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What is a Turnitin Assignment?

Turnitin is an integrated service in AsULearn for faculty and students that provides a number of writing-related tools:

• Originality Report: Identifies similarities between student writing submissions with a database of billions of webpages, journal articles, periodicals, publications, and stored student papers, in order to address uncited quotations and facilitate a discussion about integrity in academic writing.
• AI writing detection solution built for educators: AI writing detection technology to attempt to distinguish between AI- and human-written text that is specialized for student writing. This report layer is now integrated into the Feedback Studio. NOTE: Turnitin added this service with the warning that it may or may not continue. More information at Turnitin's AI Writing Detection page. 
• Feedback Studio: A tool specifically designed to provide feedback for evaluating writing with drag-and-drop custom comments, voice feedback, and support for grading with rubrics/grading forms. Also displays originality, grading, ETS, and AI report layers.
• Peer Mark: A tool to set up peer review of existing Turnitin assignment submissions.

Turnitin How-To Videos

These videos were produced by Turnitin (in the previous version of AsULearn) with steps to complete these tasks. Once you click on the Turnitin Assignment, their interface has largely gone unchanged, except for the addition of the AI score panel on the right.

Create a Turnitin Assignment in your course

Read and Interpret a Turnitin Originality Report in Feedback Studio

Provide Student Feedback using Feedback Studio

Submit a Turnitin Assignment as a Student, View Feedback provided by your Instructor 

How to Create a Turnitin Assignment in your course:

• Create a Turnitin Assignment (0:00)
• Modify all settings for the Assignment (00:19)
• Creating a Turnitin Rubric for Grading, as opposed to max points; Rubric Manager (4:25)
• Configuring e-Rater (ETS) spelling and grammar checks (5:46)

Begin by going to the course, Enable edit mode at the top right, then click +Add an activity or resource in the desired topic. On the All or Activities tab in the chooser, click Turnitin Assignment. Then, follow the video below:

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How to Read and Interpret a Turnitin Originality Report in Feedback Studio:

• Navigating submissions (0:00)
• Feedback Studio layers (00:49)
• Similarity layer with Originality report score, comparison with sources (1:04)
• E-rater layer with spelling and grammar recommendations (5:55)
• Paper information, Download reports, and Text-Only Viewer (6:30)

Begin by going to the course and clicking on your existing Turnitin Assignment. Then, follow the video below:

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How to Provide Student Feedback using Feedback Studio:

• Navigating submissions (0:00)
• Accessing Feedback Studio (00:39)
• Grading layer with QuickMarks, QuickMark sets, drag/drop, text comments, sentence highlights/strikeouts/comments, (00:49)
• Associate QuickMarks with an existing rubric (5:23)
• Overall feedback, Voice comments (5:50)
• Rubric/Grading Guide grading interface; Grades automatically inserted in AsULearn Gradebook (6:15)
• Grade paper, grade automatically inserted in AsULearn Gradebook
• Paper information, Download reports, and Text-Only Viewer (7:00)

Begin by going to the course and clicking on your existing Turnitin Assignment. Then, follow the video below:

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How to Submit a Turnitin Assignment as a Student, and How to View Feedback provided by your Instructor:

• Understanding deadlines and max points, accessing rubrics (0:00)
• Uploading your submission, Digital receipt (0:48)
  • NOTE: If you have never agreed to the Turnitin Terms of Service EULA, you will be presented with it. You must agree in order to proceed.
• Accessing your Similarity layer, if enabled by the instructor (01:13)
• Accessing the e-rater layer, if enabled by the instructor (2:26)
• Re-submissions (3:00)
• Viewing assignment grade and feedback after Post Date passes (3:14)
• Paper information, Download reports, and Text-Only Viewer (4:08)

This video and steps for submitting are available to students. Begin by going to the course and clicking on the Turnitin Assignment created by the instructor. Then, follow the video below:

Turnitin.com also offers a set of general support pages for using Turnitin in Moodle (AsULearn).

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