Assignments – How to Setup Turnitin

There are bugs within D2L’s assignment tool when using Turnitin (TII). Turnitin will not override D2L’s assignment tool settings but depending on the assignment configuration, Turnitin’s settings can be overwritten. D2L and Turnitin are aware of the below bugs. There is no resolution date.

List of Bugs:

1. Collusion checking (comparing student papers in the assignment folder against each other) does not function.
2. If the assignment is set to “All submissions are kept” and TII is set to “Generate reports immediately (students can resubmit until due date) –After 3 submissions, reports generate after 24 hours.”, TII generates reports immediately for an unlimited number of submissions.
3. If the assignment is set to “All submissions are kept” or “Only the most recent submission is kept”, the assignment will allow unlimited submissions and reports if TII is set to “Generate reports immediately (students cannot resubmit)”. Each submission will either be kept or only the most recent depending on the assignment setting.
4. If the assignment is set to “Only the most recent submission is kept” and TII is set to “Generate reports immediately (students can resubmit until due date) –After 3 submissions, reports generate after 24 hours, for each new submission, the previous report is overwritten and a new report is immediately generated (beyond the 3-submission limit).

Step-By-Step Instructions

1. Go to the Assignments tool in your course and either edit an existing assignment folder or create a new one.
2. Enter all the required information you would normally enter.
   • For help with the basics, here’s the Assignment job aid from the Ed Tech HELP! Centre (Learning Hub homepage).
   • Please ensure you are comfortable with the basics of the Assignment tool before moving on.
3. Decision Point:
   • • As part of your regular assignment setup, you need to decide how you want to allow submissions. We touched on the implications for Turnitin earlier in this tutorial.
     • You’ll recall how this decision will control if students are able to submit prior to marking as part of their own self-improvement.
     • Example: The following, along with a Due Date, means that your students will be able to submit as often as they like to check their work through Turnitin prior to the due date. On that date, you will have their most recent submission to mark.

   

4. Complete the regular assignment setup, select Evaluation & Feedback > Manage Turnitin

    

5. Check Enable Originality Check for the folder to activate Turnitin for this assignment.
6. Decision Point:
   • If you want students to be able to see their own Similarity Report, check the Display box.
7. Frequency:
   • All submissions, or just the ones you choose.
   • Recommendation: All, for fairness
8. Expand More Options in Turnitin and you will get a pop-up window. Expand the Optional Settings. A Turnitin configuration page will open to complete the task.
   
9. Decision Point – Submit papers to:
   1. Standard paper repository – to the master Turnitin database for comparative use by any Turnitin user in the future.
   2. Institutional paper repository – archived in BCIT’s secured repository for comparative use just within BCIT in the future.
   3. Do not store the submitted papers
   • We strongly recommend against using the Standard option for any student work that may include a name or any identifying information of any party.
   • If you plan to deliver the same, or similar, assignment in subsequent years, we suggest you use the Institutional option.
   • Note: This feature does not constitute ownership of the work or the intellectual property. This archive is only to enable future submissions to be compared to this anonymous document by the automated system.
10. Allow submissions of any file type unless you have required a specific file type in your assignment details. Note: .exe files are not permitted for upload to BCIT servers due to the risks they pose.
11. Allow late submissions, or not, based on the dates setup in the main assignment restrictions tab.
12. Enable grammar checking if this is a gradable outcome of your course.
13. Compare against. We recommend you accept the default options (all four) unless you have a reason not to:
    • Student paper repository – the Turnitin master repository
    • Institution student paper repository – just BCIT’s submitted work (will build over time)
    • Current and archived web site content
    • Periodicals, journals and publications
14. Decision Point – Generate Similarity Reports for student submissions:
    1. Immediately upon submission, student can’t resubmit.
    2. Immediately upon submission, student can resubmit until due date.
    3. After the due date/time.
    • The above options are fairly self-explanatory.
15.  Allow student to view Similarity Reports. Keep in mind your previous decisions about using this as a learning opportunity either before you mark the assignment, or even after so they can see where they went wrong.
16. The next three options cover types of content you may wish to exclude from review and reporting. Note the default for these is to exclude all three. You’ll have to deactivate if you want these areas reviewed.
    

Small match exclusion type – use this area to define what you want for “small” if selected above.

• Turnitin would prefer not to report on small percentages of similarity or cases where a few words are similar.
• This would be a common case for industry specific terminology where all submitted works have to use industry standards.
• This setting enable you to set the threshold for the Exclude small sources feature.

You’re doing well, one more . . .

Additional Settings. Luckily, once you settle on a template, you can save it for your future use.

DON’T FORGET TO SUBMIT