Create Turnitin assignment

You can now addTurnitin either as part of the Assignment Tool in clickUP OR you can add it as a separate assignment. Before you create the Turnitin assignment, decide which option will be best for your context.

Create assignment

Go to the place on the Course Content where you want to add the Turnitin Assignment so that you add it in the correct place. For example:

The Content Market will open - scroll down until you find Turnitin.

Assignment settings

This is what your screen will look like:

1. Provide a title and instructions.
2. Add the grade. The default Max Grade value is 100 if left blank.
3. Complete the date fields as follows:
   • Start date indicates when students can see the link and begin to submit.
   • Due date and time is when the system will not accept further submissions for this assignment.
   • Feedback release date is the date when marks and feedback will be made visible to students in My Grades area. This is an opportunity to set the duration necessary for you to grade submissions and provide feedback to students.

4. Enable PeerMark - select this option if you wish to create a Peermark assignment for students.
5. Optional settings
   Click on Optional Settings and proceed according to the seniority of the students, the nature of the assignment (all doing the same or highly individual).

Optional settings

The following optional settings are available:

• Submission settings
• Grammar checking
• Rubric settings
• Comparison settings
• Similarity report settings
• Assignment template settings

Submission settings

Should papers be submitted to the Turnitin repository/database?
Click on the drop-down arrow - to make a selection:

Standard paper repository Student papers will be checked against other institutions' student submissions. This option is applicable to undergraduate assignments and will help to detect when the same assignment is submitted in the future by another student.

OR

Do not store the submitted papers A similarity report will still be generated for paper submissions, but your students' papers will not be stored in the Turnitin standard paper repository or the institution's paper repository for future comparison.

If selected, then any file type may be submitted. Turnitin however does not guarantee comparison of text in all file types. If an assignment is set to allow any file type, Turnitin will accept any file:

• that is less than 100MB;
• that has a minimum of 20 words; and
• that is less than 800 pages.

File types that will generate a similarity report

Turnitin can only generate Similarity Reports from these files:

• HTML
• Microsoft Word® (.doc/.docx)
• Hangul Word Processor file (.hwp)
• OpenOffice Text (.odt)
• Rich text format (.rtf)
• WordPerfect® (.wpd)
• Plain text (.txt)
• PostScript (.ps)
• Google Docs via Google Drive™ - If submitting with Google Drive™, third-party cookies must be allowed in your browser, otherwise, any attempts to sign into Google to upload from Google Drive will fail. Note that Google Drive functionality is not supported in IE8 or below. Do not upload Google Doc (.gdoc) files directly as the file does not store the document, but contains a reference to it online, in Google Docs.
• Adobe® PDF - Turnitin will not accept PDF image files, forms, or portfolios, files that do not contain highlightable text (e.g. a scanned file - usually an image), documents containing multiple files or files created with software other than Adobe Acrobat®.
• Microsoft PowerPoint® (.pptx, .ppt, .ppsx, and .pps)
• Microsoft Excel® (.xls and .xlsx)

If you are using an unsupported word processor, you may need to save your plain text file as .txt or .rtf to upload to Turnitin.

Unsupported file types that won't generate a similarity report

Turnitin will not accept the following to generate Similarity Reports:

• Password protected files
• Microsoft® Works (.wps) files
• Microsoft Word 2007 macros-enabled .docm files
• OpenOffice Text (.odt) files created and downloaded from Google Docs online
• Document (.doc) files created using OpenOffice, as they are not 100% Microsoft Word equivalent
• Apple Pages
• Spreadsheets created outside of Microsoft Excel (i.e. .ods)
• Text with visual effects

From: Turnitin's Help Site

An instructor can enable this option to allow submissions after the due date and time. When selected, students will be able to submit papers after the due date and time has passed if that student has not already submitted a paper to the assignment.

Student submissions after the due date and time (late submissions) will be marked with red text in the date column of the submission in the assignment inbox.

Assignments can be marked anonymously in Grade Mark.

When Translated Matching is enabled, Turnitin will identify the language that a paper/assignment has been written in. It will then be fully translated into English. The resulting English language content is then matched against all the databases that have been activated for the assignment. If a match is found, this will be displayed alongside any matches we have found in the non-translated version of the paper.

Languages supported: Arabic, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian Bokmal, Norwegian Nyorsk, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, and Turkish. (Total of 46 languages) * No South African Languages

Grammar checking

When you select the below settings, submissions will also contain feedback marks in GradeMark for grammar and other language traits.

Rubric settings

When you select to attach a rubric, you can select or create a rubric to use when grading.

A previous rubric may be selected from the drop-down list or the rubric manager can be launched in order to copy from a previous rubric/edit and or create a new rubric.

Compare against

Choose all three options for undergraduate papers to be compared against.

It is not necessary for postgraduate research to be compared against the student paper repository as it is unlikely that that level of research will be found in undergraduate assignment papers.

Similarity Report

Generate reports immediately (students cannot resubmit until the due date). Reports for all submissions will be generated immediately. Students cannot resubmit papers. Submissions must be deleted by the instructor to enable re-submission.

Generate reports immediately (students can resubmit until the due date)

Only the latest submission is available to the instructor or student. Previous versions are overwritten. Similarity Reports will regenerate within an hour of the due date and time to allow student submissions to compare against one another within the assignment. A change in the Similarity Report similarity index may result from the regeneration of the reports. This option is typically used when students are self-reviewing and revising their submissions and able to view the Similarity Report. This also helps students to better their writing and referencing. No re-submissions are allowed after the due date and time of the assignment.

Generate reports on due date (students can resubmit until due date)

Similarity Reports will not be generated for any submission until the due date and time of the assignment. Students may resubmit as many times as needed until the due date and time without receiving reports. Re-submissions may not be made after the due date and time of the assignment.

This setting allows the instructor to choose whether students can view the Similarity Report or not.

When the bibliographic material option is selected, the bibliographic materials will automatically be excluded from Similarity Reports. Bibliographic materials can also be included and excluded when viewing the Similarity Report. This setting cannot be modified after the first paper has been submitted.

When selected, this feature controls whether quoted material (text in quotes) will automatically be excluded from Similarity Reports. Quoted materials can also be included and excluded when viewing the individual Similarity Report. This setting cannot be modified after the first paper has been submitted.

When selected, this feature automatically excludes small matches from all Similarity Reports generated within this assignment. Once selected the more options appear.

Select the small match exclusion type: Enter either the Words or Percentage and then the numerical value (threshold) for small matches that will be excluded. Instructors can adjust the exclude small matches assignment setting at any time by clicking on the edit icon to the right of the assignment name.

Example: If the threshold is set to 3%, any 1% or 2% from any one of the sources matched would be removed from the current report's source list (Match Overview or All Sources). This is not recommended!

Filtering by 10 words will exclude all sources that have a cumulative number of matching words that are less than 10 words in length. The excluding small matches feature can be adjusted within each individual Similarity Report as well.

Assignment template settings

Upload or create a template of text to be automatically excluded from the Similarity Report.

Template Requirements:

• Uploaded files must be less than 100 MB
• If your file exceeds 100 MB, you can reduce its size by removing any images or save the file as a rich text or plain text file. You could also copy the text from the file and paste it into the Create Custom Template text box.
• Templates must have at least %1 words of text
• Accepted file types for upload: Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, WordPerfect, PostScript, PDF, HTML, RTF, OpenOffice (ODT), Hangul (HWP), and plain text

Save these settings for future use.

**Do not forget to SUBMIT! **

None of the compulsory information can be edited in the LTI link again. Editing of start and due dates and marks has to be done in the clickUP weblink.

Please refer to this page for the steps.