TurnItIn for Instructors: Create a New Standard Assignment

1.Click on the "Add Assignment" button on the class homepage.

2.Select the Try Now button on the top blue banner.

3.Select the Standard Assignment with the “New” label in the top right corner.

Assignment Details

1. Add a title for the assignment.
2. Set the scheduling for the assignment:
   1. Start date and time- the date students will be able to start submitting to the assignment
   2. Due date and time - the date students will no longer be able to submit to the assignment
   3. Feedback release date and time - the date that any grading and feedback is visible to students. 
3. Upload an assignment Template for this submission that can be downloaded by students (for example: course submission work and Turnitin will exclude it from the similarity).

Template file requirements:

• Must be less than 100MB
• Supported file types - .docx, .xlsx, .pptx, .ps, .pdf, .html, .txt, .rft, .odt, .hwp.

4. Set the Max Points for that assignment (weight).

5. Hide student details for anonymous grading: Hide student names within the assignment when anonymized grading is required. Once the feedback release date has passed, all student names will be automatically appeared.

If it is necessary to reveal a student name before the feedback release date, the option to reveal their identity is available from the three-dot-menu at the end of the student’s row in the submission list. Revealing a student’s details cannot be reversed.

6. Allow late submissions: Allow students to submit after the due date has passed. If enabled, only one submission can be made if the student has not already submitted before the due date.

7. Allow unsupported file types:

Check this page for more information

Rubric

Within the Rubric tab, you can manage rubrics for grading your assignment. 

You can:

• Locate and select an existing rubric from three categories (rubrics you have created, rubrics shared across your institutional account, or pre-created rubrics provided by Turnitin).
• Import or create a new rubric by selecting Create Rubric. Check out our rubric creation guidance to learn more.
• Edit existing rubrics by selecting Launch Rubric Manager.

Check the Rubrics section for more information

Report Settings

Store student submissions

Select whether or not to store submissions to the assignment to a repository to be used for comparison against other submissions. The options available to you will depend on your institution’s account settings.

• Private Institutional repository - submissions are stored in a private repository that can only be used for comparison against other submissions within your institution.

• Do not store the submitted papers - submissions are not stored in a repository and will not be used for comparison to other submissions within this assignment or anywhere else in Turnitin.

Compare submissions

Compare submissions At least one source must be selected for comparison.

• General Turnitin repository: (Standard paper repository) - compares current submissions to previous students' submissions from other institutions.
• Private institutional repository : compares current submissions to previous students' submissions across your institution.
• Internet content : compares current submissions to a repository of billions of archived internet pages which is updated daily.
• Periodicals, journals and publications:  compares current submissions to many major professional journals, periodicals, and online books.

Generate report

• Time of submission - Similarity Reports will generate immediately after being uploaded to the assignment.

• On due date - all submissions’ Similarity Reports are generated at the same time on the due date.

Can the time of report generation affect the similarity score? It can, yes, but it depends on whether the assignment is also set to store submissions into a repository as submissions will be compared to each other while if it is not stored to a repository, submissions will not be compared to each other and will not affect on the similarity score.

Allow students to view Similarity Reports: By default, Turnitin allows students to see Similarity Reports. If it is not checked, the report will show Not Available to the students.

Exclusions

Exclude elements of written work to decrease similarity scores:

• Quoted materials

When the Exclude Quotes filter is active, the report will ignore any matches that use the following quotation marks (as well as quotations within a quotation):

Block quotations

The report will exclude indented blocks of text ( block quotations) when the original file is a .doc or .docx file.

• Bibliography 

Excluding Citations

The report looks for in-line citations and omits them from the list of matches. Both the citation and associated text will be excluded. 

Exclude Bibliography

Turnitin detects bibliographic reference materials when Exclude Bibliography filter is active. 

Note:

Terminating phrases

If one of the words below appears after a detected list of references, the similarity check will resume.

• Matches that are smaller than a set number of words

You can exclude sources that are less than a certain number of words. For example: filtering small matches by 10 words will exclude all sources with a match word count that is less than 10 words. The lowest word count threshold that can be set is 8 words, which is the default setting.

When ready, select Create Assignment.

Click on View to edit the assignment settings and check submissions.

The assignment details can be hidden and expanded using Show Details.

Within the assignment details, you can:

• Edit assignment settings. 
• Copy the assignment ID (you can send it to Turnitin administrator to return all available submissions associated with that assignment).
• Review the assignment's dates.
• Download a copy of the assignment template if one had already been uploaded. 

Individual extensions

Extensions can be provided to individual students to provide them with more time to submit to their assignment. To provide an extension:

1. Access the assignment.
2. Locate the student’s row of the submission list and select the three-dot More menu at the end of the row.
3. Select Grant extension.

4. A dialogue will open where you can set a number of days or hours to extend the due date for the selected student. The new extended due date will be displayed as you make your selections then Select Confirm.

5. the extended time will appear for the specified student in the submission list.

6. The instructor can edit extensions.

Insights

The insights tab within your assignment provides an overview of how each submission performed based on their overall grade and their rubric criteria.