blackboard

class - to allow students to submit files, an instructor must create a class for their students. A class requires a name, a class ID, and a class enrollment password

class portfolio - the class portfolio page is the main view page of a student for a specific class

GradeMark - a digital grading product offered by Turnitin which allows instructors to place comments and QuickMark editing marks on a submission for students to review. This product also includes standardized rubric scorecards and the ability to share QuickMarkSM standard editing marks and rubric scorecards between instructors on an account via export or via administrators using the libraries sharing feature of the GradeMark digital grading product

homepage - the default login page, which is different based on the selected default user type of the user profile being accessed

instructor - the term used for teachers, tutors, or other student-assisting users added or authorized to join as instructors on a specific Turnitin account. A single person may be joined to multiple Turnitin accounts or sub-accounts using one user profile or separate user profiles. Users may fill more than one user type role on Turnitin

internet archive - Turnitin’s web repository includes inactive or no longer available web pages and copies of pages that have changed over time. This allows Turnitin to search against information that is no longer available or which has changed over time.

libraries - the libraries menu displays the rubrics created by Turnitin or the instructor. For more information about rubrics please view the GradeMark training video or the rubric section of the GradeMark manual available at www.turnitin. com/training.html

log in - the act of an authorized user entering the e-mail address and personal password created for a user profile to enter Turnitin as the user associated with the e-mail address entered

OriginalityCheck - this product creates Originality Reports for submissions in assignments on Turnitin. The Originality Reports allow instructors and students to easily determine any problems in citation or referencing and assists instructors in determining the originality of a submitted work

Originality Report - the Originality Report is a flexible document that allows students and instructors to review matches between a submitted work and the repositories scanned by Turnitin. Citations, quotations, and bibliographic material are all scanned against Turnitin’s repositories to determine an overall similarity percentage as well as specific matches to similar text

Overall Similarity Index - the overall similarity index is a percentage indicating the similarity of the text submitted to information contained in the Turnitin repositories used for comparison on the assignment the submission was made in. This percentage indicates a percentage based on the length of the paper compared to the length of the areas flagged as similar during the comparison

product - a specific service, feature, or group of features offered by Turnitin as part of the purchase of a Turnitin license by an educational customer

proxy server - a proxy server is a server that stands between an institution’s network and the internet. The proxy server passes requests from the institution’s network to places on the internet and returns the responses from the internet to the institution’s network

repository- a set of information of a specific type or types. In the specific context of the Originality Report provided by Turnitin, repository is used to refer to the type of information the submission was evaluated against for direct matching or high levels of similarity. Available repositories include internet, archived internet, periodical/journal/publication information, and previous submissions

shared secret key - a shared secret key is the eight digit, alphanumeric code that an institution’s Turnitin account administrator has created. The shared secret key is used to verify the integrity of requests sent from the Institution’s Blackboard account to the institution’s Turnitin account

student - a user type able to enroll in courses created by an instructor user. Student user profiles can only submit to assignments created by an instructor in a class they are joined to or have been authorized to join

user profile - the user profile is a set of user preferences and information associated with a specific ID within Turnitin. Each user profile requires a unique e-mail address. A specific e-mail address can only be used once within the Turnitin repository. New attempts to create a profile associated with an e-mail address currently existing in Turnitin will not succeed

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Turnitin Blackboard® Direct Integration (Beta) Instructor User Manual

Version: 2.1.0

Updated October 31, 2011 (View PDF version)

Contents

Instructor Usage Creating a Turnitin Assignment
Advanced Assignment Options
Assignment Submission Dates
Submitting Papers on Behalf of Students
File Types and Size
Viewing the Turnitin Submissions Inbox
Modify Tab
Originality Reports
GradeMark®
Glossary

Instructor Usage

Welcome to the Turnitin Blackboard Direct Integration Instructor Manual. The Turnitin Direct Building Block extension gives users of the Blackboard Learning System the ability to use Turnitin products within their Blackboard interface. Turnitin provides plagiarism prevention services, class management tools, and paperless digital grading products to educational institutions around the world.

Before an instructor can use the Turnitin Direct Building Block, it must first be installed by the Blackboard administrator.

Once the Building Block is available, instructors can add Turnitin Direct assignments to their course. If the Turnitin Direct assignment type is not available, please contact an administrator for the Blackboard installation for assistance.

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Creating a Turnitin Direct Assignment

Enter a course and click the "Content" link in the sidebar. Then hover over the "Create Assignment" button and select "Turnitin Direct Assignment" from the list.

Note: If "Edit Mode" is off, you can enable it by clicking the "Edit Mode" button in the right corner of the page.

General Turnitin assignment settings:

1. On the assignment creation page, enter the following:
   • assignment name
   • assignment description (2,000 character limit)
2. Select the submission type for the assignment. The default is "Any submission type." "File upload" will require your students to submit a file to the assignment. "Text submission" will require your students to copy and paste their paper in a text box to submit their paper. You can let your students choose which submission type to use by selecting "Any Submission Type"
3. Select the number of parts you want the assignment to have from the "Number of Parts" pull down menu. Each Turnitin assignment in the Blackboard Direct Integration can have multiple parts associated with it. The student has to submit a file to each part to complete the assignment. The default is a one part assignment
4. Enter the point value of the assignment in the "Overall Grade" field. The default is 100
5. (Optional - assignment dates can be adjusted after assignment creation) Select the start date, due date, and post date for the assignment. Specific times are also selected. Students are only able to submit once the "start date" and time has passed. After the "due date" and time, students will be blocked unless late submissions are enabled. In Blackboard, the post date relates to the availability of GradeMark papers only and has no bearing on when grades are posted to the Blackboard Gradebook
6. The "Students view Originality Reports" option of assignment creation provides instructors with the ability to control whether students are allowed to view Originality Reports within each created assignment. Select "yes" to allow students to see the Originality Report for the assignment. The default setting is "no."

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Advanced Assignment Options

When creating a Turnitin assignment you may also wish to modify some of the advanced assignment options.

Report Generation Speed

There are three options for generating Originality Reports for student submissions:

• Generate reports immediately, first report is final - Originality Reports for all submissions will be generated immediately. Students cannot resubmit papers. Submissions must be deleted by the instructor to enable resubmission.
• Generate reports immediately, reports can be overwritten until due date - Originality Reports for the initial submission by each student user to this assignment will be generated immediately. Students may resubmit as often as the student wishes until the assignment due date. Originality Reports for the second or subsequent submission will require a 24 hour delay before the Originality Report begins processing. Only the latest submission is available to the instructor or student. Previous versions are removed. Student submissions will compare against one another within the assignment on the due date and time, which may result in a change in the Originality Report similarity index and results at the due date and time. This option is typically used when students are self-reviewing and revising their submissions and able to view the Originality Report. No resubmissions after the due date and time of the assignment.
• Generate reports on due date - Originality Reports will not be generated for any submission until the due date and time of the assignment. Students may resubmit as many times as needed until the due date and time without receiving reports. Resubmissions may not be made after the due date and time of the assignment.

Exclude bibliographic material

This feature of assignment creation provides instructors with the ability to control the option whether bibliographic material will automatically be excluded from Originality Reports. The default is "no." Bibliographic materials can also be included and excluded when viewing the Originality Report. This setting cannot be modified after the first paper has been submitted.

Exclude quoted material

This feature of assignment creation provides instructors with the ability to control the option whether quoted material will automatically be excluded from Originality Reports. The default is "no." Quoted materials can also be included and excluded when viewing the Originality Report. This setting cannot be modified after the first paper has been submitted.

Exclude small matches?

This feature of assignment creation provides instructors with the ability to automatically exclude small matches from all Originality Reports generated within this assignment. To exclude small matches select either the "Exclude by word count" or "Exclude by percentage" options from the "Exclude small matches by" drop down menu.

Enter into the "Minimum value to exclude" field the numerical value for small matches that will be excluded from Originality Reports in this assignment.

Allow Students to see Originality Reports

This feature of assignment creation provides instructors with the ability to control the option to allow students to see Originality Reports within each created assignment. This option gives instructors more flexibility and control when creating assignments. Select "yes" to allow students to see the Originality Report for the assignment. The default setting is "no."

Enable e-rater® grammar check

This feature of assignment creation provides instructors with the option to enable the e-rater grammar and spelling check for all submissions to the assignment. When enabled student submissions receive detailed grammar feedback in GradeMark automatically through the e-rater technology. Select "yes" to enable the e-rater engine for the assignment from the drop down menu. If this assignment option is not available then the e-rater grammar check is disabled for the account. Contact the Turnitin account administrator to enable the e-rater grammar check for the account.

(Optional) Select the ETS handbook level from the drop down menu. The ETS handbooks provide students with in depth information about the grammar errors the e-rater technology finds in their paper.

Select the dictionary used for the spelling check.

The "Categories enabled by default" option allows instructors to choose which categories of feedback are enabled when viewing assignment submissions in GradeMark. The default is to show the feedback for every category.

Late Submission

An instructor can enable submissions after the due date and time. To enable late submissions, use the "Allow submissions after the due date?" option and select "yes." The default setting is "no." When enabled, students will be able to submit papers after the due date and time has passed as long as that student has not already submitted a paper to the assignment.

Use anonymous marking

If anonymous marking is enabled for an account the "Use Anonymous Marking" option will be editable within the advanced assignment options. To enable anonymous marking for an assignment select "yes" from the "Use Anonymous Marking" drop down menu. When anonymous marking is enabled, the author’s name will be anonymous until the post date of the assignment or when an instructor chooses to reveal the author’s identity. If anonymous marking is enabled it cannot be disabled.

Paper Repository

The Paper Repository drop down may have three options: to store papers in the Standard Repository, to store papers in the Institutional Repository, or to not store the papers in a repository. The default is to store the student papers in the standard repository. If the Institutional Repository is not available this means that your Turnitin account administrator has not selected advanced repository options for your account.

Repository Sources for Originality Reports

The instructor is able to select the available repository sources to compare submissions in the assignment against. This allows an instructor to disregard a source type if the comparison against this type of source is not needed. There are three database search options: "Check stored student papers," "Check Internet," and "Check Journals and Publications." The default for each of these search options is set to "Yes."

Continuous Submission

To create an assignment that allows students to submit as many times as they need select "yes" from the "Continuous Submissions" drop down menu. If set to "yes" the following advanced assignment options are automatically changed: grades are revealed immediately, resubmissions are unlimited and generate reports immediately, late submissions are allowed, assignment dates are not displayed to students, and the due date and post date are set to the maximum allowed by the class length.

Use GradeMark

To use GradeMark the online paperless grading tool to grade the student submissions select "Yes" from the drop down menu.

Reveal Grades Immediately

To reveal grades to students immediately after grading select "Yes" from the drop down menu.

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Assignment Submission Dates

After clicking "Create Assignment" you will be taken to the assignment summary page.

All assignment dates relating to this assignment are shown on the Summary page.

To change any of these dates click the pencil icon on the assignment part you wish to edit.

By clicking on the calendar icon the date/time selector will appear. You can use this to edit the Start, Due and Post dates.

Start Date
The Start Date defines the earliest time a student can make a submission to the assignment part.

Due Date
This is the final date by which the student should have submitted their assignment. If Late Submissions is enabled then submissions made after the due date will be marked as late.

Post Date
This is the date when marks/grades will be made available to students.

If anonymous marking is enabled (UK only) this is also the date when marks/grades will be shown to tutors in the Grade centre. (They will, however, appear in the assignment’s Submissions Inbox as soon as they are graded, as the student name remains anonymous until the Post Date.)

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Submitting Papers on Behalf of Students

To submit a paper to the Turnitin assignment, first click the "View Assignment" link in the list of assignments. Within the Turnitin assignment click the "Submit" tab.

If "Any Submission Type" was selected during Turnitin Assignment creation in the general settings the submission page will require you to select a submission type. If a specific submission type was selected then the instructor will have to complete the remaining fields before the submission can be made.

Submitting a paper to a Turnitin assignment:

1. Select the student from the "Students Name" drop down menu who you will be submitting on behalf of
2. Enter the submission title
3. Select the part of the assignment you are submitting the paper to from the drop down menu. If there is only one part to the Turnitin assignment a drop down option will not appear
4. Click on the "Choose File" button to select the file you would like to submit
5. Click on the "Submit" button to submit the file

There are two ways for an instructor to submit papers to a Turnitin Assignment:

1. file upload - a single file submission selected by the instructor
2. text submission - submission of text copied and pasted into a Turnitin submission box. May be used to submit from a file format that is not accepted. No images of non-text information can be copied and pasted - only plain text can be accepted

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File Types and Size

Turnitin currently accepts the following file types for upload into an assignment:

• Microsoft Word® (DOC and DOCX)
• Corel WordPerfect®
• HTML
• Adobe PostScript®
• Plain text (TXT)
• Rich Text Format (RTF)
• Portable Document Format (PDF)

The file size may not exceed 20 MB. Files of larger size may be reduced in size by removal of non-text content. Files that are password protected, encrypted, hidden, system files, or read only files cannot be uploaded or submitted to Turnitin.

Note: Text only files may not exceed 2 MB.

Note: PDF documents must contain text to be submitted. PDF files containing only images of text will be rejected during the upload attempt. To determine if a document contains actual text, copy and paste a section or all of the text into a plain-text editor such as Microsoft Notepad or Apple TextEdit. If no text is copied over, the selection is not actual text.

Tip: Users submitting scanned images of a document or an image saved as a PDF will need to use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software to convert the image to a text document. Manual correction of the resulting document is highly recommended to fix any errors caused by the conversion software.

Note: Some document formats can contain multiple data types. This includes text, images, embedded information from another file, and formatting. Non-text information that is not saved directly within the document will not be included in a file upload. This includes references to a Microsoft Excel® spreadsheet included within a Microsoft Office Word document.

Note: Users whose files are saved in a file type that is not accepted by Turnitin will need to use a word processing program to save the file as one of the accepted types. Rich Text Format and Plain Text file types are nearly universally available in word processing software. Neither file type will support images or non-text data within the file. Plain text format does not support any formatting, and rich text format supports only limited formatting options.

Warning: Users who are converting to a new file format will need to save their file with a name different than the original. Any file should be saved with a new file name when converting to plain text or rich text formats to prevent permanent loss of the original formatting or image content of a file.

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Viewing the Turnitin Submissions Inbox

Instructors can view the Originality Reports completed for submitted papers by accessing the Turnitin assignment "Submissions Inbox." To do this: Click on the "Submissions Inbox" tab.

The "Submissions Inbox" displays a list of papers, grades and the Overall Similarity Index associated with each student who has made a submission to the assignment.

Note: If the assignment has multiple parts you will need to click the expand icon for each student, or click the "Show all" link at the top left of the inbox.

The columns headings in the assignment inbox are:

Student Submission - a column containing the names and assignment title for BlackBoard students in the assignment. Clicking on the name takes you to the BlackBoard user page for that student. If a student is enrolled in the Turnitin system but not enrolled in the BlackBoard system the student is listed as "Non BlackBoard Student." If the student is subsequently enrolled in BlackBoard the submission will be linked to the student account automatically. The number of submissions made by a student is included in brackets.

Date Submitted – this column of the report contains the date and time of the submission. Late submissions are color coded red.

Similarity - this column contains a percentage indicating the overall similarity of the paper to information in the Turnitin repositories, 100% being ‘fully similar’, 0% indicating ‘no similarity’. Clicking on the Similarity "%" icon opens the Originality Report.

Grade – this column contains a grade and a pencil icon for editing the grade or if GradeMark has been enabled the column indicates if GradeMark is available. A GradeMark icon shows what papers can be accessed in GradeMark. No icon will appear if a student has not submitted a paper to the assignment or if GradeMark has not been purchased for the account. If the icon is available, click on the comment icon to open a GradeMark window.

Download icon - a paper with a down arrow icon located to the right of the submission. Click on the icon to download a copy of the submission.

Delete icon - a trash bin icon located to the right of the submission. Click on the icon to delete the submission from the inbox.

Refresh Submissions - this option checks with Turnitin to see if more submissions have been entered or if new Originality Reports are available.

Note: This may take some time if there are a large number of users enrolled.

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Modify Tab

The "Modify" tab allows you to edit all available assignment options shown during the assignment creation process. For details on each of these options please refer to pages 5-8.

There are additional options not shown during the creation process, these are:

Turnitin Tutors - click on the "Modify Instructors" link to add or remove instructors from your class

User Enrollment - click on the "Enroll all users" link to enroll all the students currently in the course to the corresponding Turnitin class

Submissions List – by default only users who have made submissions to the assignment are shown in the Submissions Inbox. If you select "List students that have not made any submissions" then all students enrolled on the course will be listed in the Submissions Inbox.

Auto Refresh Grades - by default the system will automatically attempt to refresh originality scores and grades, but this can be turned off if the instructor would rather do it manually. Turning on "Auto Refresh Grades" may cause slowdowns in assignments with many submissions

Grade format - this setting allows the instructor to select either a % score for grades (the default) or a fraction (xx/100) for the display of grades.

Grade Export and Bulk Download

Once an instructor has finished grading a Turnitin Direct assignment part, the student grades for the assignment can be exported to excel. From the content page click on the assignment name to access the "Summary" page of the assignment. To export the student grades for the assignment part click on the excel icon to export the assignment grades.

To bulk download the papers submitted to the assignment click on either the word doc or pdf icons to download the papers to the selected format.

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Originality Reports

For more information about Originality Reports, please click here to view the Originality Report chapter of the Turnitin Instructor Manual.

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GradeMark®

For more in depth information on using GradeMark please click here to view the GradeMark chapter of the Turnitin Instructor manual.

Please note that not all accounts have purchased the GradeMark product, if GradeMark has not been purchased. the grademark column will be blank where the GradeMark icon should appear.

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Glossary

Definitions

account - a Turnitin account allows instructors to use products purchased from Turnitin

account ID - the numeric identification number for a specific account or sub-account

administrator - the controller of a specific Turnitin account. This user type is able to install and configure, activate or deactivate products on an account, change account settings, and add or remove instructors from account access

assignment - Submissions to a class on Turnitin are made to an assignment. Each assignment can allow only a single submission per student user who is enrolled in the class

building block - a building block is a set of files that can be installed on an institutions Blackboard server to allow users to create and access Turnitin assignments from within Blackboard

class - to allow students to submit files, an instructor must create a class for their students. A class requires a name, a class ID, and a class enrollment password

default submission type - a user preference set by instructor or student users to define which file submission method should be displayed by default for submissions to an assignment in a Turnitin class

digital receipt - the digital receipt is a confirmation of a successful paper submission to a Turnitin assignment. The digital receipt contains the unique paper ID number, user name, submission date and time, class name, assignment title, and a copy of the submitted work. The digital receipt is shown on-screen after submission and a copy is sent by e-mail to the user at the e-mail address provided as the user login name. This e-mail is sent by noreply@turnitin.com or jisc_help@turnitin.com for UK users and spam filters should be checked to ensure they do not block users from receiving this e-mail

download - transmission of a file from Turnitin to the computer of the user selecting to download files). Some users may need to enable file download due to security considerations on the web browser or computer being used

due date - the due date on a Turnitin assignment indicates the date and time of day at which an assignment is due. Submissions after the due date and time may no longer be allowed and will be automatically blocked by the Turnitin system. Only the instructor can enable late submissions on an assignment on Turnitin. The due date must come after the start date and before the post date during assignment creation. The due date and time may be changed by the instructor at their discretion to meet the needs of a class

export (stats) - downloading a copy of account statistics in a Microsoft Excel® format to a user’s computer

GradeMark - a digital grading product offered by Turnitin which allows instructors to place comments and QuickMark editing marks on a submission for students to review. This product also includes standardized rubric scorecards and the ability to share QuickMarkSM standard editing marks and rubric scorecards between instructors on an account via export or via administrators using the libraries sharing feature of the GradeMark digital grading product

homepage - the default login page, which is different based on the selected default user type of the user profile being accessed

instructor - the term used for teachers, tutors, or other student-assisting users added or authorized to join as instructors on a specific Turnitin account. A single person may be joined to multiple Turnitin accounts or sub-accounts using one user profile or separate user profiles. Users may fill more than one user type role on Turnitin

internet archive - Turnitin’s web repository includes inactive or no longer available web pages and copies of pages that have changed over time. This allows Turnitin to search against information that is no longer available or which has changed over time.

libraries - the libraries menu displays the rubrics created by Turnitin or the instructor. For more information about rubrics please view the GradeMark training video or the rubric section of the GradeMark manual available at www.turnitin. com/training.html

log in - the act of an authorized user entering the e-mail address and personal password created for a user profile to enter Turnitin as the user associated with the e-mail address entered

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) - Optical character recognition software converts a image of text information into an actual text document that can be read and altered by word processing software. Papers or documents transferred into a computer via a scanner require optical character recognition software conversion to be submitted to Turnitin. Turnitin only accepts documents containing actual text data rather than an imaged document or submission. Some scanners offer OCR conversion automatically, but most OCR conversion requires hand correction to resolve any inaccuracies which can cause major changes to the actual content of a document

OriginalityCheck - this product creates Originality Reports for submissions in assignments on Turnitin. The Originality Reports allow instructors and students to easily determine any problems in citation or referencing and assists instructors in determining the originality of a submitted work

Originality Report - the Originality Report is a flexible document that allows students and instructors to review matches between a submitted work and the repositories scanned by Turnitin. Citations, quotations, and bibliographic material are all scanned against Turnitin’s repositories to determine an overall similarity percentage as well as specific matches to similar text

Overall Similarity Index - the overall similarity index is a percentage indicating the similarity of the text submitted to information contained in the Turnitin repositories used for comparison on the assignment the submission was made in. This percentage indicates a percentage based on the length of the paper compared to the length of the areas flagged as similar during the comparison

paper - a paper refers to the document or file submitted by a user to an assignment in a class on the Turnitin website

paper ID - the paper ID number is a unique identifier that can be used to refer to a specific paper. The paper ID number can be viewed by accessing the paper in the assignment inbox for instructors. The paper ID number is also available on the paper view page, Originality Report, and GradeMark digital assessment view of the submission

PeerMark - this product allows students to anonymously or with attribution review submissions made by other students within the course. Students reply to free response and scale questions selected or created by the instructor. Instructors may also comment on the paper using three different commenting tools: inline text tool, highlighter tool, and composition marks. A PeerMark assignment must be based on a normal Turnitin assignment where the student papers are initially submitted

post date- the post date of an assignment is set by the instructor during the assignment creation. When the post date and time has passed, students will be able to view GradeMark and GradeBook information on their submissions in this assignment. If the assignment is a Peer Review, students will be able to read the assessments written by their peers after the post date passes. The post date does not control Originality Reports. The post date must come after the start date and due date during assignment creation

product - a specific service, feature, or group of features offered by Turnitin as part of the purchase of a Turnitin license by an educational customer

repository- a set of information of a specific type or types. In the specific context of the Originality Report provided by Turnitin, repository is used to refer to the type of information the submission was evaluated against for direct matching or high levels of similarity. Available repositories include internet, archived internet, periodical/journal/publication information, and previous submissions

resubmit - the act of submitting a new paper in place of an existing submitted paper. Resubmission can only be done if the instructor has set an assignment to allow students to overwrite until the due date and time of the paper, or if the instructor has manually deleted the student’s existing submission in the assignment inbox. This option can only be enabled by the class instructor

start date - a date and time selected by the instructor when creating an assignment. The start date and time must pass before students are able to begin submitting to an assignment. Instructors are not prevented from submitting before the start date. The start date for an assignment must be before the selected due date and post date during assignment creation. This may be updated only by the instructor to meet the needs of a class

student - a user type able to enroll in courses created by an instructor user. Student user profiles can only submit to assignments created by an instructor in a class they are joined to or have been authorized to join

sub-account - an account created beneath a parent account. The Turnitin account tree allows for multiple sub-accounts created under each parent account. Only individual accounts may not create sub accounts.

submission - a file or files uploaded by a student or instructor user into an assignment within a Turnitin class. Only a single file per student user can be submitted to an assignment by a student user

submission type - Turnitin offers multiple submission types for students and instructors. Students are able to submit a single file at a time by either file upload or cut-and-paste submission

upload (file) - the act of submitting or sending a file into a specific assignment within a Turnitin for use with the Turnitin products selected for the class

user profile - the user profile is a set of user preferences and information associated with a specific ID within Turnitin. Each user profile requires a unique e-mail address. A specific e-mail address can only be used once within the Turnitin repository. New attempts to create a profile associated with an e-mail address currently existing in Turnitin will not succeed

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