Turnitin Assignments
Channel: Brightspace TUDelft
Date: 2018-09-25

https://brightspace-support.tudelft.nl - Turnitin Assignments

In this video you will learn how to setup Turnitin for an assignment folder and how to make the submission folder available for students. 

Using Turnitin allows you to check assignments for plagiarism, grade this assignments and give feedback, that can be added in-line with the text. 
Let’s take a look, in how to setup Turnitin! 
If you haven’t created an assignment folder yet, please take a look at our previous tutorials in how to do this. 

Go to your submission folder, by clicking on Assignments, in the navigation bar. Click the drop-down menu button next to the Assignment you wish to setup Turnitin for, and select Edit submission folder. 
In this new page, click the Turnitin tab on the navigation bar.  Now click on the checkbox to ‘’Enable Turnitin for this folder’’. Add a start date and an end date, a title and instructions if necessary. 
Let’s take a look at the optional settings. Click the button below to expand the settings page. Go through them and make the relevant selections. 

For normal assignments, you can choose the repository you want the assignments to be stored in. 
This can be done under the field ‘Submissions to this assignment will be stored in’. 

Please notice that all submissions stored in the Turnitin repository will be checked against previous submissions submitted here, as well as, any information that can be found on the Internet. 

All sources with a similar content will display in the Similarity Report. So, if you click in any of them you will be able to see the entire source, since all submissions are stored in the same repository, for all Turnitin users around the world. 

It’s important to keep in mind that when checking documents for plagiarism that contain sensitive information, such as thesis and dissertations, you must select the option ‘’Do not store the submitted papers’’. 
This means that the submission will not be entered into the repository, and this will prevent the submission from showing up in someone else’s similarity report. 

This is specially important to prevent someone from seeing the content of the submissions that are stored in the repository, since it might be possible to copy the content and publish it under their own names. 

Select all the options accordingly, and click save, once you are done. 

Back to the previous menu, and under ‘Originality Check’ click on the Display checkbox to allow students to see their similarity scores. 
You can also adjust the frequency in which the papers are checked. 
Save and close once all is set. 

To continue reading the script please access the Brightspace webpage: https://brightspace-support.tudelft.nl/qrc-training/turnitin-assignments