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Creating a TurnitIn Assignment in Blackboard to Prevent Online Student Plagiarism

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TurnitIn is a plagiarism prevention system and it has been integrated as a Blackboard building block. Instructor can create a TurnitIn assignment in Blackboard courses. Grade Mark features will be introduced.

Step One: Creating TurnitIn assignments for students (instructor)

Step Two: Accessing and submitting Turnitin assignments as student (student)

Step Three: Grading student Turnitin assignments (instructor)

Step Four: Using Grademark to Grade Turnitin Assignments

  1. Creating a Turnitin assignment for students
    1. In Blackboard, click Control Panel, click a link under Content. Here we click “Assignments”
      Content areas screen
    2. Choose Turnitin Assignment from the drop-down list on the right hand side and click Go
      Dropdown list with Turnitin Assignment selected
    3. Now the new version of Turnitin is available. The option of switching back to the old version is available.
      Switch back screen
    4. We will try the new version here: fill in the required fields
      New assignment screen
    5. Click “More Options” link to add instructions and then click Submit
      More options screen
    6. Now a Turnitin assignment has been created under Assignments
      Assignments screen showing created Turnitin assignment
  2. Accessing and submitting a Turnitin assignment as student
    1. Students log in to Blackboard and click the Assignments on the Course Menu. Click “view/Complete” link
      View/ complete screen
    2. Students will be able to submit their Turnitin assignments in attachment.
    3. Students will receive a confirmation email after the submission.
  3. Grading student Turnitin assignments
    1. Login to Blackboard courses as instructor -> click Control Panel -> Course Tools -> Turnitin Assignments.
    2. Click the "View" link to access the student submissions for that assignment
      1.  Select multiple or all of the student users and click the download button -> the student submissions will be downloaded and compressed as a zip file on your computer
      2. Click to view the originality report of each student submission
      3. Click the file icon to download individual submissions
      4. Click Grademark icon to grade individual student file onlin ( a pilot program in Spring 2009 at CSUCI )
        Depiction of download button, orginality report, grademark icon, and file icon
  4. Using Grademark to Grade Turnitin Assignments
    1. Adding comments to a student's paper
      1. Level One: Typing comments directly on paper
      2. Level Two: Using Quickmark Library and Quickmark Palette
      3. Level Three: Creating a rubric in Grademark
    2. Level One: Add comments to a student's paper
      grademark screenshot
    3. Level Two: Quickmark Library and Quickmark Palette
      quickmark palette and quickmark library icons
      1. Tools -> Click on Quickmark Library or Quickmark Palette
      2. Quickmark Library
        quickmark library
        The with the lock icon are the default items that can't be edited or deleted. You may create a new Quickmark or Quickmark set
      3. Quickmark Palette
        Quickmark palette
    4. Level Three: Creating a Rubric in Grademark
      1. Tools -> Rubric Library -> to access
      2. Click New button to start your own rubric
        rubric library
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