Turnitin Assignments in Ultra Courses
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Turnitin is a learning integration tool used to check for potential unoriginal content within submissions by generating similarity reports. |
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Add a Turnitin Assignment to an Ultra Course
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Add Turnitin Assignment
To add a turnitin assignment to your course, click on the purple plus sign in your course content area and select Content Market
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| If you would like to add a folder first, select the Folder option from the slide out panel. Once the folder is created, you can then expand it to add the turnitin assignment. |
Select the Turnitin tile
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Complete the fields
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| In Blackboard, the post date relates to the availability of GradeMark papers only and has no bearing on when grades are posted to the Blackboard Gradebook |
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- Select Start Date (when the assignment will be available to the students)
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- Select Due Date (when students must have the assignment submitted)
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- Enter Feedback Release Date (when you will have feedback/grades posted for the students)
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Then press save to complete the assignment.
Most assignments are made with the default settings. Below are the additional optional assignment settings that include submission, compare against, similarity report, and exclude assignment template settings.
To view the optional settings, click on optional settings near the bottom of the assignment panel:
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The submission settings are for choosing how the submission will be stored and other submission related settings. The default setting is the standard paper repository, the submissions will be stored in the global paper repository. There are also more settings below the dropdown including allowing submission of any file type, allowing late submissions, and other submission related settings. For more information on the submission settings, please visit this Turnitin page: |
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The compare against settings allows you to select what repositories the submissions are compared to when the software creates the similarity report. By default, papers are compared against all four repositories: student paper repository, institution student paper repository, current and archived web site content, and periodicals, journals, and publications. To learn more about the different repositories please visit this Turnitin page: |
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The submitted paper is compared to Turnitin's primary databases. Turnitin then generates a similarity report, which indicates whether the student properly cited all sources and if additional measures or help may be warranted. The similarity report has options for when the similarity report is generated, available to students, and if the student can resubmit. By default, the similarity report is generated immediately and is available to students. The dropdown menu can be used to change between the options for generating the similarity report. There are options below the dropdown menu for excluding portions of the paper. For more information on the similarity report, please visit this Turnitin page: |
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If you would like your students to use a template you provide for the assignment, you can upload a template to the turnitin assignment so that the template is excluded from the similarity report. For more information about excluding assignment templates, please visit this Turnitin page to explore more about this option: |
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Under additional settings, you can save the settings you set for future use. |
Optional Assignment Settings
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Before posting the assignment, click on the Optional Settings
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instructions . From the drop down menu, select which paper repository you would like to submit papers to.
- Standard paper repository: Turnitin will store a copy of the submitted cocument only in the Standard Repository. By choosing this option, Turnitin is instructed to only use stored documents to make similarity checks against any documents submitted in the future.
- Institution paper repository: Choosing this option instructs Turnitin to only add submitted documents to a repository private to your institution. Similarity checks to the submitted documents will only be made by other instructors within your institution.
- Do not store the submitted papers: Turnitin is instructed to not store submitted documents to any repository. Turnitin will only process the paper to perform the initial similarity check.
Check the appropriate boxes for additional settings for your assignment. To learn more about the options, click on the question mark next to the item.
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Similarity Report
The submitted paper is compared to Turnitin's primary databases. Turnitin then generates a similarity report, which indicates whether the student properly cited all sources and if additional measures or help may be warranted
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Choose similarity reports for student submission: Select one of the following options from the Generate Similarity Reports for student submissions drop down menu to determine when Similarity Reports will be generated
- Generate reports immediately (students cannot resubmit): This option generates reports immediately after the student has submitted a file. Students may only submit one file for review, and are not allowed to resubmit work for the assignment until the instructor deletes the student's previous submission.
- Generate reports immediately (students can resubmit until due date): After 3 re-submissions, reports generate after 24 hours — This option allows students to resubmit files as many times as they like up to the due date, replacing the previous submission each time. Originality Reports are generated immediately for the first three files each student submits, but will require a 24-hour processing time thereafter .
- Generate reports on due date (students can resubmit until due date) —This option delays the processing of Similarity Reports until the due date
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How to interpret the Similarity Report? The color of the report icon indicates the overall similarity index of the paper, based on the amount of matching or similar text that was uncovered. The percentage range is 0% to 100% The possible similarity indices are: |
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- Select the box to allow students to view Similarity reports if you want them to be able to do so.
- Select the check box to exclude or include the bibliography and quoted material within a Similarity Report. The default for a Turnitin assignment setting is to exclude the bibliographic and quoted material.
- Exclude small sources: There are two options, by word count or by percentage. This allows you greater control on sifting out smaller sources, and allowing focus to be on more problematic and suspect matches within the Similarity Report. This setting can be overridden in individual Similarity Reports.
- Check the Save these settings for future use if you want to save this assignments options as your default options for future assignments.
Once you have selected the appropriate settings for your Turnitin assignment, click the Submit button
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. The Turnitin assignment has been created. You can now access the assignment inbox by clicking on the assignment
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| For each Turnitin assignment created, a column will automatically generate in the Gradebook |
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Edit the Turnitin assignment settings
If you want to edit the turnitin assignment settings, click on the turnitin assignment link and select the gear in the upper right hand corner.
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Edit
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If you want to edit the assignment details including due date, max grade, and category, click the three dot menu and select edit from the dropdown menu. To delete the assignment, select delete from the dropdown menu.
Once you have selected edit, the edit panel will open. Select "open in new window" if you want the assignment to open in a new window for students. Select "allow class conversations" if you want to allow for students to have class conversations. Select due date and time if you want to edit the due date. You can change what the assignment is graded using by using the dropdown menu to select points, percentage, complete/incomplete, or SU letter. You can change the maximum points by changing it in the box to the right of maximum points. A category can be selected by using the dropdown menu. Select "formative assessment" if the assignment is a formative assessment. Under additional tools, the assignment can be aligned with goals by selecting the align with goals link. The assignment description can be added or edited at the bottom of the panel. Then once finished with any edits, click save.
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Turnitin assignment release conditions in Ultra
In your content area, you will see the newly created turnitin assignment. It will show you the due date. If you hover your mouse over the Date/time link, you will see when students can access this content.
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If you want to edit when students can access this assignment, click the three dot menu and select edit. To delete the assignment, select delete.
A release conditions menu will open and you can select the options you want and change the
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dates. Once your changes are entered, be sure to click Save.
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