Overview

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Creating a dropbox folder that uses OriginalityCheck

The OriginalityCheck check box appears in the properties tab of the New/Edit Dropbox page.

Important: Once a dropbox folder is created with OriginalityCheck enabled, assignments are created in Turnitin. If you disable OriginalityCheck, the assignment in Turnitin continues to exist unless you go to Turnitin to delete it, or you delete the assignment after its availability dates have passed.

Enable OriginalityCheck

Turnitin has two tools that are integrated with Canvas: Originality Reports and Grademark.

• Originality Reports: Checks student work similarity to other works (other students’ or published) by comparing it against others found on the Web or already checked against Turnitin.

• Grademark: Enables online editorial highlights, custom comments, and QuickMark editing marks      directly on the student papers.

These tools integrate with eLearning(Canvas) where you can “enable” Turnitin for any file upload assignment. When a Turnitin Assignment is created, the course and assignment information is sent to Turnitin automatically.  When a student submits their file, the originality report process begins and the file is sent to Turnitin for checking.

Notes:

• If the assignment being submitted has a low word count, Turnitin will not be able to generate a report.
• Turnitin is available “outside” of eLearning as well, but does require some setup. Please contact  Dr. Claudia Stanny (cstanny@uwf.edu) in CUTLA for information.
• These and other how-to's are available (along with images) on the Turnitin Guides website

Step 1: Create a Turnitin Assignment in Canvas

1. Navigate to the course in which you would like to create an assignment.
2. From the left-hand navigation, click Assignments.
3. If you have not yet created an assignment for this course, select the + button. If there are already-existing assignments in this course, select + Assignment ensuring that the correct assignment group is selected from the accompanying drop-down menu.
4. Enter your basic assignment details, including the assignment Type, the assignment Name, the date the assignment is Due, and the assignment Points (this is the maximum grade available to your students).
5. Select More options to continue.
6. From the more options screen, select External Tool from the Submission Type menu. Then select Find to find the external tool.
7. Select the external tool configured by your Canvas administrator from the available list; your selection will populate the URL field.
8. Select an external tool and select Select to continue.
9. Note: If the external tool is not appearing in the list, please contact your Canvas administrator to ensure they have configured the external tool to the course.
10. In the Assign to menu, select the Assign to box to invoke a drop-down. Select the course you would like to assign the assignment to. This ensures that your assignment will only be available to students in this particular course. 
11.  Amend the assignment's Due and Available from dates (these dates will transfer into the Turnitin assignment). Warning: We recommend that you do not amend the Until date. If a date is inserted in this field, students will not be able to access Turnitin once the date has passed.
12.  Select Save & publish to publish this assignment. Select Save to save the assignment
13. While creating or editing a dropbox folder, select the Enable for this folder check box in the OriginalityCheck section of the Properties tab.
Click the Restrictions tab and update the start date and end dates to your desired date range
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Setting up Originality Reports and other advanced features

Once you enable OriginalityCheck, an options area appears at the bottom of the New/Edit Dropbox page. the Turnitin LTI assignment is launched, click the Settings tab within the Turnitin LTI Tool to adjust the assignment dates and assignment's maximum grade, as well as customize the assignment further. Here you can enable detailed Originality Reports for dropbox submissions, control end user visibility, set the Originality Reports frequency, select which sources to check the submission against, and decide whether the current submission you are running the report against is added to the file index for new submissions to be checked against.

Enable Originality Reports

Select the Generate Originality Reports check box in the Originality Checking Options section of the Properties tab.

Allow submitters to see Originality Reports

1. Click Show Advanced Originality Checking Options to open the advanced options area.
2. Select Allow submitters to see Originality Reports.
3. Click Save.

Change the frequency of your Originality Reports

1. Click Show Advanced Originality Checking Options to open the advanced options area.
2. Choose one of the following options:
   • Automatic originality checking on all submissions
   • Identify individual submissions for originality checking
3. Click Save.

Select which sources to check a submission against

1. Click Show Advanced Originality Checking Options to open the advanced options area.
2. Choose any combination of the following options:
   • Use paper database
   • Current and archived internet
   • Periodicals, journals, and publications
3. Click Save.

Allow submissions to be added to the index (used in future searches)

1. Click Show Advanced Originality Checking Options to open the advanced options area.
2. Select Allow other files to be checked against submission.
3. Click Save.

Manually submitting files for originality checking

If your dropbox folder has Identify individual submissions for originality checking enabled, you will need to manually submit file submissions for originality checking. This is useful if you don’t want to check every file submission for plagiarism, but still want the ability to do so on a case-by-case basis.

Manually submit files for originality checking

1. Ensure that Identify individual submissions for originality checking is enabled in the properties tab on the New/Edit Dropbox page.
2. On the Folder Submissions page, click the Submit file for originality checking icon. A message displays indicating the file has been submitted for review.

Viewing Originality Reports

View Originality Reports from the Folder Submissions page. When a report is available, the status changes from In-Progress to a percentage rating, which indicates the level of matching content.

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• Blue >= 0 and < 20%
• Green >= 20 and < 40%
• Yellow >= 40 and < 60%
• Orange >= 60 and < 80%
• Red >= 80 and <= 100%

View an Originality Report for a submission

Click the colored section beside the percentage rating to view the associated Originality Report.

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Tip For more detailed help with Originality Reports, click the help link in the top-right corner of the report page.

Files compatible with OriginalityCheck

The following file types are compatible with OriginalityCheck:

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