Turnitin - Integrated Moodle assignment

In recent improvements to Moodle, Turnitin is now fully integrated with the Moodle Assignment activity.  The advantage of the integrated Turnitin assignment is that it removes the necessity for students to submit to separate Turnitin and Assignment dropboxes.

Note that the existing separate Turnitin dropbox is still available.

As a result there are now two ways to use Turnitin.

1. Through the separate Turnitin dropbox that you have used in the past.

2.  Through the integrated Turnitin settings in the Assignment module.

The following instructions apply to Turnitin integrated into the Assignment module only.

Important note:  If you choose to use the integrated Turnitin Assignment you should delete any relevant separate Turnitin dropboxes from your Moodle site.  If you do not, it is possible for students to submit both, which will count as two separate submissions and generate a very high Similarity score! 

In accordance with Faculty policy the following conditions apply when using Turnitin.

First and Second year undergraduate students - Students enrolled at a first or second year level will be permitted unlimited Turnitin resubmission attempts.

Third and Fourth year levels - Only a single submission attempt is permitted.

Postgraduate students - Students enrolled at the postgraduate level will be permitted a single submission attempt. The unit coordinator/chief examiner will have discretion to allow multiple resubmission attempts on a case-by-case basis in circumstances where essay based assessment may not necessarily have been undertaken at an early stage in the student's degree program.

Integrated Turnitin Assignment Settings 

General instructions for creating an integrated Turnitin Assignment can be found here http://www.intranet.monash/vle/turnitin/creating-an-integrated-assignment.

The following additional settings are recommended.

Integrated Turnitin Assignment - Multiple submissions settings

When setting up a Moodle Assignment there is now an extra setting under the heading Turnitin plagiarism plugin settings.

Recommended settings are shown below (changes from the default in bold) and in the accompanying figure.

• Enable Turnitin - Yes

• Display Originality Report to Students - Yes

• Release GradeMark Report to Students - No

• When should the file be submitted to Turnitin? - Submit file when first uploaded

• This setting is crucial to allow students to have multiple submissions to Turnitin

• Allow submission of any file type? No

• Store Student Papers - Standard Repository

• Check against stored student papers - Yes

• Check against internet - Yes

• Check against journals, periodicals and publications - Yes

• Report Generation Speed - Generate reports immediately (resubmissions are allowed until due date)

• Exclude Bibliography - Yes

• Exclude Quoted Material - Yes

• Exclude Small Matches - Yes (5-8 words is recommended)

Notes:

Turnitin will generate an Originality report within ~30 minutes for the first submission. All subsequent submissions may take ~1 day to generate a report.

Students should only click the Submit Assignment button once they are satisfied with their text-matching score. Once an Assignment is submitted they will not be able to re-submit to Turnitin.

Integrated Turnitin Assignment - Single submission settings

When setting up a Moodle Assignment there is now an extra setting under the heading Turnitin plagiarism plugin settings.

Recommended settings are shown below (changes from the default in bold) and in the accompanying figure. 

• Enable Turnitin - Yes

• Display Originality Report to Students - Yes

• Release GradeMark Report to Students - No

• When should the file be submitted to Turnitin? - Submit file when students sends for marking

• Allow submission of any file type? No

• Store Student Papers - Standard Repository

• Check against stored student papers - Yes

• Check against internet - Yes

• Check against journals, periodicals and publications - Yes

• Report Generation Speed - Generate reports immediately (resubmissions are not allowed)

• Exclude Bibliography - Yes

• Exclude Quoted Material - Yes

• Exclude Small Matches - Yes (5-8 words is recommended)

Notes:

Turnitin will generate an Originality report within ~30 minutes for each students first submissions.