Prevent Plagiarism. Engage Students.

Turnitin improves the student writing cycle by preventing plagiarism and providing rich feedback to students.

OriginalityCheck
Like everything else in today's digital culture, plagiarism is moving online. Turnitin's OriginalityCheck helps instructors check students' work for improper citation or potential plagiarism by comparing it against the world's most accurate text comparison database

GradeMark
Paperless grading is finally here! GradeMark saves instructors time and provides richer feedback to students by enabling editorial highlights, custom comments, and QuickMark editing marks directly on the student papers.

PeerMark
Students don't just learn from instructors they also learn from one another. PeerMark facilitates peer review so that students can evaluate each other's work and learn from their classmates.

For a quick demonstration click here... https://turnitin.com/static/videos/demo_tiisuite.html

UCBC Turn It In guide 2011

Head of eLearning: Deb Millar

BENEFITS OF E-ASSESSMENT

OriginalityCheck allows you to:

SEE THE ORIGINAL WORK Turnitin preserves the original format of the paper allowing instructors to view the student's original text, formatting, imagery and layout. VIEW STUDENT'S SOURCES Matched sources from the paper appear in an easy-to-understand format revealing color-coded sources corresponding to non-original work. ACCESS THE LEADING TEXT DATABASE The Turnitin databases contain 14 billion current and archived web pages, 150 million student papers and millions of articles from libraries and publications. 24/7 ACCESS FROM A WEB BROWSER Turnitin is completely online and available anytime through a standard web browser. UNDERSTAND WHAT IS ORIGINAL AND WHAT ISN'T Turnitin shows how much of the student's paper matches content from our databases so instructors can quickly understand how much of the paper is unoriginal. CHANGE ORIGINALITYCHECK TO MEET YOUR NEEDS Control what information appears in your originality report by filtering out bibliographic, quoted or small match sizes. VIEW ONE COMPREHENSIVE REPORT Instructors can easily move between or overlay OriginalityCheck, GradeMark and PeerMark reports to gain a full understanding of the written work.

Using TII benefits (from a UCBC point of view):

NO UCBC BARCODING SYSTEM REQUIRED. TII & MOODLE time stamp all work. However, it would be beneficial if you are to set the time to 23:00 on the day of the deadline. This is for two reasons. Firstly, EBS doesnt track times of submissions, only the dates, so its not meaningful to EBS to set a deadline for a particular time during the day. That would make the obvious choice of submission time 23:59 but that can cause problems when the clocks change. Whatever is shown on the screen, Moodle actually stores times as GMT so at certain times of the year a submission after 23:00 can look like it was submitted the day after, making 23:00 the safest choice.
MAINTAIN AND IMPROVE OUR ACADEMIC REPUTATION

Using TII safeguards the Centre and your individual academic reputation. NO UCBC COVER SHEET TO COMPLETE (although it will be necessary for students to be aware of this. Each module tutor should go through this before submission and upload as a check list for students to refer to if required).

UCBC Turn It In guide 2011

Head of eLearning: Deb Millar

I GradeMark has further benefits:

SAVE TIME WITH STANDARD AND CUSTOM MARKS

Save time and provide better feedback by quickly dragging standard or custom marks and comments directly on the paper.

TRACK PERFORMANCE

Analyse and identify areas of concern, or track improvement with comprehensive statistics and graphs. This highlights particular study skill needs for individuals and/or groups these could then be dealt with as a collective group, with sessions being run this would then remove the need to do individual tutor referrals saving on paperwork/procedures AND potentially could improve overall performance/achievement of the group

RICHER INTERACTIONS

GradeMark helps instructors have better interactions with students through richer feedback on their workimproving writing levels through online interactions

24/7 ACCESS FROM A WEB BROWSER

Turnitin is completely online and available anytime through a standard web browser. BETTER GRADING WITH CUSTOM RUBRICS Adjust the criteria, weights and scales of your custom rubrics to ensure delivery of clear feedback to students. PAPERLESS AND GREEN Save your back and trees by moving your grading online. In just the last year Turnitin users saved 180 million sheets of papers or nearly 11,000 trees. VIEW ONE COMPREHENSIVE REPORT Instructors can easily move between or overlay OriginalityCheck, GradeMark and PeerMark reports to gain a full understanding of the written work.

UCBC Turn It In guide 2011

Head of eLearning: Deb Millar

Using GradeMark benefits (from a UCBC point of view):

NO NEED TO COMPLETE ADDITIONAL UCBC ASSESSMENT FEEDBACK FORM.

Providing the Learning Outcomes are listed and referred to in the GradeMark General Comments field as well as each LO being identified as Achieved or Not Achieved; and each L.O. is commented on as on traditional paperwork. It is in the General Comments field where you will also provide General feedback /forward. o Please attend TII/GradeMark Staff Development for further guidance.

NO RETURNING WORK TO STUDENTS IN PERSON.

GradeMark will release grades with feedback automatically on the Post Date time and date that you set. TII also have a new feature called Monitor Student Engagement that will inform you whether students have opened and viewed the GradeMark feedback on their papers.

GRADEMARK SUPPORTS SECOND MARKING.

If you second mark a paper inset Second Marked by John Smith. In this case you will need to complete the UCBC standard paperwork as previously.
EXTERNAL EXAMINERS/FUTURE INSPECTIONS

Student papers with staff feedback and grades (also rubics if used) embedded can be saved as a PDF and emailed to Externals. Samples of work for previous three years must be saved to a permanent record device for future inspections i.e. CD rom (not USB which tend not to be as reliable). This will also reduce the amount of physical space for archives. EMPOWERS THE STUDENT Enables students to see where they have gone wrong and allows them to develop these areas at their own pace, which acts as giving ownership and responsibility back to the student, thus empowering the student . Improved student engagement and performance Increases student confidence and self esteem Therefore... Improved NSS feedback Improved perception regarding Course Management

UCBC Turn It In guide 2011

Head of eLearning: Deb Millar

Step-by-step guide on creating a TII submission portal on MOODLE.

Select and enter the virtual learning environment (VLE) where you wish to create the submission portal. Turn [Editing on]. Select the Add an activity drop down menu and scroll down to Turnitin Assignment
(bottom one)

A new page will appear. Complete the following using these settings... 1) Turnitin Assignment Name
(Please note that using certain symbols within the title such as @ may cause the link to TII to be unavailable, giving a API error)

IA30012/N1-1* Name of Assignment

In this field type in the title of your assignment with the module code i.e. IA30012 followed by the occurrence code/ followed by a hyphen -/ the number of the assignment (1of 3 = -1) / an asterisk* / a space / then title of assignment as I have above. This code IA30012/N1-1* will then be extracted from TII to inform the transcript dynamically, i.e. no more typing into green excel spreadsheets!

2) Summary

MOODLE requires that you MUST insert something in this box. Insert some guidance for submission i.e. Please upload your WORD/Text doc here (TII will not read PDFs)

3) Submission Type

[Any Submission Type]

Select the submission type for the assignment. The default is File Upload. Text submission will require your students to copy and paste their paper in a text box to submit their paper. You can let your students choose which submission type to use by selecting Any Submission Type. File Types and Size Turnitin currently accepts the following file types for upload into an assignment: Microsoft Word (DOC and DOCX) Corel WordPerfect HTML Adobe PostScript Plain text (TXT) Rich Text Format (RTF) Portable Document Format (PDF) The maximum file size is defined in the course settings and selected in the assignment set up screen. Files of larger size may be reduced in size by removal of non-text content. Files that are password protected, encrypted, hidden, system files, or read only files cannot be uploaded or submitted to Turnitin.

1) Number of Parts

[1]

Select the number of parts you want the assignment to have from the Number of Parts pull down menu. Each Turnitin assignment in the Moodle Direct Integration can have multiple parts associated with it. The student has to submit a file to each part to complete the assignment. The default is a one part assignment

UCBC Turn It In guide 2011

Head of eLearning: Deb Millar

2) Maximum File Size

[2/20MB]

Select the Maximum File Size for submissions. Turnitin allows up to 2MB for a text only submission and 20MB for a text and graphic submission. The maximum file size can be adjusted within the Moodle Course settings.

3) Overall Grade

[Select the appropriate grading scale for your course]

Select either NO GRADE / 100 (for percentage) / Btec HN grading scale / or create your own grading criteria i.e. Pass or Fail from the drop down menu. The default is 100.

4) Originality Reports

[Yes]

The Student Originality Reports option of assignment creation provides instructors with the ability to control whether students are allowed to view Originality Reports within each created assignment. Select yes to allow students to see the Originality Report for the assignment.

Turnitin Advanced Options

5)

Allow Late Submissions

[Yes]

The Allow Late submissions option allows students to submit work after the due date. Late submissions are marked as being late and the actual submission date is recorded. The default is set to no.

6) Report Generation Speed

Generate reports immediately, reports can be overw ritten until due date

There are three options for generating Originality Reports for student submissions: Generate reports immediately, first report is final - Originality Reports for all submissions will be generated immediately. Students cannot resubmit papers. Submissions must be deleted by the instructor to enable resubmission. Generate reports immediately, reports can be overwritten until due date - Originality Reports for the initial submission by each student user to this assignment will be generated immediately. Students may resubmit as often as the student wishes until the assignment due date. Originality Reports for the second or subsequent submission will require a 24 hour delay before the Originality Report begins processing. Only the latest submission is available to the instructor or student. Previous versions are removed. Student submissions will compare against one another within the assignment on the due date and time, which may result in a change in the Originality Report similarity index and results at the due date and time. This option is typically used when students are self-reviewing and revising their submissions and able to view the Originality Report. No resubmissions after the due date and time of the assignment. Generate reports on due date - Originality 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.

7) Store Student Papers

[Standard Repository]

Select this option, unless VETS students with MOD confidentiality issues please submit work to [No Repository]

Repository Resources for Originality Reports

The instructor is able to select the available repository sources to compare submissions in the assignment against. This allows an instructor to disregard a source type if the comparison against this type of source is not needed. There are three database search options: Check against stored student papers, Check against the internet, and Check against the journals, periodicals and publications. The default for each of these search options is set to Yes.

UCBC Turn It In guide 2011

Head of eLearning: Deb Millar

8) Check against stored student papers Check against internet Check against journals, periodicals and publications 9) Exclude Bibliography Exclude Quoted Material Exclude Small Matches 10) Now select [Save and display] Assignment Submission Dates

[Yes] [Yes] [Yes] [Yes] [No]

After completing the assignment settings and clicking on the Save and Display button you will be redirected to the Turnitin assignment page. Clicking on the Turnitin assignment from the course homepage also redirects you to the Turnitin assignment page. All the assignment dates are contained within the Summary tab for the Turnitin assignment. The due date will default to a week after the date the assignment was created.

11) To change the assignment dates click on the pencil icon to the right of the dates. Use the pull-down menus to change the date and times for the Start Date, Due Date, or the Post Date. You may also change the assignment part name and the assignment point value. Once you have finished editing the dates click on the check mark to save your changes. Start date = The start date defines the earliest time a student can make a submission to the assignment part. Due Date = This is the final date by which the student should have submitted their assignment. If you are allowing late submissions, the submissions will be marked as late after this date. NB. Set the deadline time to 23:00 see page 1. Post Date = This is the date when marks/grades will be released to students. If anonymous marking is turned on (UK only) this is also the date when marks will be released to students. NB. This should be set exactly 4 weeks after the Due Date to allow 3 weeks for first marker and the final week for the second marker. 12) When dates and times are set click [Submit]

UCBC Turn It In guide 2011

Head of eLearning: Deb Millar

13) The Options tab allows you to select various options for the Turnitin assignment.

General Settings 14) Auto Submit

[Submit to Turnitin Immediately on Upload]

By default as soon as a student uploads work it is sent to Turnitin for processing. You can switch this off and separate the loading of work into Moodle from the upload to Turnitin. If you separate this process the students would need to submit a draft and then separately click a button to upload the draft into Turnitin.

15) Results Per Page Grading Settings 16) Use GradeMark

[All]

[Your Choice]

UCBC is subscribed to GradeMark, you can use this setting to revert back to manually grading instead of using the Turnitin grading system.

17) Grade Display

[Your Choice]

This setting allows to select either a % score for grades (the default) or a fraction (xx/100) for the display of grades.

18) Auto Refresh Grades / Scores

[Your Choice]

By default the system will automatically attempt to refresh originality scores and grades, but this can be turned off if the instructor would rather do it manually.

19) Submission List

[List All Students]

By default all students are listed whether they have submitted to an assignment or not. However, if you prefer, you can opt to only see students in this list that have submitted work.

Comments Settings
An instructor can provide feedback to a student on the submission through a comments area. These settings determine how long comments remain editable and how many characters can be used.

20) Comments Remain Editable Maximum Comment Length 21) [Save Changes]

[No limit] [1500]

NB. TII is currently testing Spell Check for GradeMark in the US hopefully this will soon be released in the UK.
If you are having any problems please consult your School TII Mentor: SoEPS Peter Shukie (2509) / SoAHSS Adrian Sackman (2173) / SoB Stephanie Haworth (2859) / SoST Min Xie (2480) or myself Deborah Millar 2857.

UCBC Turn It In guide 2011

Head of eLearning: Deb Millar