Turnitin

There are many benefits for students who use Turnitin formatively. These include helping to improve academic writing skills, the use of citations and ability to paraphrase. In addition, uploading summative work helps support the University's Academic Conduct Regulation. The faculty of HWB therefore actively promotes the use of Turnitin for both formative and summative work.

Update for 18/19

PLEASE NOTE: The faculty has revised how staff and students are expected to engage with Turnitin (TII) for 18/19. This is as a direct result of staff feedback and university drivers. We will now no longer require staff to bulk upload students' work to TII. Instead, students should be asked to upload both their formative and summative work to a single TII link for each appropriate task. This upload link should be housed away from the summative blackboard submission points to avoid confusion between the official graded submission point (blackboard) and the students formative originality checker (Turnitin).

If a student does not upload their summative work to TII, then academics are expected to upload on behalf of the student. In addition, if a student only uploads work to the TII link and not the Grade Centre submission point, they must not be classed as a non-submission; with the TII work being classed as their summative submission and marked accordingly.

Please visit the HWB example module site to see how we recommend your Turnitin submission points are set up. Please Note: you must be logged into shuspace to access the example site links.

Why are the changes being made?

Click here to access a document which clarifies the details of these changes and explains the rationale behind these changes.

Turnitin point set up - Settings

the following configuration settings should be applied to enable the successful bulk upload of students' final drafts to Turnitin:

• Assignment type: Paper Assignment
• Due Date: End of academic year
• Allow only file types that Turnitin can check for originality

Under 'Optional Settings'

• Allow submissions after the due date? YES
• Generate Originality Reports for student submissions? YES
• Generate Originality Reports for student submissions Immediately (can overwrite reports until due date)
• Allow students to see Originality Reports? YES
• Submit papers to Standard Paper Repository

Issue when accessing Turnitin Originality reports

We have discovered an issue where users attempting to access Turnitin Originality Reports by clicking on the Similarity Score when using Windows 10 and Internet Explorer are being prompted to login to Turnitin.

We have reported the issue to Turnitin. In the meantime, both staff and students are advised to use an alternative browser to access Originality Reports, or if they only have access to Internet Explorer:

• staff can access Originality Reports via the attempt in Grade Centre
• students can access their Originality Report by clicking the View submission button which appears alongside their Similarity Score in the Turnitin Assignment Inbox

We will advise further when we receive an update on this issue.

Please find a range of resources around Turnitin including the aspects discussed above along with how to interpret Turnitin reports.