Electronic Assignment Workflow for Turnitin via Blackboard to download student submissions as a .doc or .docx file This document describes the process for viewing the Turnitin Originality Report to evaluate academic integrity, downloading the student submission for marking, and entering the grade and feedback in the Grade Centre. This process requires that some steps are completed in your web browser and will involve using two browser windows (or tabs), some steps are completed in a separate application (MS Word). The image below shows the typical workflow required to process one student.
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Step 1 – Access Student Attempt from the Turnitin Assignment Inbox
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From the Control Panel in Blackboard choose Course Tools and scroll down to select the “Turnitin Assignment” tool From the list of Turnitin Assignments in your unit choose the one you wish to access
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The Turnitin Assignment Inbox will open in your browser window
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Step 4 – Open the Originality Report •
From the list of students click on the Similarity Index value in the appropriate row.
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The Originality Report will open in a separate browser window
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The text in the student’s file that matches at least one source in the Turnitin database will be highlighted and numbered. The similarity index (% Similar) is calculated as the number of highlighted words divided by the total number of words in the submitted file (excluding direct quotes and the reference list if you have selected for these to be ignored). As outlined in the Academic Integrity at Curtin: Staff Guidelines for Dealing with Student Plagiarism booklet, page 11, Curtin does not define a ‘safe’ level for the similarity index nor is there a level that signals that plagiarism has occurred. Go here for more information about the features available in the Document Viewer window.
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Step 3 – Download the Student’s Submission This step will download the student’s submitted file in whatever file format it was first created (this may be a .doc or .docx file but may be a .rtf or .txt file or .pdf file). You can download a single student’s submission, or create a .zip file containing a select number of files or all submitted files.
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To download a single student’s submission click on the File icon in the appropriate row.
• To download selected files, tick the box next to the student’s name, a yellow task bar will appear above the student list. • Click on the Download button and choose “Original File”
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To download all files as a .zip folder tick the box in the column heading to automatically tick all of the boxes for student’s with submissions. Click on the Download button.
Step 4 – Open the Student File • •
Open the .doc file in MS Word or other text editing application and use the commenting tools to provide feedback. If you downloaded a .zip file containing multiple files you will first need to unzip the file using an appropriate application on your computer.
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Step 5 – Access Student Attempt from the Grade Centre •
From the Control Panel in Blackboard choose Grade Centre. For units with large numbers of student and/or several assessment tasks in the Grade Centre you may wish to use the needs marking function or use the advanced group manager to set up smart views which will then be listed below the Full Grade Centre link.
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Students who have made a submission will have the needs grading icon (green exclamation symbol) in the appropriate column cell. Hover over the icon to show a menu, choose ‘Attempt’.
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Step 6 – Enter the Mark for the Attempt •
In the Modify Grade window , section 3 – Feedback to User enter the mark.
Step 7 – Attach Feedback • •
In the same section use the Browse… button to attach the annotated .doc file If there is a separate document with the completed Marking key/Rubric use the Add Another File button.
Step 8 – Submit the Mark and Feedback •
Click on the Submit button to save the mark to the Grade Centre and to upload the attached feedback documents.
