Detailed instructions for using Turnitin can be found in this training manual.
Please email the helpdesk at moodle@wit.ie or call 051-834114 if you would like have any specific questions about Turnitin or attend one of our drop-in or specialised training sessions.
If you have submitted your assignment to Turnitin within the stipulated timeframe set down by your lecturer but have not received a similarity report within 24 hours you should contact the Moodle office. This error can occur when students have changed their e-mail details between submissions thus preventing the Turnitin site from providing a similarity report for your work in Moodle.
Similarity reports/scores can take up to 24 hours to be returned from the Turnitin website. Once your score is returned you can resubmit your assignment if necessary having made changes to adjust your similarity score.
Students may encounter problems when submitting an assignment to Turnitin via Moodle. The most common reason for this is the length of the filename for the file they are submitting.
If your lecturer has left comments on your assignment submission in Turnitin you can review them after the release date.
The simple answer is ‘Yes, you can’. SETU libraries have set up a Turnitin referencing check within Moodle where you can submit your assignment for a similarity score before submitting it to your lecturer. This will not affect your similarity score for the subsequent submission to your lecturer.
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When draft submissions are allowed prior to the due date, the comparison of submissions within the same Turnitin Assignment link will not take place until after the assignment due date passes.
Turnitin is a third party assignment type that we have in use in our instance of Moodle. Turnitin will accept text-based submissions in most common formats, such as Word or PDF, and provides the student with a similarity report by comparing submitted student files with an extensive range of public web, subscription-based sources and past student work.
Turnitin is a third party assignment type that we have in use in our instance of Moodle. Turnitin will accept text-based submissions in most common formats, such as Word or PDF, and provides the student with a similarity report by comparing submitted student files with an extensive range of public web, subscription-based sources and past student work.