Create Turnitin Assignment guide

You need to enable Anonymous Marking in the Turnitin Assignment activity prior to any students submitting assignments. The student names are revealed on the Post Date and Time. The Post Date and Time also controls when grades and feedback are released to students. Re-enabling Anonymous Marking is not possible once the Post Date and Time have been reached.

1. Turn Edit mode on.
2. Open the topic/week where you want the Turnitin assignment to be located.
3. Select Add an activity or resource.
4. Select Turnitin Assignment from the Activities tab.

It's not possible to create a group assignment on Turnitin.

It is possible to enable Turnitin on a Moodle group assignment but Turnitin should only be used to view the similarity report. Turnitin does not support group marking. You must use Moodle's grading mechanisms to provide grades and feedback.

See our guidance on Moodle group assignments for more information.

1. Turnitin Assignment name: Give your assignment a name. Choose something meaningful for students and help them to distinguish between different assignments on the module.
2. Summary: Provide assignment information and instructions.We recommend including a link to our Submit Turnitin Assignment guide for students in this field. If you are using Feedback Studio to grade, instruct students to submit their assignments with double-spaced text. Select the tick box under the summary to display this information on the module page.

1. For most assignments, you will not need to change the default values.
2. Change Number of Parts for multipart assignments. See Settings for each Assignment Part for details on how to set the weightings for multipart assignments.
3. To enable anonymous marking, select Yes in the Anonymous Marking setting. Once a student has submitted an assignment, it is possible to reveal their name. You will need to provide a reason to do so, such as instances of suspected plagiarism. If you need to reveal their names, please check the guidance on Identifying an anonymous student.
4. Change Allow submission of any file type? to Yes if students are required to submit files up to 100MB. Please note that not all file types will generate a Similarity Report and Turnitin only accepts limited file types. Review Accepted file types guidance.
5. To allow students to view their Similarity Report, change the Display Originality Reports to Students to Yes.
6. If the defaults don't meet your requirements for Turnitin assignments, change the defaults for your first Turnitin assignment and then check the box alongside Set these values as assignment defaults. The system will remember your defaults and apply them each time you set up a Turnitin assignment.

1. In the Grade settings, set the Maximum points for the Turnitin assignment.
2. Set the Grade to pass if required: This setting determines the minimum grade required to pass.

1. Set your Start, Due and Post Date. Note: For multipart assignments, set dates for each assignment part.
2. Start Date is when the Summary text area becomes visible to students.
3. Due Date is when the students are expected to submit their assignment, we recommend setting this between 9-5 Monday to Friday so IT, educational technology and course office support is available.
4. Post Date is when the feedback and marks are released to the student. This setting also controls the anonymity of the submissions. Once the Post Date is reached, the student names will be revealed.
5. For multipart assignments, you might need to change the Max Marks on each Assignment Part. For example, many assignments are set up as multipart assignments to enable students to submit supporting evidence, but only Part 1 of the assignment is graded. In this example, you would set Assignment Part 1 to 100 and all other Assignment Parts to 0.

This is the most important set of settings for a Turnitin assignment and you will need to change some of the defaults.

1. Allow Submissions after the Due Date: We recommend changing this setting to Yes. Submissions attempted after the due date are often not received by Turnitin and cannot be marked using Feedback Studio.
2. Report Generation Speed: This setting controls how quickly and how often similarity reports are generated.
   • Generate reports immediately (students can resubmit until the due date, After 3 submissions from one student, reports for those submissions generate after 24 hours). Similarity Reports for the initial submission by each student are generated immediately. Students may resubmit as often as they wish until the due date. Only the latest submission is available to the lecturer or student. Previous versions are removed. Student submissions will be compared against their peers submissions within the assignment on the due date, which may result in a change in the similarity index on the due date.
   • Generate reports on due date (students can resubmit until due date): Similarity Reports will not be generated for any submission until the due date and time of the assignment. Students may resubmit as many times as needed until the due date and time without receiving reports. Resubmissions may not be made after the due date and time of the assignment.
   • Generate reports immediately (students cannot resubmit) - Similarity Reports for all submissions will be generated immediately. Students cannot resubmit papers. Submissions must be deleted by the lecturer/course officer to enable resubmission. This option is not recommended as students are unable to resubmit and submissions are not checked against each other.
3. Select where to Store Student Papers. 
   • The default option is Standard Repository which is suitable for most submissions. 
   • No Repository can be chosen for formative submissions or for a confidential projects/commercially sensitive dissertations which should not be included in future similarity searches. For confidential submissions, once the assessment process is completed and you have downloaded and securely saved a copy of the confidential submission, feedback and grade -  you can remove the paper from the Turnitin submission inbox. Please note that as the paper was not saved in the Repository it is not recoverable.
4. The remainder of the options enable you to exclude certain searches from a Similarity Report and we do not recommend that any of these options are changed. These similarity report should be filtered in the Feedback Studio during the marking process instead.

If you choose not to check against any sources, the submissions to your assignment will remain as "pending" the generation of a similiarty report. You can still access the submission in the Feedback Studio in the usual way.

• If you have previously created a rubric this will be available in the rubric drop-down menu.
• If you would like to create a rubric select Launch Rubric Manager and follow the Create Turnitin Rubric guidance.

If you have multiple lecturers grading assignments, set up groups/groupings to manage the marking.

1. Add students to groups.
2. Set Group mode to Separate groups.
3. When you view the assignment, filter by separate groups to facilitate the marking process.

You can use the Restrict access settings to control the availability of content and activities based on one or more conditions, including date and group. 

Activity completion allows you to set completion criteria for a specific activity or resource.

Activities or resources with a completion criteria display a circle next to them in the Module index. The circle turns green (and is filled in) when the student meet the criteria. On the main module page, a tick and the word "done" appears against the item when the student meets the criteria. This helps students manage their progress on a module and staff can easily review student engagement and progress against key activities.

You can combine Restrict access and Activity completion to provide structured pathways through your module.

Apply the settings

1. Open the activity or resource.
2. Select Settings from the contextual navigation menu above the module name. This opens the activity settings.
3. Change the settings required.
4. Select Save and return to module to save any changes made.

Related guidance

• Select Save and display to review your Due and Post Dates.