Create a Turnitin Folder for Students to Self-Check Drafts
Students may want to check their own work via Turnitin before turning in a final paper or project. However, certain settings are needed to prevent the students’ work from incorrectly flagging if submitted to another course. For example, students in a writing seminar may want to have their paper evaluated by Turnitin, but may need to submit a final draft to another course.
By rule, Turnitin does not flag drafts of the same paper, submitted by the same student, in the same course. It will however flag a paper submitted by the same student to two or more courses, if each course is using Turnitin. This guide gives the correct settings for a general purpose, student accessible Turnitin folder, that will not add their papers to the Turnitin database for future plagiarism checking.
Note: No due date or assessment settings are used for this assignment, it is intended to be an ungraded workspace.
- From your D2L course, click on Activities and then Assignments from the course navigation bar.
- Find your assignment folder in the list, and click the menu to the right of the title.
- Click Edit Submission Folder from the drop down menu.
- Click on the Turnitin tab.
- Check the box for Enable GradeMark® for this folder. (Note: GradeMark must be enabled in order to enable Originality Check).
- Check the box to Enable Originality Check® for this folder.
- Allow learners to see Turnitin® similarity scores in their submission folder. (This will allow students to see their originality reports.)
- Click the More Options in Turnitin button.
- Click on the Optional Settings header to expand the menu.
- Scroll to the Submission settings dropdown menu.
- Select Do not store the submitted papers.
- Scroll to the Compare against settings.
- Uncheck the box for Student Paper Repository.
- Click Submit.
- Back in D2L, click the Save and Close button.
Note: It generally takes up to 30 minutes after a paper is submitted for the Turnitin report to generate.
This article was last updated on Nov 12, 2020 @ 4:31 pm.