Add a Turnitin Assignment to an Ultra Course
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Turnitin Assignments in Ultra Courses
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Turnitin can assist in detecting unoriginal or un-paraphrased content in written submissions. The tool generates a "similarity report" that shows what percentage of the submission matches existing content in Turnitin's repositories. The similarity report also flags content it believes may be AI-generated. |
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The offers policy guidance on using Turnitin and a recommended syllabus statement instructors can use to notify students that they are using Turnitin. |
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Adding Turnitin
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Assignments
To add a
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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.
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 |
- Select Start Date (when the assignment will be available to the students)
- Select Due Date (when students must have the assignment submitted)
- Enter Feedback Release Date (when you will have feedback/grades posted for the students)
Before posting the assignment, click on the Optional Settings to select additional 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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" from the dropdown list. This assignments act as a standard content item and can be moved or created inside of folders or learning modules.
Select the "Turnitin tile" from the content market.
Complete the fields from the pop up menu.
- Each assignment requires a Title, Instructions, and Max Grade.
- Start Date: This creates a release condition that defines when students will be able to open the assignment. In the meantime they will see a link for it, but they will not see the details or be able to launch it. This can be edited in Blackboard.
- Due Date: This creates a due date for the assignment. This can be edited in Blackboard
- Feedback Release Date: This is the date and time when the grade will post automatically in Blackboard and when the student will be able to see feedback and their grade in Turnitin.
- PeerMark: This enables the ability for instructors to attach a PeerMark Assignment to the submission. In PeerMark Assignments, students review and comment on the work of one or more classmates. Instructors can add review criteria and grade students on the comments students provide to colleagues. .
Click save to complete the assignment.
Optional Settings
Most assignments are made with the default settings, but there are additional settings available.
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Submission settings contain additional criteria such as:
For more information on the submission settings, please visit . |
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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 . |
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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 |
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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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Once you have selected the appropriate settings for your Turnitin assignment, click the Submit button. The Turnitin assignment has been created. You can now access the assignment inbox by clicking on the assignment name
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| For each Turnitin assignment created, a column will automatically generate in the Gradebook |
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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. The similarity report has options for when the similarity report is generated and made available to students, and if the student can resubmit to the assignment. By default, the similarity report is generated immediately, is available to students, and student cannot resubmit. 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 . |
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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 . |
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If you check the box to "save these settings for future use," the options selected for this assignment will become your new default settings. |
Edit Assignment Start and End Dates
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Some assignment settings, such as the availability date, the due date, and the max points can only be edited in Blackboard after the item is created. Other settings can be adjusted in Turnitin by launching the link and clicking the settings gear in the upper right hand corner. The gear will bring you to the same page as when the assignment was originally created. Some settings, such as enabling anonymous submissions, are unavailable after one student has made a submission. |
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Once the assignment has been created, some aspects can only be edited in Blackboard. To edit the due date, max grade, or category, click the "three dot" menu and select edit from the dropdown menu. To delete the assignment, select delete from the dropdown menu.
You can edit any of the fields in the panel that opens, just as you would for any other Blackboard assignment. Be sure to click save once you've finished your edits.
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In your content area, you will see the newly created |
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Turnitin assignment with the due date |
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displayed. Release conditions determine when the students can open the assignment to see the details and begin submissions; display the setting by hovering over the "Date/time link |
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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 dates. Once your changes are entered, be sure to click Save.
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". Click the link to edit the release conditions or to limit which students or groups can access the assignment.
The Release Conditions are set automatically by the start date and time you set in Turnitin. After creation they can be edited just as any other item in your Blackboard course. Be sure to click Save, after you've made any changes.
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AI Writing Detection
Turnitin uses its AI writing detection model to determine how much of the submission it deems was generated by AI. Turnitin provides a that discusses how the detection works and .
Additional Resources
Turnitin provides a number of addition resources on and .