Add a Turnitin Assignment to an Ultra 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.

Select the Turnitin tile.

Complete the fields.

•    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.

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

 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
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• Generate reports on due date (students can resubmit until due date) —This option delays the processing of Similarity Reports until the due date

• 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.
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• 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.  The Turnitin assignment has been created.   You can now access the assignment inbox by clicking on the assignment name


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.

Edit 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.

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.