All submissions by students are made to assignments in a Turnitin class. Assignments for a given class are created, displayed, and modified from the class homepage.
1. To reach the class homepage, you must firstly access the main homepage by clicking the All Classes tab from the top of any page
2. From the main homepage, the instructor must click on the name of the class to view the class portfolio
Note: An instructor with GradeMark or grade book available, will be required to set a post date on an assignment. This post date and time must be after the start date, but can be set before the due date of the assignment.
3. In the class portfolio, click on the Add Assignment button
4. Select Paper Assignment by clicking on the radio button next to Paper Assignment
The paper assignment type is the base assignment for all other assignments types (PeerMark, Revision, and Reflection). When creating a paper assignment, there are three dates that instructors will need to set: the start date, the due date, and the post date.
5. Click on the Next Step button
6. On the next page, enter the Assignment title.
If you are a grade book user, you may also enter an option point value. This is the maximum number of points a student can receive from an assignment. E.g. 100. By setting a point value, this allows the grade to be set by rubrics (if used) and be sent to the grade book
7. Select the start and due dates 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 from submitting papers, unless late submissions are enabled
7a. GradeMark and Grade book users must select apost datefor the assignment. The post date is the date and time that students can begin viewing the comments and grades that you have left on their papers in GradeMark. The post date can be set before the due date
8. Select whether the assignment will require Originality Reports for submissions or whether any file type can be uploaded. The default option is to Allow only file types that Turnitin can check for originality. For assignments that do not require Originality Reports, you can can select Allow any file type. This allows instructors to leave feedback on every file type.
When creating a paper assignment, the user may select to view and change any of the advanced assignment options. The advanced assignment options are viewed by clicking the + Optional Settings link.
1. Enter special instructions to your students about the assignment
2. Select whether you wish to allow submissions after the due date of the assignment. If set to Yes, students will be able to submit to the assignment after the due date, providing they have not previously made a submission. If set to No, students will not be able to submit after the due date of the assignment.
Select whether you would like Originality Reports to be generated for submissions to the assignment. If you have chosen to set this to Yes, continue to step 2. If you prefer to set this option to No, please skip to step 3.
If the assignment is set to accept any file type Turnitin will only generate Originality Reports for the following file types:
Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, WordPerfect, PostScript, PDF, HTML, RTF, OpenOffice (ODT), Hangul (HWP), Google Docs (submitted via the Google Drive submission option), plain text files.
Select from the dropdown list when, after student submission, that you would like Originality Reports to be generated. There are three options for this assignment setting:
Note: If an instructor chooses to grade without a student submission and the Immediately first report is final is selected, students will not be able to submit to the assignment once the Grading Template is created.
Select whether you would like text appearing in the bibliography, works cited, or references sections of assignments to be excluded from being checked for matches in the Similarity Index when generating Originality Reports. This setting can be overridden in individual Originality Reports.
Select whether you would like text appearing in the quotes of an assignment to be excluded from being checked for matches in the Similarity Index when generating Originality Reports. This setting can be overridden in individual Originality Reports.
The exclude small sources feature works by excluding sources in the source list that are below a set word count or percentage threshold. For example, if the threshold is set to 3%, any 1% or 2% match would be removed from the current report's source list (Match Overview or All Sources). With this feature, you have greater control over sifting out smaller sources, allowing you to focus on larger, more problematic and suspect sources within Similarity Reports.
Once yes has been selected, a yellow box will appear allowing you to set the source exclusion threshold.
This setting can be overridden or adjusted in individual Similarity Reports via the document viewer. You can adjust the exclude small sources assignment setting at any time by clicking the edit icon to the right of the assignment name.
Choose whether you would like your students to view the Originality Reports for their submissions to this assignment. This option gives instructors more flexibility and control when creating assignments.
If the repository options are enabled for an instructor by the administrator, two or four options will appear within the Submit papers to dropdown list. Select from the dropdown list where you would like papers to be submitted to. The settings provide you with the ability to select whether papers are stored in a Turnitin standard paper repository, your institution's paper repository, the student's choice of paper repository, or no repository at all.
The benefit of submitting papers to the standard paper repository is that student papers submitted to the assignment are checked against other institutions' student submissions. However, by selecting to submit papers to the institution's paper repository, this means that the assignment will only be checked against other students' submissions within the institution. If you select no repository, your students' papers will not be stored in the Turnitin standard paper repository or the institution's paper repository, therefore meaning that the papers will not be checked for collusion between students of the same or different institutions.
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The search options setting allows you to select which Turnitin repositories students' submissions will be checked against when processing Originality Reports for papers. This allows an instructor to disregard a source type if the comparison against this type of source is not needed. The similarity index percentage may decrease if a repository option is de-selected.
The available search targets are listed under Search options. The targets with a check mark are those that will be searched. To remove a search target repository, click on the check box to remove the check mark. Clicking on an empty selection box next to the repository will re-add the repository as a search target. This selection will not alter any currently generated Originality Reports or Overall Similarity Index scores.
The currently available search targets are:
Student paper repository - works previously submitted in classes and assignments on Turnitin
Institution paper repository - a repository of student papers for the institution
Current and archived internet - a repository of archived and live publicly available internet pages containing billions of pages of existing content and tens of thousands of new pages added daily
Periodicals, journals, & publications - third party periodical, journal, and publication content including many major professional journals, periodicals, and business publications
If you would like to use a rubric to grade the papers submitted to the assignment, you may use the rubric list drop down menu to select a previously created or imported rubric, or you can launch the rubric manager by clicking on the Launch Rubric Manager link and create a new rubric to attach to the assignment.
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. If this assignment option is not available then the e-rater grammar check is disabled for the account. Contact your Turnitin account administrator to enable the e-rater grammar check for the account.
Note: e-rater grammar and spelling check comments are not automatically shown to the student. These comments are released, with all other comments, on the assignment post-date. Students will also not see e-rater comments if the assignment has not been opened by the instructor and if no comments have been left on the paper. This is to ensure that all comments e-rater has generated have been approved by the instructor.
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.
If any changes have been made to the advanced assignment options, an additional option will be available at the bottom of the options panel. The instructor is asked Would you like to save these options as your defaults for future assignments? Select yes to have all future assignment creations use the advanced assignment options that have been selected as the default setting. Select no to continue with the previous default advanced assignment option settings.
The default settings can be changed at any time when creating a new assignment or updating an existing assignment.
