How To Create a Turnitin Assignment Through Moodle

Turnitin assignments help lecturers evaluate the originality of students’ work by comparing the submitted assignment to a database of online sources stored by Turnitin. It returns an originality report which highlights texts that appear in other sources and gives a rating based on how much of the text is potentially copied from other sources.

To create a new Turnitin assignment, you must add the Turnitin assignment to the moodle course page. Next, add a Start date, Due date, Post date and Max marks to each part of the assignment. Finally, you can open the turnitin app through moodle and add further settings within Turnitin itself.

1. On your course page, click Turn editing on (top right). Editing icons and links will appear
2. In the Section where you will add a Turnitin assignment, click +Add an activity or resource (at lower-right of section). The Activity chooser will open

3. In the Activity chooser, select Turnitin assignment. A description of the Turnitin assignment activity appears at right with links to help pages

   
4. At the bottom of the Activity chooser, click Add. The Adding a new Turnitin assignment page will open
5. To configure basic settings for the Turnitin assignment, see Turnitin Moodle Configuration (below)
6. After creating the assignment in Turnitin, give each part of the assignment its own Start date, Due date, Post date and Max marks

When you add a Turnitin assignment activity to a Moodle course, you are required to set the assignment's name, and the Submission Type. The remaining settings are optional. This section describes some of the common settings used by IMC lecturers

Number of parts

Specify whether students can submit multiple parts of their assignment, for example if they should submit their assignment and cover sheet separately

Note: If an assignment has been created with multiple parts, that each part must have its start date, end date, post date and max grade set separately

Student Originality report

Specify whether students can see the Originality Reports that Turnitin generates. The default is No

Turnitin Advanced Options -> Allow late submissions to be submitted

Set this to Yes if you want to allow students to submit beyond the due date. Late submissions will have their submission time highlighted in red in the submission box

Grade

Enter the maximum points that can be earned. The default is 100

After creating the correct settings, press the Save and display button on the bottom of the page. This will create the Turnitin assignment in Moodle. Now, we need to edit each part of the assignment for its start date, due date, post date and max grades.

Click on the edit button for each part of the assignment, then input the correct Start date, Due Date, Post Date and Max marks for each part of the assignment

Start Date The earliest date that students can start to submit their assignment

Due date The latest date that students can submit their assignment. If the late submission option is enabled, students will still be able to add to their assignment, but not edit an existing assignment

Post date The date that students will be able to see their marks and lecturer reviews on their assignments

Max mark Enter the maximum points that can be earned in this part. The default is 100