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- to support students in developing their academic writing, including how to use and reference sources;
- to help detect poor academic writing practice, including plagiarism, when it does occur;
- as one alternative via Moodle to manage all stages of the assessment process, including submission, marking and returning work;
- to provide legible and contextualised feedback which students can refer to in future work. These can be 'bubble comments', and/or from a set of frequently-made comments, and/or an optional recorded spoken message.
- for record keeping (both for students and staff).
Find out more about Turnitin...
What are the benefits?
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How can I set up a Turnitin Assignment, step-by-step?
See our step-by-step guidance to setting up Turnitin Assignments in your Moodle area.
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See separate guidance in conjunction with the relevant sections of Miniguide M20M09.
How do I set up Turnitin for drafts, separate from the final submission?
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How do I view the originality reports and matching text sources?
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Read step-by-step instructions on using the originality reports here...
What percentage of the originality score is sufficient to indicate plagiarism?
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How can I tell what is in the Turnitin database?
Details of what Turnitin checks against can be found here - http://submit.ac.uk/en_gb/features/originalitycheck/content
If you would like to check if a particular book or journal is in the Turnitin database then you can check this on the iThenticate website.
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For a quick fix, you can simply exclude (i.e. filter out) the student's own submission with which the submission to the correct portal is matched. For instructions on how to do this using:
- The 'Turnitin Classic' Document Viewer in Originality mode see: https://guides.turnitin.com/01_Manuals_and_Guides/Instructor_Guides/Turnitin_Classic_for_Instructors/21_The_Similarity_Report/Viewing_the_Similarity_Report#Excluding_a_Match
- 'Feedback Studio' in Similarity mode see:https://help.turnitin.com/feedback-studio/turnitin-website/instructor/the-similarity-report/the-similarity-report-explained.htm
A crafty way of eliminating the high similarity index appearing on one of two submissions of the same paper would be to:
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. See Turnitin's guide to excluding sources.
A crafty way of eliminating the high similarity index appearing on one of two submissions of the same paper would be to:
- Upload any arbitrary text based document (with more than 20 words) on behalf of the student to the Turnitin assignment submission portal that s/he submitted to by mistake. This submission would overwrite the last one and in effect remove it from Turnitin's repository. (You would need editing permissions on both module sites).
- After doing this, upload the correct submission AGAIN to the correct Turnitin assignment submission portal. 24 hrs or so thereafter, you will see a new similarity index that won't include a match to the same piece of work.
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Turnitin will currently accept the following file types to generate Originality Reports (as of 15 Dec 2016)(Source:https://help.turnitin.com/feedback-studio/d2l/instructor/submitting-papers/file-types-and-size.htm):
• Microsoft Word® (.doc / .docx)1
• OpenOffice Text (.odt)2
• Google Docs via Google Drive™ (.gdoc files are NOT acceptable)3
• WordPerfect® (.wpd)
• PostScript (.ps/.eps)
• Adobe® PDF4
• Microsoft PowerPoint® (.pptx, .ppt, .ppsx, and .pps)5
• Microsoft Excel® (.xls and .xlsx)6
• HTML
• Rich text format (.rtf)
• Plain text (.txt)
• Hangul Word Processor file (.hwp)
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If a file format issue is occurring, please re-open the file in a word processor, and save the file again using the "save as" function and choosing a different format from the file type pull down menu (try RTF or TXT as they are the most "safe"). Occasionally content in document headers and footers can prevent a file from being accepted by the Turnitin service. If you encounter issues uploading a document that contains headers and footers, editing or removing the content may resolve the issue.
1Note 1 - Microsoft Word: We do not accept Microsoft Word 2007 macros-enabled (.docm) files (we do accept the standard .docx files). Whatever macro is encoded in the file is stripped away when submitted to Turnitin. For example, when using a "letter replacement macro," we strip the macro from the Wordfile, and whatever characters the student originally had in the file will appear (i.e. "a~"). Also, we do NOT accept password protected files.
2Note 2 - Open Office Text: Turnitin will not accept .odt files created and downloaded from Google Docs online. Turnitin will not accept ".doc" files created using OpenOffice since OpenOffice ".doc" files are not 100% Microsoft Word equivalent.
3Note 3 - Google Docs: GDOC files (*.gdoc) which are just links to online Google Document files, but don't actually contain text or the document's content are not supported. Google Drive must be used to upload Google Docs.
4Note 4 - Adobe® PDF: Turnitin will not accept PDF image files, forms, or portfolios. PDF files which do not contain highlightable text (e.g., a "scanned" file, which is often simply a picture of text) are unacceptable. PDF portfolio documents containing multiple files are not supported.
5Note 5 - Microsoft PowerPoint: It is possible to submit PowerPoint files through Turnitin.com, TurnitinUK.com, Turnitin Basic integrations, newer versions of the Turnitin Direct integrations, and LTI compliant integrations only. It not possible to submit PowerPoint files using other non-LTI compliant integrations. Turnitin converts the PowerPoint slide deck into a static PDF, leaving all text and images in their original format but leaving out features such as presenter notes, embedded video, and animations. Text with visual effects is not supported, and it is recommended that any visual effects such as shadows and 3-D be removed prior to submitting to Turnitin.
6Note 6 - Microsoft Excel: The version of the file that can be viewed in the Document Viewer will look the same as it would if the Excel file had been saved as a PDF and submitted to Turnitin. We highly recommend that users pay attention to the image preview provided in the single file submission to verify that the file is presented in an acceptable manner. Users can adjust the way the file looks by editing the page setup and print area settings for the file prior to saving it and submitting it to Turnitin.
(Source: Turnitin's guide to file types and size).
Will Turnitin accept documents containing images?
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- Download and install PDFCreator from http://download. from pdfforge.org/download/pdfcreator/PDFCreator-stable
- Launch the PDFCreator.
- Drag your document on to the PDFCreator window OR click Document > Add and locate and open the file (change "postScript files (.ps)* to All files (.) in the bottom, right to see your documents).
- Click OK when the message appears saying: "It is necessary to temporarily set PDFCreator as default printer".
- Click save.
- Change the filename if you want to retain the original uncompressed version.
- Once the file has finished compressing the default printer will be changed back and the compressed PDF file will open.
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Because Turnitin assignments are stored in an external system it is recommended that assignments are bulk downloaded at the end of term and securely archived in line with current practice for electronic assignment storage within your department. For undergraduate courses, all submissions made in the course of the academic year will be captured in the Moodle archive. This takes place mid-June. As postgraduate courses have different timetables, not all submissions are captured in archiving process, so we recommend you manually archive your Moodle course to retain submissions, please click here for more information about manual archiving.
How do I reset my Turnitin assignments ready for the next academic year?
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Why are students sometimes getting email receipts from Turnitin when they haven't submitted anything?
If a tutor clicks on the grade pencil icon next to a student's name in a Turnitin inbox when they haven't submitted anything, the student receives an email 'digital receipt' with paper ID. Turnitin are aware of this issue and the Digital Education Services team have asked them to resolve it.
How do I allow students to submit scanned work or images to Turnitin?
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