Turnitin Assignments in Ultra Courses
Turnitin is a learning integration tool used to check for potential unoriginal content within submissions by generating similarity reports.
If you are going to use Turnitin assignments in your course, per University policy, you are required to notify students in advance that you are going to use the software. The Academic Affairs office has created a statement that should be included in the course syllabus to notify students that Turnitin will be used within the course.
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 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.
- Enter the title, instructions, and max grade in designated boxes
- Select Start Date (when the assignment will be available to the students)
- Select Due Date (when students must have the assignment submitted)
- Select Feedback Release Date (when you will have feedback/grades posted for the students)
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: