Instructors can view the Originality Reports completed for submitted papers by accessing the Turnitin assignment inbox. Either click on the Assignments link in the Activities section on the homepage or click on the assignment title on the homepage.
Clicking on the Assignments link will open up the Assignments page. To view the Turnitin assignment inbox click on the view # submitted assignments link under the Submitted column to view the submissions for a specific assignment. If you clicked on the assignment name from the hompage click on the View # submitted assignments on the screen.
The assignment inbox is a sorted list of columns containing information regarding submissions in an assignment. The assignment inbox can be organized by any of the criteria listed with a downward pointing arrow to the right - for example, clicking on the column heading name of author will sort the contents of the assignment box by author last name from A to Z. Clicking the column heading again will sort it again by the reverse of the criteria, from Z to A.
The columns headings in the assignment inbox are:
The assignment inbox also contains a number of items in the assignment inbox panel at the top of the assignment inbox. See the Organizing the Assignment Inbox section for more information on these functions. The items are:
all papers, marked papers, viewed papers, new papers - allows an instructor to select which folder of an assignment inbox to view. By default, all papers are in the new papers folder. The available folders are all papers, marked papers, viewed papers, and new papers. Papers can be moved between folders in the assignment inbox by using the move to function. Papers only can be placed in a single folder. Selecting a folder vwill display only that folder unless all papers is selected, which shows every submission in an assignment
submit button - allows an instructor to begin submitting a paper or papers to this assignment
delete, download, and move to - these buttons perform the selected action on papers which have a check mark added in the box to the left of the author name
page - if there is more than one page to an assignment inbox, click on the page number to move between the pages of the assignment inbox and view the submissions on the pages
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 link in the assignment inbox, which will import a list of all students currently enrolled in the Moodle 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 Moodle 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.
Every paper submitted to an assignment can be viewed online. To view a paper through the Turnitin web site without saving a copy to the computer, the instructor simply needs to click on the name of the paper under the title column of the assignment inbox. This will open the paper in a new window with the submission and student information as well as the text of the paper.
The Turnitin Originality Report can be accessed from the assignment inbox. Under the report column are the icons indicating the percentage of the Overall Similarity Index and the corresponding color on a blue to red scale.
For more information about Originality Reports, please click here to view the Originality Report chapter of the Turnitin Instructor Manual.
The instructor may also download and save papers submitted to an assignment. Instructors may download papers one by one, or in a zip file. Instructors on an account with the GradeMark or Peer Review products active may also select whether to download a PDF version of the submission or the original file format.
1. Click on the icon under the file column for the paper to download
2. (If available) For Peer Review and GradeMark accounts, a pop-up window prompts the user to select Originally Submitted format or PDF format
3. The files will download to be saved on the user’s computer
Instructors can bulk download papers in either the original or GradeMark formats.
1. From the assignment inbox, click the check boxes to select the papers that will be downloaded
1a. The user may also select the check box in the column heading to download all papers from all pages of an assignment inbox
2. Click on the download button to begin the download
3. Click on ok to accept the download
4. Select the file format to download in if prompted to do so (GradeMark and Peer Review accounts only)
5. The files will download to be saved on the user’s computer
1. From the assignment inbox, click the check boxes to select the papers that will be downloaded
1a. The user may also select the check box in the column heading to download all papers from all pages of an assignment inbox.
Note: If you select all papers within your class the papers that have not been graded with GradeMark will not be included in the bulk download
2. Click on the Download button and select GradeMark Paper
3. Click on ok to accept the download. A message will appear above your assignment inbox indicating that the selected files are being compressed into a zip file and once compression is complete the file will be available to download in the Turnitin messages inbox
4. The messages inbox will indicate a new message when the file is available for download. Click on the Messages tab
5. Click on the message link. All new messages are given the status New
6. To download the zip file click on the available link(s)
Note: There may be more than one link due to the large number of files selected for compression. To download all the files that you selected for compression please make sure to click on all available links
Turnitin offers the instructor user many methods to organize papers in the assignment inbox to assist with handling large classes or simply to quickly sort the submissions and Originality Reports in an inbox.
The following are the ways an instructor is able to organize the assignment inbox:
If a student has not submitted a paper, --no submission-- will show up in place of a paper title. To quickly view which enrolled users have not submitted a paper, sort the inbox by paper title by clicking on the title column heading.
If a paper is submitted late to an assignment the submission date appears in red. If no submission has been received by the due date and time, late will show up in red in the date column.
