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It takes both the Blackboard admin and the Turnitin admin to complete this integration. If these are two different people, they will need to work together when configuring the integration.
The entire configuration of Turnitin can be done without logging into home.turnitin.com. Because the configuration happens within Blackboard, the 'LTI configuration light' won't show as activated on the Integration Configuration screen when you log in.
Register LTI 1.3 in Blackboard
To register LTI 1.3 in Blackboard, follow these steps:
- Navigate to the Administrator Panel (Admin in the left menu).
- In the integrations menu, select LTI Tool Providers.
- In the top menu, select Register LTI 1.3 Tool.
- Enter the client ID and select Submit.
Client ID: 907b10a5-fbbe-4811-adbf-8ac3a40a2b34
If you would like to test the LTI 1.3 integration in your Blackboard test or dev environment or you have multiple instances of an LMS, you will need to create a separate Turnitin sub-account for this via home.turnitin.com. It is important to use different Turnitin accounts for the different environments. You can, however, use the same URL listed above for this testing.
- The Tool Status section will automatically populate. Please ensure that this is the LTI tool you want to register.
- For the Tool Status setting, select Approved.
- In the Institution Policies section, the options in the User Fields to Send will all be set to blank by default. Select them all.
- Select Yes for both Allow grade service access and Allow Membership Service Access.
- Select Submit. You will see a banner indicating your registration within Blackboard has been successful.
If you have multiple schools using a single environment, you can manage multiple deployments associated with multiple nodes and link them to different Turnitin accounts if needed, using the same LTI 1.3 registration.
Deployment
When configuring a new Turnitin integration within your LMS, you must run our deployment workflow before your institution can start using the integration.
The deployment workflow requires the Turnitin account administrator at your institution to link the integration to a specific Turnitin sub-account. This workflow will launch automatically when attempting to use the integration for the first time, which is why we recommend creating a “dummy” assignment to complete your configuration.
- Close the Administrator Panel and navigate to the courses area (Courses in the left panel).
- You will need to select a course where you are enrolled as an instructor and create a new assignment.
If you are not enrolled in any courses, you will need to be added to an existing course or create a new one.
- If using Original view:
- Select the Turnitin LTI 1.3 tool from the Build Content area.
- If using Ultra view:
- Select the Turnitin LTI 1.3 tool from the Content Market area.
- You will be prompted to log in to your Turnitin administrator account.
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Once you have logged in to Turnitin’s deployment workflow, you will either be provided with a list of existing configurations or the option to create a new one.
If you are migrating from LTI 1.1 to LTI 1.3, we recommend that you link to the same configuration that you used for the LTI 1.1 integration.
- To link to an existing configuration, locate the name of the configuration in the list provided and select the link button. If there is a lock icon in place of the link button, that configuration cannot be used for this deployment.
- To create a new deployment - Select the Create New or Create Deployment button, depending on which you have available.
- Select the Turnitin account the configuration should be registered to and select Next.
- Enter a descriptive name for the deployment as it may be listed for future configurations in your LMS. Select Next.
- Confirm the deployment to complete your configuration. If successful, you will be prompted to log out of the deployment workflow and return to your LMS.
For mapping roles in Blackboard, Turnitin only supports mapping to the Instructor or Student roles.
If a Student Information System (SIS) changes a student’s enrollment on an LMS course to either remove them or make them inactive, this could remove the student from the Turnitin assignment. If an institution has concerns about how their SIS may work with Turnitin, they should speak to their LMS provider to learn more about how details are shared with LTI tools.