Converting an existing Turnitin assignment to use the Plagiarism Review tool

If you have already created a Turnitin Assignment in WebCampus using the settings, you can convert the assignment to use the Plagiarism Review tool.

NOTE: If students have already submitted work to your Turnitin Assignment, you should not make any changes to its set up. This may result in student work being lost. If you have Turnitin Assignments to which students have already submitted work, contact the Office of Digital Learning for instructions on viewing and marking up student work outside of SpeedGrader.

Step 1: Select the course in which you would like to create your assignment.

Step 2: From the left-hand navigation, select Assignments (1). Find the Turnitin Assignment that you’d like to convert to the Plagiarism Review framework, and click on the three dots to the right of the assignment name (2).

Screenshot of the WebCampus Assignments page, with Assignments on the course menu marked as number 1 and the additional options button marked with number 2.

Figure 1: Screenshot of the WebCampus Assignments page, with Assignments on the course menu marked as number 1 and the additional options button marked with number 2.

Step 3: On the menu that appears, click Edit.

Step 4: On the Edit Assignment pop up, select More Options.

Screenshot of the Edit Assignment pop up panel with More Options noted with a red box.

Figure 2: Screenshot of the Edit Assignment pop up panel with More Options noted with a red box.

Step 5: Scroll down to the Submission Type settings. It should currently be set to “External Tool.” Choose Online as the submission type, and then choose Text Entry or File Uploads (or both).

Screenshot of the Submission Type box with a red box around the Submission drop down menu, and red arrows indicating Text Entry and File Uploads.

Figure 3:  Screenshot of the Submission Type box with a red box around the Submission drop down menu, and red arrows indicating Text Entry and File Uploads.

If you want to ensure that students are submitting file in which Turnitin can generate a similarity report, choose to Restrict Upload File Types to readable text files such as pdf, doc, docx, pptx, etc. More information on files that Turnitin accepts.

Step 6: Choose the number of submission attempts you want to give to your students.

Step 7: Select Turnitin from the Plagiarism Review drop-down menu.

Screenshot of the Plagiarism Review box with drop down menu showing, and a red arrow pointing to the Turnitin Plagiarism Review setting.

Figure 4: Screenshot of the Plagiarism Review box with drop down menu showing, and a red arrow pointing to the Turnitin Plagiarism Review setting.

Step 8: Once you have selected Plagiarism Review in the drop down, additional options will appear. Choose to store papers in the repository or not, choose to which repositories you want to compare the submissions, choose to exclude the bibliography, quoted material, translated matching (if enabled), and small sources as needed.

Screenshot of Turnitin submission settings.

Figure 5: Screenshot of Turnitin submission settings.

Step 9: Choose if you would like to Save these settings as default settings and when you want to show the originality report to students.

Screenshot of Turnitin submission settings with arrow pointing to Save as default settings.

Figure 6: Screenshot of Turnitin submission settings with arrow pointing to Save as default settings.

Step 10: Choose if this is going to be a Group Assignment, if you want to use Canvas Peer Review, and if you want to enable Anonymous Grading.

Step 11: Assign this to Everyone or Everyone Else to ensure the due date is reflected in Turnitin. Choose a Due Date, Available from date, and an Until date as needed.

Screenshot of Assign To box.

Figure 7: Screenshot of Assign To box.

Step 12: Select Save and publish to publish this assignment. Select Save to save the assignment without publishing.