Create Turnitin assignment submission links for students in Moodle courses (Staff)

1. Creating a Turnitin Assignment in a
Moodle Course - Basic Setting

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After logging in Moodle, click on the course you want to create a Turnitin assignment for students’ submission.
In this case, we click on “Demo Course”.

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Then click the Turn editing on button at the top right corner to switch to editing mode.

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After turning on the editing mode, under Topic outline (or Weekly outline), choose a topic (or week)
in which you want to create your Turnitin assignment. In this case, we choose Topic 2.

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Click on Add an activity to open the pull-down menu.

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Select Turnitin Assignment from the menu.

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On the page “Adding a new Turnitin Assignment to topic 2”, input the name of your Turnitin Assignment.

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In this case, we type in “Assignment 1 Learning Strategies”.

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Then input some text into the Summary box.

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You are suggested to give some information about your assignment, such as instructions or criteria, etc.
Say in this case, we type in “Submit your assignment by 20 November 2011”.

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After that, you need to choose the type of assignment that you allow your students to submit to you.

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By default, the Submission Type is set as File Upload, which allows students to attach a file for submission.

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The accepted formats for File Upload include: Microsoft Word, Plain Text, Rich Text Format, PDF and HTML.

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Click the Save and return to course button at the bottom of the page
to complete the steps for creating a Turnitin assignment.

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To complete the creation of Turnitin assignment, you must wait until the synchronization process is finished.

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You have successfully created a Turnitin assignment, “Assignment 1 Learning Strategies”, in Topic 2.

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Please note that the basic settings of a Turnitin assignment include:
1. allowing students to submit their assignment only ONCE;
2. allowing ONLY teachers to read the similarity report; and
3. setting the due date of assignment submission to be SEVEN days
after the assignment creation date.
All these settings can be changed in Turnitin Advanced Options.
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