Esyin Chew

Senior Lecturer in Technology Enhanced Learning, Teaching and Assessment

echew@glam.ac.uk

through Blackboard Training for

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Visualise the Prize – work in an university / college…

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Objectives The online submission and plagiarism checking: JISC TurnitinUK

1. To understand the concept and advantages of JISC Turnitin through Blackboard

2. To set up a Turnitin assignment in Blackboard, submit an assignment and interpret the originality report.

3. To mark online or to download students’ assignment for marking

4. Conclusion and Q&A

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• Have you heard of or used Turnitin?

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A. JISC Turnitin2

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Turnitin is recognised worldwide as the standard online plagiarism prevention service.

• Turnitin is the first choice for 450,000 academics in 100 countries at over 6,500 institutions with over 60 millions student papers proceed!

• 95% of UK universities (incl Oxford, Cambridge, Cardiff & Glamorgan) use this award winning technology.

1. What is Turnitin?

Lecturer

Student

1. To understand the concept and advantages

Create

Assignment

Submission link

Option 1: Download/ Print + mark offline

Option 2: Mark online (GradeMark + Grade Centre)

Submit assignment

Turnitin Originality Report

Resubmit assignment before the due date

After the due date…

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Turnitin Originality Report

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Screen Shot for an Originality report

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Screen Shot for an new Originality report

Turnitin • searches against over 9 billion pages of web content,

more than 10,000 subscription-based journals and periodicals articles

• searches against previously submitted paper• supports Originality Reports and content searches in 30

languages• A tool to help you!

1. What is Turnitin?

1. To understand the concept and advantages

Lecturer• Automated submission process • Promote academic integrity (avoid

plagiarism) • Everything is on Blackboard!• Remove administrative hassles • Online assessment - give more feedback

and speed up the marking process

Student • Flexible submission & reduce cost• “wish all tutors use it…”• Formative assessment • Improve academic integrity • Digital receipt • Assessment feedback

11Sources from “Turn it in or Turn it off project” (2010)

Create

an assignment

Submission Link

Lecturer

Student

2. To set up Turnitin assignment in Blackboard

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2. To set up Turnitin assignment in Blackboard

Steps (Blackboard 9.1): 1. Log into Blackboard

2. Select any of your teaching module (or CELT training module)

3. Click on the “Assessment” button

4. Turn on the edit mode (top right corner)

5. Add Interactive Tool and Select “TurnitinUK Assignment”

6. Select “Paper Assignment”

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2. To set up Turnitin assignment in Blackboard

Steps (Turnitin):

1. Assignment Title: Assignment – [Your Name] 2. Point Value: 100 3. Start Date: [Today date] [now] 4. Due Date: [Today date] [1 hour later]

5. Post Date: [20 days from the due date] 12.00am (Must be set after the due date)

The University norm for electronic submission is Midnight (or 11.59 pm or 12.00am the next day) on the day of submission; or 4.00pm if you require hard copies.

This is when marked assignments will become visible to students. At Glamorgan this is 20 working days maximum, though lecturers could choose to promise an earlier return date.

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6. Click on the “Submit” button

Steps (Turnitin):

1. You can edit the Turnitin submission link through the Control Panel -> Course Tools -> TurnitinUK Assignments -> [your assignment] -> “edit assignment” tab

• Or “item option” -> “Edit”

2. “More Options”: • Instruction: “Use this link to submit your assignment. Full details for the

requirements of this assignment can be found on this page in the file titled ‘Coursework Guidance’. Shortly after you have submitted your assignment via the View/Complete link you will be able to use this same link to view your originality report. By submitting your assignment through the following link, you have agreed to declare that this assignment is your own work and that the sources of information and material you have used (including the internet) have been fully identified and properly acknowledged as required in the referencing guidelines provided.”

• Generate Originality Reports for student submissions – “immediately (can overwrite reports until due date)”

You have a choice to use the originality report in a formative way, as we recommend, or only summatively (“immediately - first report is final”).

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2. To set up Turnitin assignment in Blackboard

Steps (Turnitin):

• Exclude bibliographic materials from Similarity Index for all papers in this assignment?

• Exclude quoted materials from Similarity Index for all papers in this assignment?

• Exclude small matches?• Allow students to see Originality Reports?• Allow submissions after the due date?

Finally click on the “Submit” button to confirm the change(s) made.

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2. To set up Turnitin assignment in Blackboard

Create

assignment

Lecturer

Student

Submit assignment

2. To submit an assignment

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3. To submit an assignment from a student’s view

A quick walkthrough: • Select “CELT Training Module (2008/09)”• Click on the “Assessment” button• What happens after the due date? E.g. Criminology Project

• Submission before due date: Intro to Social Research Method• Assignment information • Click on the “Submit” button• Select “File Upload” • Student name will appear by default • Assignment title followed by a hyphen and then the student ID,

i.e. Assignment1-08123456• Digital receipt will be shown. • Turnitin will e-mail a receipt to the student’s university e-mail

account:

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3. To submit an assignment from a student’s view

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Create

assignment

Lecturer

Student

Turnitin Originality Report

Submit assignment

2. To interpret the originality report

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Turnitin Originality Report

1. Go to “Control Panel” and click on: “Course Tools” “TurnitinUK Assignments” Click your coursework submission link

2. Sorting by column header• Click any of the column names with a downward pointing arrow to the right.

Click a second time to re-sort in the opposite direction, e.g. A-Z becomes Z-A

3. Select the percentage indication bar under “report” heading to view the Originality Report.

2. To interpret the originality report

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2. To interpret the originality report

What is a Originality Report?

• It is Turnitin’s analysis of the submitted assignment, identifying any sections with matched text which may indicate plagiarism.

• An Originality Report is typically generated within 10 to 15 minutes of submission. The report generation time may vary due to the levels of usage during certain periods of the academic year or due to a very large submission.

• Pedagogically, it is not meant to penalise a student but to improve their academic integrity by avoiding plagiarism.

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Previous side-by-side comparison

Turnitin2 side-by-side comparison

1. The Originality Report is separated into three main sections in the default view:

• Top section: a summary of the assignment and submission information.• Left section: assignment text with highlighted area for potential plagiarism

detected (Note: exclude quoted or exclude bibliography). • Right section: information about sources which match the text.

2. The functions for excluding material are approximate and human judgement has to be used to determine if this is a case of poor referencing (which would get a poor mark) or plagiarism which is an academic offence.

3. Quotations can only be excluded if the quotation is shown with block-indentation or with quotation marks (“”) at the start and end.

2. To interpret the originality report

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Originality Report75 -100% Matching text

50 - 74% Matching text

25 - 49% Matching text

0 - 24% Matching text

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1. In the old originality report, the color of the report icon indicates the overall similarity index of the paper, based on the amount of matching or similar text that was uncovered. The possible similarity indices are:

2. IMPORTANT: These indices DO NOT reflect Turnitin’s assessment of whether a paper has or has not been plagiarised. Originality Reports are simply a tool to help an instructor and student find sources that contain text similar to submitted papers.

3. The decision to deem any work plagiarised must be made carefully, and only after in depth examination of both the submitted paper and suspect sources in accordance with the standards of the class and institution where the paper was submitted.

Create

assignment

Lecturer

Student

Turnitin Originality Report

Resubmit assignment before the due date

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Resubmission

Same process with the first submission:

• Click on the “Submit” button• Select “File Upload” • Student name will appear by default • Assignment title followed by a hyphen and then the student

ID, i.e. Assignment1-08123456• Digital receipt will be shown. • Turnitin will e-mail a receipt to the student’s university e-mail

account. • However the originality report will be generated 24 hours

later.

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2. To submit an assignment

2. To submit an assignment

Odd Case / Special Case

1. Go back to the Turnitin Assignment Inbox through the Course Tools

2. Click “Submit Paper”

3. Submit a dummy student paper with your name. • Only these formats are accepted: Word, RTF, PDF, HTML, Postscript,

Plain text (.txt)• You cannot submit a file which is larger than 20Mb.

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Create

assignment

Lecturer

Student

Turnitin Originality Report

Resubmit assignment before the due date

Option 1: Download + mark offline

Option 2: Mark online (Grade Mark + Grade Centre)

3. To download students’ assignments

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To download: Assignment Inbox -> select the paper(s) -> Download -> Original File

Reminder I: To see the Assignment Inbox

(class performance)

Control Panel -> Course Tools ->

“TurnitinUK Assignments”

Reminder II:• What is ‘roster sync’ for?• The roster sync function on the assignment inbox enables the students

enrolled in the VLE course to be listed on the assignment inbox. This makes it quick and easy to see which students have not submitted their work. If an assignment is being re-used from a previous year, it is recommended that the roster sync is used to list the new enrolments; this will prevent students getting an error message saying they are not enrolled for that assignment.

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Recap Objectives

1. To understand the concept and advantages of JISC Turnitin through Blackboard

2. To set up a Turnitin assignment in Blackboard, submit an assignment and interpret the originality report.

3. To mark online or to download students’ assignment for marking

4. Conclusion and Q&A

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TurnitinUK SupportTurnitinUK Helpdesk by web submission

TurnitinUK Helpdesk by phone: 08456430105

Lecturer• Automated submission process • Promote academic integrity (avoid plagiarism) • Everything is on Blackboard!• Remove administrative hassles • Online assessment - give more feedback and speed up the marking

process

Student • Flexible submission & reduce cost• “wish all tutors use it…”• Formative assessment • Improve academic integrity • Digital receipt • Assessment feedback

Conclusion

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Q&A

Dr. Esyin ChewSenior Lecturer in Technology Enhanced Learning, Teaching and Assessment echew@glam.ac.uk

Steve Woodward Curriculum Advice Officer for Technology Enhanced Learning swoodwar@glam.ac.uk

Wiki for the Glamorgan Turnitin experience: Turnitin.wetpaint.com

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