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Setting up an Assignment with Turnitin

Monitor for plagiarism and AI use

Updated over a month ago

Purpose

This article walks through the steps to setup a Turnitin Assignment.

Procedure

  1. Turn on Edit mode.

2. Click to add an activity.

3. Click the Turnitin Assignment tile.

4. Scroll down to Similarity Report Options – Do you want to exclude a small match of 5%? Put a number in the second to last box from the bottom and change Words to percent in the dropdown menu.

Similarity Report Options

5. Scroll down if you want Turnitin to check for grammar. If you do, change No to yes in the dropdown menu and check the feedback categories, e.g., usage, mechanics....

GradeMark Options

6. Adjust any other settings as you normally would - such as groups in Common Module Settings, and then save your changes.

Save and Cancel buttons

7. After clicking their assignment link in Moodle, students will see a submission link - lower right corner - and will be able to upload or drag their file to submit it.

Submit Paper link on student submission page

File upload box

8. Students will click the Submission button.

Add Submission button

9. For this test, a paper was submitted that was 100% copied after asking ChatGPT to write an essay about pets. Clicking the red triangle takes the instructor to the student paper and a side navigation tool bar.

Example: 100% similarity bar

10. Use the red buttons in the side navigation bar to interpret the originality report. Note the blue and white AI button at the bottom; this tells the instructor how much of the paper was generated by artificial intelligence.

Turnitin side navigation bar

If you have any questions, please contact LMS Support.

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