Faculty guide for Turnitin

Adding the Turnitin (TII) assignment feature to your course will help you verify the integrity of your students’ work. This will also allow students to gauge their own work and discourage the copy/paste temptation.

Adding a Turnitin Assignment to a Blackboard Course

1. Go to a content area of your course, such as Weekly Folders.
2. From the Build Content drop-down select TurnIt-In Assignment LTI.  A new window/tab will open with the form to create the new assignment.
3. Enter your assignment information and adjust settings. More information on each of the fields can be found at https://help.turnitin.com/feedback-studio/lti/instructor/creating-and-managing-assignment/assignment-settings.htm.
4. You will receive a message indicating the successful creation of the assignment in your Bb course.
5. Set assignments to open in a new window:
   1. Go to the content area of the course the assignment was deployed
   2. From the assignment item drop-down select Edit
   3. In the Web Link section of the Edit page select “Open in New Window” to “Yes”

Updating Turnitin Assignment Settings

1. Go to the content area of your course where the assignment has been deployed.
2. If you are updating anything other than the Start Date for the assignment select the Edit option. For the Start Date, select the Adaptive Release option.
3. Make the desired changes and click Submit.  If you add a date restriction in the Edit area for start date/time be sure to update or remove the option from the Adaptive Release page.

Viewing Student Submitted Turnitin Assignments

1. Go to the Gradebook or Weekly Folders where the assignment is deployed.
2. Click on the title of the assignment that you wish to view
3. This screen will show you all the submitted work for this assignment.
4. To view a paper, click the paper's title.
5. To view an Originality Report, click the paper's Originality Report icon in the report column. 
6. Use the grading tools in the Turnitin Feedback Studio to provide feedback and a score on each submission. *Note: students cannot view feedback until the assignment's Post Date.

Turnitin Tips

• Clarification: This tool does not verify APA formatting, only similarity matches.
• All similarity matches should be reviewed and verified. Changes to settings, assignment templates, and other factors may affect the similarity matches. 
• You determine what the target % range is for your course (5-10% is an acceptable range for an academic report, with proper citations).
• Allow students to view their own originality report, this will take away the anxiety of Turnitin being a “caught you” tool and more of a “learn what you did wrong and how you can improve” tool.