See the UW Turnitin page for a description of Turnitin and how to request that it be available in your LEARN course.
The following LEARN dropbox and dropbox Turnitin settings are available in your LEARN course. The only mandatory setting is the dropbox folder name. A few settings have defaults, shown below with [x]. The rest are optional.
Folder name: _______________ - the name of the dropbox folder
Originality check: [ ] Enable Turnitin for this folder. - when checked you will find Turnitin settings appear at the end of the LEARN settings page
Folder type:
[x] Individual submission folder - each student submits their own work
[ ] Group submission folder
Group Category (pull down menu - explained below)
Category: (pull down menu) - make/pick a dropbox category
Grade Item: - make/pick a gradebook item (i.e. column) to hold a student's dropbox mark - can be linked to the LEARN gradebook later
Out of: - the maximum mark of the dropbox submission
Default Scoring Rubric: - pick a rubric for scoring submissions or ignore this setting
Instructions: - add a message/instructions to show students when they click the dropbox name
ePortfolio Artifacts:
[x] Allow users to add this folder to their ePortfolio
Attached Files: - // an instructor can add a file and a audio file for students when they visit a dropbox - eg an instructions file. This file is viewable outside the dates the dropbox is open/available.//
Dropbox Submission Options:
Files allowed per submission:
[x] Unlimited
[ ] One file per submission
Submissions:
[x] All submissions are kept (default) - a student can submit more than once, each submitted file is viewable in the dropbox
[ ] Only the most recent submission is kept
[ ] Only one submission allowed
Turnitin OriginalityCheck Options:
[x] Generate Originality Reports (pre-selected when using Turnitin)
[ ] Allow submitters to see Originality Reports
GradeMark Available to Students
[ date here ] [ time here ] EST/Toronto, Canada time
Frequency:
[x] Automatic originality checking on all submissions (default)
[ ] Identify individual submissions for originality checking
Check submissions against: (all options are default)
[x] User paper database
[x] Current and archived internet
[x] Periodicals, journals, & publications
Index files for originality checking
[x] Allow other files to be checked against submission (default)
Other Options:
Edit Other Options in a new window
A LEARN dropbox accepts any file format for uploading and downloading from a dropbox. A smaller set of common file types are viewable in the online LEARN/d2l viewer. A still smaller subset can be checked by Turnitin for processing. For example, a LEARN dropbox can accept Mac .pages files but Turnitin cannot process this file type. The following file types are supported by Turnitin: MS Word, MS Powerpoint, WordPerfect, PostScript, Acrobat PDF, HTML, RTF, Plain Text.
Paul Kates
Mathematics Faculty CTE Liaison
pkates@uwaterloo.ca, x37047
Last modification date: Tue Apr 21 23:07:18 2015.
url: http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~pkates/CTE/learn-d2l/turnitin.html