2. Turnitin Assignments
• Creating a Turnitin Assignment allows students to upload a
document and through a text-matching process, evaluate
their critical synthesis skills.
• An Originality Report is generated that allows students and
staff to see the sources of supporting evidence and how it has
been incorporated into writing.
• Turnitin has particular strength in supporting formative
feedback – students can be permitted to make multiple
submissions to revise their writing.
• Turnitin can also be used summatively as a way of submitting
a final piece of work.
3. Navigate to a content area
(e.g. Learning Materials).
Click on the Assessments
menu and choose TurnitinUK
Assignment.
5. Set a Start Date
and Due Date.
Add an Assignment title and
a Point value (if appropriate).
Click Optional Settings.
Post date needs only
be set if using
GradeMark.
(See How To guide on
Using GradeMark).
6. Enter any instructions students
may require (due date, format,
etc).
Choose whether submissions
will be accepted after due date
(these will be marked as late).
Choose whether an Originality
Report will be generated and
how many submissions are
permitted (one, multiple).
7. Decide whether
students should
have access to
the Originality
Report.
Choose which
resources the
text will be
matched
against.
Though it is possible to exclude
small matches, bibliographic
detail, etc. from the Originality
Report, it is advisable not at
this stage as a filter can be
applied to toggle these on and
off when viewing the report
itself.
Discussion surrounds submission to a
repository. For formative assessments, no
repository submission is recommended.
For summative, submission is at the
discretion of staff.
9. The Turnitin Assignment will
appear at the bottom of the list
of resources in the content
area. This can be replaced by
clicking and dragging. Students
can identify the Turnitin
Assignment by the grey and
red icon.
10. The Turnitin Assignment can
be edited by clicking the arrow
to the right of the assignment
title and choosing edit.
11. With Edit Mode off, you can
preview what students will see.
Click on the Turnitin Assignment
link.
12. You are able to upload
assignments of students’
behalf. Choose from the list
of enrolled students.
When students log in, they
will see only their own
details.
13. Add a submission title.
Useful information on
file formats, size limits,
etc. is available here.
As well as attaching a file from
your local computer you can
now browse Dropbox and
Google Drive.
14. To access the submissions
student have made through the
Turnitin Assignment, go to the
Control Panel > Course Tools >
TurnitinUK Assignments.
16. This will take you to the
Assignment Inbox where you
can view Originality Reports
and
leave
feedback
for
students.
(See How To guides on Using
Originality Reports and Using
GradeMark).
