Moodle Tutorials

1. Click on the button.
2. Click on the Add an Activity drop-down menu and click on TurnItIn.
3. Create an Assignment name, write an adequate Description for the assignment, and define the Grade type, Available from date for submission, and Due date.
4. Set whether to allow students to submit late or not. After the due
   date & time, students will be
   blocked unless late submissions are enabled.

Note: The Available from and Due date are required settings when creating a TurnItIn assignment.

5. Click on when you are finished.

You will be redirected to the TurnItIn page for Moodle.

1. You may choose to click Submit to proceed with posting the assignment as it is...
2. You may also choose to further customize the assignment by configuring the following options:
   1. Generate Originality Reports for submissions?
      This option allows instructors to view the Originality Reports for submissions to an assignment in the assignment’s inbox.
   2. Generate Originality Reports:
      1. Immediately (first report is final): students are only allowed one submission.
      2. Immediately (can overwrite previous reports until due date): students may overwrite previous submissions.
      3. On due date (generate report on the due date): Report only generated on the due date.
   3. Allow students to see Originality Reports? This option gives you the choice of whether or not students can see their Originality Reports in their class assignment portfolio.
   4. Submit papers to: Leave it to the default setting (standard paper repository).

Note: If you set it to ‘no repository’, then the papers turned in would not be stored in the database and used for future plagiarism searches.

5. Search options: Make sure that all three boxes are checked, that will allow a greater percentage of accuracy in the results.
5. Click on  to make the assignment available.
6. It will then show you a preview of how the assignment appears to the students and shows the Due date and Time.

1. Click on Assignments in the Administration Block. Then click on the assignment to be reviewed.
2. Click on View # submitted assignments.
3. The following page resembles a typical inbox with the submitted assignments listed with the Author’s name, the paper’s title and the similarity report.
4. The colors indicate whether the paper is plagiarized or not. Red represents high levels of suspected plagiarism and Green represents that the paper is original. There is also a percentage value next to the color that represents the overall amount of the paper that was plagiarized.
5. If you click on the colored graphic under report, a detailed report is shown that includes the plagiarized sources that the paper used.
6. The bibliography listed on the right hand side of the screen is numbered to correspond with the different sections of the paper. This shows where each section was plagiarized from.
7. Further, the bibliography may show a Paper ID if it matches a paper that was submitted by another student elsewhere; it may also show a website URL if the material came from a website.

1. Click on the Roster Sync button in the assignment inbox.
2. A message will appear reporting: 'Synchronizing Class Roster...'
3. This will import a list of all students currently enrolled in the Moodle course for the assignment.

Note: This function can also be used to remove student users who are no longer enrolled in the course. All submissions and data for students that are removed by a Roster Sync will disappear from all TurnItIn assignments in the course.

1. Click on Assignments in the Administration Block. Then click on the assignment to be reviewed.
2. Click on View # submitted assignments in the top right corner of the assignment view.
3. Click on the assignment title you would like to grade. The assignment will pop up in a new window.
4. The new window will display the paper.  Enter the grade for the assignment in the blank box next to “Grade for this paper."
5. Then, click the next icon, which is located beside the maximum grade value of the assignment.

1. Click on the course where the assignment is due for.
2. Click on the assignment in the course page. E.g. Paper 1
3. It gives you the description/ question and the Due date and Time.
4. Click on Submit to proceed with handing in the assignment.
5. The following page has a User Agreement Disclaimer for which you have to simply click . Note that this step is for the first time only.
6. Click on the Submit Icon on the following page.
7. TurnItIn allows students to submit papers in two ways:
1. You may choose to upload the file by browsing it from a location. For this option, make sure that the submit a paper by: is set to
2. The second option is to copy and paste the paper. Set the submit a paper by: to . A student will then be able to paste the text of their paper into the text window that appears in the bottom of the screen.
8. You will be next required to enter your name (which is usually entered by default). You will also need to enter submission title, which can be like a subject (e.g. Assignment 1).
9. Click on  to post the assignment.