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Turnitin provides plagiarism checks for files that your students submit through the Assignments tool in D2L Brightspace. In addition, you can also utilize Turnitin Grademark to annotate and provide feedback directly on the document that is uploaded. You enable this functionality during the setup of an assignment folder using the Turnitin tab. The guides below will show you how to enable Turnitin, and how to utilize the tool in your courses.

How to Enable Turnitin on Assignments

 

1.  From the course home screen, click Course Admin located in the navbar.

2.  Click Assignments, which is located under the Assessment category.

3.  Click New Submission Folder

4.  Enter a Name for the assignment folder in the field provided.  Note:  For additional information on setting up the assignment folder including all settings under the properties tab and Restrictions tab, please click here to access our guide - Assignments: Creating an Assignment Folder (AKA Dropbox)

5.  Click the Turnitin tab

6.  Check the box to the left of "Enable Grademark for this folder".  Note:  Grademark enables you to grade, annotate, and provide feedback directly on the file.  Although you do not have to use it, you must enable it if you wish to enable the originality check which is the plagiarism function. Once enabled, you do not need to grade using the Grademark feature if you do not wish to.

  • Automatically sync grades as Draft in Brightspace:  Enabling this option will automatically sync the grade that you enter when using the Grademark feature with the grade field in the Evaluate screen.  
  • (Default) Manually sync grades ad draft in Brightspace: This option requires that you manually transfer the grade from grademark to the evaluate screen.

7.  Check the box to the left of "Enable Originality Check for this folder".

  • Allow learners to see Turnitin similarity scores in their submission folder:  Enable this option if you want your students to be able to review their turnitin plagiarism report.  
  • Automatic originality checking on all submissions:  Leave this option enabled if you want the process to run automatically after the student has submitted their paper.  (This is recommended)
  • Identify individual submissions for originality checking:  Enabling this option will require that you manually initiate this process after the student has submitted the assignment.  This would require that you initiate the process for each individual submission by each student.

8.  Click Save and Close.  You will be able to verify that the folder has turnitin enabled by the icon which appears beside it's name.

Additional Items to Consider

  • By default all papers that are submitted to Turnitin are then saved in the Turnitin database for comparisons in the future.  If you would like to remove this so that submitted papers are checked but not saved in the database then you can do so by editing the submission folder and returning to the turnitin tab.  Click More Options in Turnitin and then select Optional Settings.  Here you can click "Standard paper repository" and choose the option "Do not store the submitted paper".

    • A possible scenario when this would be handy would be if you were asking students to submit multiple drafts of a single paper.  You may want their drafts to be checked for plagiarism but not saved to the repository so that each draft doesn't flag the next.

How to Provide Feedback Using Grademark

1.  From the course home screen, click Course Admin located in the navbar.

2.  Click Assignments, which is located under the Assessment category.

3.  Click on the Assignment Folder you wish to grade.

4.  Click on the Pencil icon to the right of the submission you wish to provide Inline Feedback for.

5.  This will open the Turnitin Feedback Studio in a new tab in your browser.

  1. Document viewer: Shows the contents of the file.
  2. Grade Box:  Allows you to assign a grade. 
    •  Note:  There is no save button as it will automatically save when you enter a value.
  3.  Cycle Submissions:  Click the arrows to cycle between the various student submissions or click the arrow in-between to select a specific submission.
  4. Grademark Options:
    • QuickMark Menu:  Shows the available list of Quickmarks that you current have saved.  Quickmarks are short canned responses that are used regularly
    • Comment Summary:  Provides you with the ability to record a comment or adding a general text feedback for the paper.
    • Rubric Information:  N/A 
  5. Turnitin Options:  These options are related to the Turnitin originality check and are not applicable to Grademark.

6.  To text comments, quickmarks, or comment bubbles to the paper right click on the location on the paper where you want the item to go.

7.  Choose which type of comment you want to make.  From Left to right - Quickmark, Comment Bubble, Inline Text.

  • Quickmark:  Quick way to insert commonly used items.  You can add your own items to the quickmark list if you want.
  • Comment Bubble:  Creates a chat bubble where you can add longer comments.  These will appear to the student as a collapsed chat bubble and they can then click on the bubble to view the comment.
    • Note:  You can create new Quickmarks from Comment Bubbles by clicking on the created comment bubble and choosing "Convert to Quickmark" in the lower right-hand corner.
  • Inline Text Comment:  Use this option to add text directly onto the document.

8.  Once you have entered all your comments you can provide the score in the top right-hand corner and close the tab or move on to the next student submission by clicking the arrows in the top right-hand corner.

Publishing The Feedback

Before students can view your inline feedback you must first publish it.  Follow the steps below to publish your feedback so students can view.

1.  From the Submission View page (See steps 1-3 above)  select the student or students for who you wish to publish feedback.  You can select the students by clicking the box to the left of their names or select everyone by clicking the box to the left of the column headers.

2.  Once Selected, Click Publish Feedback located on the right above the columns.

3.  Click Yes to finalize the feedback publication.

Student Process to Access Feedback

Note:  In order for students to have access to the inline feedback, you must have set up the folder to allow learners to see Turnitin similarity scores in their submission folder.

 

1.  Click Class Progress in the NavBar.

 

2.  Click Assignments on the left-hand side.

 

3.  Locate the Assignment in the list to the right and click Details.

 

4.  Click View Inline Feedback

 

5.  The feedback studio will open into a new browser tab and the comments you added will appear in the document viewer.

Review Turnitin Similarity Reports for Assignment Folder Submissions

1.  Click Assignments.

2.  Click the title of the folder you want to view.

3.  Locate the Student from the list and click on the percentage under the Turnitin Similarity report column to view the report.

  • Note:  The percent indicates the amount of the paper which has been flagged.

4.  This will open the paper in the Turnitin Feedback Studio where you can see the content of the paper and review the flags.  

5.  Click the value (percent) over the right to begin to breakdown the various flags and review the sources where they came from.

6.  You can continue to view the source material by clicking the right arrow next to one of the flags.

7.  Click on one of the various paper submissions to view the source.  

  • NOTE:  If the source paper was submitted to a class where you were not the instructor then you will need to request access to it from the Instructor of that course.