Blackboard Basic Integration Instructor Manual

Welcome to the Turnitin Blackboard Integration Instructor User 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 tools, and paperless digital grading products to educational institutions around the world.

Turnitin assignments created in Blackboard cannot be updated within Turnitin when accessing the web site directly at www.turnitin.com. Any changes made within www.turnitin.com will not update the Turnitin assignments in Blackboard.

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

Creating a Turnitin Assignment

Turnitin assignments are added from the course control panel. The instructor can open a course’s control panel by clicking the control panel link from within the course web page.

From the control panel, click the Assignments link in the section “Content Areas” to add a Turnitin assignment to a course. A list of current course assignments is shown.

To add a Turnitin assignment follow these steps:

1. After clicking on the edit/view link at the top right of the Assignments page, select Turnitin Assignment using the Select pull down menu and click go

To create a Turnitin revision assignment, follow these steps:

1. From the assignments page click the edit/view link on the top of the page to open up the editing options. In the Select: pull down menu choose Turnitin Assignment and click go
1. From the assignments page click the edit/view link on the top of the page to open up the editing options. In the Select: pull down menu choose Turnitin Assignment and click go

Submitting Papers

Instructors can submit papers to an assignment from their assignments page. To open the assignments page, click the Assignments link on the course home page. A list of course assignments will appear.

Click the view/complete link under the assignment to submit a paper to it. The submission form will open.

Single File Upload

Single file upload is the default option on the submission page and allows the instructors to submit a single paper at a time.

Submitting a paper by file upload:

1. Click the View/Complete link on the Assignments page to submit a paper to the chosen assignment
1. Click on an assignment from the homepage. This will open up a new window, click Submit to open up the Turnitin assignment submission page
1. Click the View/Complete link on the Assignments page to submit a paper to the chosen assignment
1. Click the View/Complete link on the Assignments page to submit a paper to the chosen assignment

   Viewing the Turnitin Assignment Inbox

   Instructors can view the Originality Reports completed for submitted papers by accessing the Turnitin assignment inbox. Click on the control panel link from within the course to open the control panel page. In the control panel, click on the Turnitin Assignments link in the Course Tools section to show the Turnitin assignments for this course.

   Click the view link next to an assignment to access that assignment’s inbox allowing the instructor to see the papers that have been submitted to the assignment.

   Syncing the Class Roster

   Enrolled students will appear in the assignment inbox once they have accessed a Turnitin assignment in the course. To automatically import the student list into the inbox before the students access the assignments or submit papers, an instructor can synchronize the assignment roster. Click on the Roster Sync button in the assignment inbox, which will import a list of all students currently enrolled in the Blackboard course for the assignment. This function can also be used later to remove student users who are no longer a part of the course. All submissions and data for students removed by a Roster Sync will disappear from all Turnitin assignments in the course.

   Warning: Students who are removed by the roster sync function must be re-added to the Blackboard course and the Roster Sync function must be used again to regain access to any submissions, GradeMark commented papers, or other information in the Turnitin assignment for the student.