Turnitin

Turnitin is a form of plagiarism prevention, which allows faculty to easily verify student authorship through reports which show a percentage of how much of a document is original, cited from other sources, or unoriginal.

The Turnitin database contains over 45 billion web pages, over 337 million student papers, and over 130 million articles from academic books and publications that the tool uses to compare a recently updated document from a student. Results of the compare are returned in seconds, showing any matches to existing content on the web.

Turnitin’s Integration Package is required for the integration to work. Please contact your Turnitin Account Representative for pricing information.

Note: You cannot impersonate users with Turnitin. You must be logged in directly as the faculty member or student in order to work with it.

An Integration Manager can set up Turnitin as a Learning tool provider.

  1. In Core, select Settings, Integration settings, then Learning tools.

  2. Select Add provider and select Turnitin as the Provider type.

  3. Enter a Provider name for the tool.

  4. Enter an optional Description.

  5. Enter the Launch URL: https://api.turnitin.com/api/lti/1p0/assignment

  6. Tip: Schools in the UK should use https://api.turnitinuk.com/api/lti/1p0/assignment instead.

  7. Enter your Consumer Key. This is your Account ID in your Turnitin account. It can be found on the left-hand side of your account name on the Administrator page in Turnitin.

  8. Enter the Shared Secret provided by your Turnitin administrator.

  9. When finished, select Save.

Once Turnitin has been added as a Learning tool, teachers can start using it with their assignments.

If Turnitin is set up as an LTI provider tool, faculty will see an option to enable it from Add New Assignment when they select Turnitin under File Submission.

Note: If a Third party submission like Turnitin is selected, the Learning Tool option will be completely disabled, as only one learning tool can be active at once.

Once an Assignment has been configured as a Turnitin Assignment, faculty must launch the Turnitin tool from Assignment Details. Upon launch, the following takes place:

  1. A Course Section will be created in Turnitin if one did not already exist..

  2. The Course Roster will automatically be populated in Turnitin if it has not already been added. If the roster is already populated, it is updated to include the user who launched Turnitin if they are not already there.

  3. The Assignment will be created in Turnitin.

  4. The Turnitin Inbox for faculty will appear within an iFrame on Assignment Detail. From here, faculty can access Settings to configure their Turnitin options.

The value of all of the above is the elimination of duplicate user provisioning for your admins as well as a simplified workflow for faculty and students within one system.

When students select the Assignment Detail for a Turnitin enabled assignment they will also be able to launch the it without having to navigate to a completely different page or website. Documents can also be submitted to Turnitin without having to authenticate into another system.

Faculty will see student submissions within the Turnitin inbox on the Assignment Detail which includes the originality score. Faculty can select the title to open it in Turnitin which allows them to use additional features like GradeMark or PeerMark.

When Turnitin is used, Gradebook is required as assignment grades that are added through Turnitin sync back into it.

No. WhenTurnitin is attached to an assignment, it is linked in the system through the API. Once you save an assignment with Turnitin, the option to delete the assignment is disabled and Turnitincannot be removed from an assignment. If needed, you may recreate an assignment without Turnitin.

Although both a Rubric and Turnitin can be added to an Assignment, they should not be used together. This can cause some unintended consequences in both Blackbaud Student Information System and Turnitin.

This occurs when students attempt to submit a late assignment and may be caused by the Turnitin assignment settings. Faculty can enable the Allow Late Submissions option in the Turnitin settings if students may submit late assignments.

  1. From the class Assignments tab or the Assignment Center, select the assignment title.

  2. In the Turnitin tile, select the Settingsicon, then select Optional Settings.

  3. Under Submission Settings, enable Allow Late Submissions.

  4. Select Submit to save your changes.

When an assignment is created, it is linked to a class in Turnitin. If you are getting this message when you attempt to view your student assignments, the class has most likely expired in Turnitin. The default end date for a class in Turnitin is six months. You can extend the end date for the class manually through Turnitin, or create a new Turnitin assignment for the course which will also extend the end date for the course.