Enabling Turnitin on a New Dropbox

Turnitin can be used via MyCourses as a learning tool for improved writing. The program flags similarity and mechanical errors in written work via Originality and GradeMark reports. If you choose to enable this service for your students, place the Turnitin statement in your course syllabus

Step-by-Step: 

1. Click on Submission Review on the Navbar
2. Click on Dropboxes
3. Click on New Folder
4. Enter a Title of the Dropbox
5. Enter a Score and Due Date (see Creating a Dropbox Tutorial for more information on these settings).
6. Click pm Availability Dates and Conditions tab on the right side of the screen
   
   
   
   
7. Set Start and End Dates for the dropbox. Additional information is on start and end dates below.
8. Scroll to the Submission & Completion settings, click to expand
9. under allowed Allowable file extensions, select Compatible with Turnitin
   
10. Scroll down and click on the Evaluation and Feedback tab
11. Click on the Manage Turnitin button located at the bottom of this area (a pop-up will open)
    
    
    
12.  Check the following options to enable Turnitin for this dropbox:
    
    

    Step 1:  Check the box next to “Enable Similarity Report for this folder”    Step 2:  Check the box next to “Allow learners to see Turnitin similarity scores in their submission folder”     Step 3:  Check the box next to “Enable Online Grading for this folder”

13. Click Save and Close 

Turnitin Dates

When a folder is initially created, instructors are given the ability to put in dates for the Dropbox within MyCourses. When creating a Turnitin assignment MyCourses will help provide dates to Turnitin by setting default dates in the background. MyCourses is not required to send dates, but since Turnitin relies on them, something must be supplied in place of a ‘null’ value. So, the big question is, how does MyCourses handle the date defaults when no dates are supplied?