In the recent past, if you wished to use Turnitin in AsULearn, your only option was to use the Turnitin Assignment activity. Now, we have also deployed a new 'Plagiarism Plugin' that allows you to enable Turnitin for a regular AsULearn assignment, and for AsULearn forum posts. If you have group assignments and need Turnitin, this is a real game changer, since the Turnitin assignment type does not support groups, and AsULearn assignments do. It's also a new potential solution if you have originality concerns with forum posts in AsULearn.
See also: Turnitin's Instructor Support Pages for the Moodle Plagiarism Plugin.
Please note that the Turnitin Assignment type will remain, and you may continue to use it as in the past. The new "Turnitin Plagiarism Plugin" has been added so that you can access Turnitin's originality checking and feedback studio for AsULearn (Moodle) Assignments, and for posts that are made in AsULearn (Moodle) forums.
Enabling Turnitin on the Assignment and Forum 'Edit Settings' Page
To add Turnitin originality checking to an AsULearn Assignment or Forum, just follow the steps below.
- Turn Editing on in your course
- Add either an "Assignment" or a "Forum" activity to your course
- On the Edit settings page where you create the activity, you will now notice a section of settings called Turnitin plagiarism plugin settings.
- Open this section and set 'Enable Turnitin' to Yes.
- Watch a recording of a webinar hosted by Greg Simmons & Mary Beth McKee about using the Plugins in AsULearn Assignments and Forums: