Instructors can create a Turnitin assignment within their Brightspace course(s).

Assignment Details

1. Login to Brightspace and access your course.
2. From your course navbar, click Course Activities and select Assignments.
3. Click New Assignment.
4. Enter a Name for the assignment.
5. To evaluate the assignment with a numeric value, enter a Grade Out Of. The grade item is automatically added to your gradebook.
5. Set a Due Date.
6. Add any date and condition preferences in the Availability Dates & Conditions section.
7. Enter any preferences in the Submission & Completion section.
8. Expand the Evaluation & Feedback section
9. Under Turnitin Integration, click Manage Turnitin.
10. To enable Enable similarity checking to identify matching or similar text to sources in Turnitin's databases, check the box next to Enable Similarity Report for this folder.
    1. If checked, you can optionally check the box to Allow learners to see similarity scores in their submission folder under Display.
11. Under Submissions Checked, choose either Automatic similarity checking on all submissions or Identify individual submissions for similarity checking
12. Under Online Grading, check the box if you would like to Identify individual submissions for similarity checking.
    1. If checked, choose to either Automatically sync grades as Draft in Brightspace or Manually sync grades as Draft in Brightspace.
13. To set additional preferences, click More Options. The options available are detailed in the section below.
14. Click Save.
15. Click Save and Close.

Optional Settings

Optional settings can be specified to tailor the submission details, grading, and originality report for the Turnitin assignment.

Submission Settings

1. Under Submit Papers To, you are able to choose between two options for where papers are stored within Turnitin - Do Not Store the Submitted Papers and Standard Paper Repository. Choosing Do Not Store the Submitted Papers will not store the paper within the Turnitin database, making it impossible for Turnitin to look for collusion between papers submitted to Turnitin. Standard Paper Repository is the default option and will include submitted papers into the Turnitin database.
2. Choose whether to Enable grammar checking using ETS e-rater® technology. E-rater^® Grammar Check provides you with the option to have a spelling and grammar check ran on all submissions to an assignment. When enabled student's will receive detailed grammar feedback using GradeMark automatically through the e-rater technology. Selecting Yes to enable the grammar check with expand to include customizable options for grammar check.
3. Choose whether to Attach a rubric.

Compare Against

1. Choose Student paper repository to check submissions against papers submitted to the Turnitin paper repository from institutions from around the world.
2. Choose Current and archived web site content to check the student's work against our vast store of webpages, that includes a constantly updated collection of pages and archived pages.
3. Choose Periodicals, journals and publications to check the student's work against Turnitin's database of scholarly journals and other publications.

Similarity Report

1. Under Generate Similarity Reports for student submission, use the drop down menu to select one of the following:
   1. Generate reports immediately (students cannot resubmit) - Similarity Reports for all submissions will be generated immediately. Students cannot resubmit papers. Submissions must be deleted by the instructor to enable resubmission.
   2. Generate reports immediately (students can resubmit until due date) - Similarity Reports for the initial submission by each student user to this assignment will be generated immediately. Students may resubmit as often as the student wishes until the assignment due date. Students can view their initial Similarity Report, then revise and resubmit their work up to three times, without having to wait 24 hours for an updated report. After three resubmissions have been made, the 24-hour report generation wait time will be restored. Only the latest submission is available to the instructor or student. Previous versions are removed. Student submissions will compare against one another within the assignment on the due date and time, which may result in a change in the Similarity Report similarity index and results at the due date and time. This option is typically used when students are self-reviewing and revising their submissions and able to view the Similarity Report. No resubmissions after the due date and time of the assignment.
   3. Generate reports On Due Date (students can resubmit until due date) - Similarity Reports will not be generated for any submission until the due date and time of the assignment. Students may resubmit as many times as needed until the due date and time without receiving reports. Resubmissions may not be made after the due date and time of the assignment.
2. Choose whether to Exclude bibliographic materials. This setting allows instructors to choose to exclude text appearing in the bibliography, works cited, or references section of student papers from being checked for matches when generating Similarity Reports.
3. Choose whether to Exclude quoted materials. This setting allows instructors to choose to exclude text appearing in the quotes from being checked for matches when generating Similarity Reports.
4. Choose whether to Exclude small sources. If selected, you may exclude small matches by selecting either Exclude by word count or Exclude by percentage.
   1. You are able to exclude small matches from an originality report, these can be set by a specific word limit or percentage value. For example if you do not want the originality report to show matches that are under 10 words you can set it here.

Exclude Assignment Template

If utilized, instructors can choose to upload or create a template of text to be automatically excluded from the Similarity Report. Once a submission has been made to the assignment, templates can no longer be added or edited.

Additional Settings

If desired, instructors are able to Save these settings for future use.