How to Create a Turnitin Assignment

Creating a Turnitin Assignment is as easy as creating a regular Assignment in Blackboard. Here are the steps:


1. In your Control Panel, click the content area in which you wish to create the Turnitin Assignment. This is usually the "Assignments" area:




2. Select "Turnitin Assignment" from the dropdown on the right, and click the "Go" button:



3. Set the assignment title, point value, and start/due dates options for your assignment. The "post date" is irrelevant but should be set for a date later than the due date. Click the Submit button at the top to post the assignment:





Students

Students can access your assignment by going to the content area in which you posted the assignment and clicking the "View /Complete" link:




Instructors

You can collect the students submitted work and view their papers and plagiarism reports by going to the "Turnitin Assignments" link in your Control Panel. You can also access the papers via the entries in Control Panel > Gradebook.

• For complete step-by-step visual instructions on how to post a Turnitin Assignment, please watch this video: http://www.turnitin.com/static/videos/bb_vid.html
  
• How to mark up/comment/grade a Turnitin paper using the "Grademark" feature (apple icon): http://turnitin.com/resources/multimedia/training/turnitin/Integration/Blackboard_Grademark/Blackboard%20Grademark.htm
  
  

A Note About File Types:

Turnitin currently accepts the following file types for submission: MS Word (.doc, .docx), WordPerfect (.wpd), PostScript (.eps), Portable Document Format (.pdf), HTML (.htm, .html), Rich Text (.rtf) and Plain Text (.txt).

All files submitted to Turnitin must contain actual text (not just a picture of text, for example). Papers which have been scanned must be sent through Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software before they can be submitted to Turnitin.

The file size may not exceed 20 MB. Files of larger size may be reduced in size by removal of non-text content or the instructor may be contacted to request multiple assignments to submit the document in sections.

.zip files are not included in the list of file types that are accepted by Turnitin. Please uncompress .zip files to one of the above listed formats before uploading to Turnitin.