This guide introduces instructors to the assignment settings for the new Standard Assignment, where they can configure assignment details, select a rubric, and adjust report settings.
The new Standard Assignment is only currently available for Turnitin Feedback Studio licenses using the Turnitin website or an LTI 1.3 integration.
In this guide:
The assignment settings are categorized into three tabs to assist with navigation - assignment details, rubric, and report settings.
Assignment details
Instructions
An optional space to provide a description or instructions for the assignment to your students.
The instructions field supports up to 100,000 bytes (roughly tens of thousands of characters, depending on formatting).
- Instructions are visible to students before they begin the assignment.
- Any formatting applied in the instructions box will also be visible to your students.
- Formatting includes:
- bold
- italics
- underline
- bulleted lists
- numbered lists
- hyperlinks
- left, center, and right indentations
- Formatting includes:
If you are using an LMS, we will pass across the amount of characters inputted to the field to the LMS. This will then be truncated on the LMS side to accommodate for those that have limits.
Template
Upload an assignment template that can be downloaded by your students. Text within the template will be automatically excluded from Similarity Reports.
Template file requirements:
- Must be less than 100MB
- Supported file types - .docx, .xlsx, .pptx, .ps, .pdf, .html, .txt, .rft, .odt, .hwp
Hide student details for anonymous grading
Hide student names within the assignment when anonymized grading is required. Once the feedback release date has passed, all student names will be automatically revealed.
If it is necessary to reveal a student name before the feedback release date, the option to reveal their identity is available from the three-dot-menu at the end of the student’s row in the submission list. Revealing a student’s details cannot be reversed.
Allow late submissions
Allow students to submit to an assignment after the due date has passed. If enabled, only one submission can be made if the student has not already submitted before the due date.
Allow resubmissions until due date
Allow students to resubmit to an assignment until the due date has passed. Students can make up to three submissions to the assignment within 24 hours of their first submission or first resubmission.
When resubmissions are enabled we recommend grading submissions after the due date has passed. If a student resubmits, their previous submission is overwritten and any grading will be lost.
Allow unsupported file types
Allow students to submit any file type to the assignment, even if it is not compatible to generate a Similarity Report or AI writing report. Learn more about our supported file types with our file requirement guidance.
Rubric
Within the Rubric tab, you can manage rubrics for grading your assignment. You can return to this tab after assignment creation by editing the assignment settings if you would prefer to do this later. You can:
- Locate and select an existing rubric from three categories - rubrics you have created, rubrics shared across your institutional account, or precreated rubrics provided by Turnitin.
- Import or create a new rubric by selecting Create Rubric. Check out our rubric creation guidance to learn more.
- Edit existing rubrics by selecting Launch Rubric Manager.
Have existing rubrics that were created in the classic grading experience? We can migrate and convert your existing rubrics into the new, enhanced grading experience so that you don’t need to recreate them.
- Access the Rubric tab of the assignment settings.
- Select Create Rubric.
- Select Import Rubrics from the top blue banner.
- We will do the rest for you. Do not exit the modal until you have received a success banner.
Report settings
Store student submissions for comparison
Select whether or not to store submissions to the assignment to a repository to be used for comparison against other submissions. The options available to you will depend on your institution’s account settings.
- General Turnitin repository - submissions are stored in a general Turnitin repository and can be used for comparison against other submissions from your institution and others.
- Private institutional repository - submissions are stored in a private repository that can only be used for comparison against other submissions within your institution.
- Do not store the submitted papers - submissions are not stored in a repository and will not be used for comparison to other submissions within this assignment or anywhere else in Turnitin.
Compare submissions
Select the repositories that submissions will be compared against when generating their Similarity Reports. All options are enabled by default and at least one option must be selected to create an assignment.
- General Turnitin repository - compares a submission to previous submissions in Turnitin assignments across institutions.
- Private institutional repository - compares a submission to previous submissions in Turnitin assignments unique to your institution.
- Internet content - compares a submission against archived and live publicly available internet pages. Tens of thousands of new pages are added daily.
- Periodicals, journals, and publications - compares submissions to third party publications, including many major professional journals, periodicals, and business publications.
Generate report
Decide whether Similarity Reports are generated at the time of submission or on the due date:
- Time of submission - Similarity Reports will generate immediately after being uploaded to the assignment.
- On due date - all submissions’ Similarity Reports are generated at the same time on the due date.
Can the time of report generation affect the similarity score?
It can, yes, but it depends on whether the assignment is also set to store submissions into a repository.
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If submissions are added to a repository
- Generate reports immediately - with this setting, the Similarity Report for each submission will be generated immediately without comparison to other submissions within the assignment. On the assignment due date, a new Similarity report and collusion check will be run. This process indexes all submissions to the selected repository and compares them to each other. As a result of this refresh, some similarity scores may change.
- Generate reports on due date - all submissions will enter the repository on the due date and will be used for comparison against each other.
- Submissions are not stored in a repository - the submissions within an assignment cannot be used for comparison against each other, so the time of report generation has no effect on the similarity score.
Report access
Set whether or not students can view and access a copy of their Similarity Report. This will not affect their access to any grading and feedback.
Translated Matching
Can’t see a Translated Matching setting? Translated Matching may not be included in your institution’s license. Reach out to your administrator for more information.
If students submit work written in a non-English language, Translated Matching generates a second Similarity Report based on an English translation of the submission. Check out our guidance on Translated Matching to learn more.
Exclusions
Exclude elements of written work from potentially inflating a similarity score:
- Bibliography
- Quoted text
- Matches that are smaller than a set number of words.
Learn more about exclusions and their parameters from its dedicated guidance.