Turn It In Assignment
Watch a closed-captioned movie that shows you how to create a Turnitin assignment in a BeachBoard course [opens in a new window]
Turnitin is a plagiarism prevention service available in BeachBoard. Students submit their papers electronically, and Turnitin compares the text of those papers to the text in billions of other documents on the Internet, in papers submitted by other students around the world, and in commercial databases of journal articles and periodicals. Whenever similarities between the text in a student's paper and the text in an existing document are found, Turnitin highlights those similarities, providing an annotated document showing both the student's paper and the original source.
NOTE: Grademark has been enabled. PeerMark (Peer Review) has not.
Add a New Turnitin assignment
- Login to BeachBoard
- Under My Courses, click the name of the course in which you would like to add a Turnitin assignment.
- Click the course's Control Panel
link.
- Under Content Areas, click the Assignments
link.
- In the Select: pull-down list in the upper right corner of the screen, choose Turnitin Assignment.
- Click the Go
button.
- Select an assignment type (radio button) and click on "Next"
- Paper Assignments are the basic, "fresh" assignment.
- Revision assignments are created to revise a paper assignment, basically a reassignment of the same paper.
- Key in the assignment's title in the Assignment Title box.
- ESSENTIAL: Only include letters and numbers in the name of your assignment and do not use the pound sign (#). If your assignment name contains special characters or the pound sign [e.g., Assignment #2], you will receive an error message when you attempt to download your students' work.
- Choose a start date and time -- the date and time your students can begin submitting their papers.
- Choose a due date and time -- the submission deadline for your assignment. Unless you choose, in more options, to allow submissions after the due date, your students will not be able to submit their papers once the due date and time has passed.
- Choose a post date and time -- the post date relates to the availability of GradeMark papers only and has no bearing on when grades are posted to the Gradebook.
- Click the + sign to the left of the words "more options" and update any settings you would like to change (see below). This is optional.
- Enter the assignment's instructions in the Special Instructions box. (This is optional.)
- Click the Submit
button.
Special thanks to SDSU [
http://its.sdsu.edu/turnitin/
] and Turnitin [
http://www.turnitin.com/static/training.html
] for their support.
