Help Center: Creating an Assignment in Blackboard
Follow the steps below to create an Turnitin assignment within Blackboard.
How to create an assignment
1. Log in as the Blackboard administrator and click on the course you would like to add an assignment to
2. Click on the Assignments link
3. Click on the Edit View link on the top right of the page
4. Select Turnitin Assignment from the Select: pulldown menu and then click on the Go button. Clicking on the Go button will open the new assignment creation screen within Blackboard
5. In the new assignment screen create a title for the assignment and set a point value for the assignment (optional)
6. Set the assignment start and due dates and times using the date and time pull down menus
7. Click on more options to see the advanced assignment options
8. Select either "immediately first report is final", "immediately (can overwrite reports until due date)" or "on due date" from the "Generate Originality Reports for student submissions:" pull down menu
9. Select whether to "Allow submissions after the due date?"
10. Select which repositories you would like the submissions to the assignment to be searched against. Click within the check box to remove a repository to be searched or place a check mark within a box to add the repository to be searched
11. After reviewing or changing the advanced assignment options click on submit to create the Turnitin assignment
Additional Information
- Instructors using the Gradebook module must also set a point value for assignments
- Instructors using the GradeMark® or Gradebook modules must also set a post date and time for the assignment. The post date is the date upon which all marks and grades for every paper turned into the assignment will become available for the paper's author (the student) to view.
- Only one paper per student can exist for each assignment. Instructors must create a new assignment for every set of papers they would like their students to submit.
- For information on allowing resubmissions, please view our article on setting an assignment to allow resubmissions.
- A resubmission will completely overwrite the original submission. Only one submission at a time can exist for each student in the assignment inbox.
- For information on allowing late submissions, please view our article on allowing submissions after assignment due dates.
- For information on creating "draft" assignments, please view our article on creating "draft" assignments.
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