How do I create a Turnitin Assignment in Blackboard?
- Erin Warner
This guide will change on May 11, 2022. We are updating the method used to connect Turnitin with Blackboard. The user interface will change, but the service retains the same features.
Turnitin can provide information about matches to words and passages from billions of webpages, a variety of periodicals, journals, and publications, and also student papers previously submitted to Turnitin. Turnitin includes an online paper grading feature and a peer review feature. To utilize Turnitin in your Blackboard course, follow the steps below.
Instructions
Open the Blackboard course in which you wish to use Turnitin.
Create or open a Content Area where students will access the Turnitin Assignment.
Click on the Assessments button at the top of the Content Area.
Select Turnitin Assignment.
Note: The first time you access Turnitin you may be required to respond to an agreement regarding the use of Turnitin.In the Select Your Assignment Type box select Paper Assignment. Click on Next Step.
Enter a title for the assignment in the Assignment title field. Optional: add points for the assignment.
In the Start date field, click the dropdown arrows and select the date and time you would like the assignment to first be available.
In the Due date field, click the dropdown arrows and select the date and time the assignment is due.
In the Post date field, click the dropdown arrows and select a date and time after the due date.
The post date can determine when students see their originality reports, grades and comments from the Turnitin grading feature.
10. Click on the Optional settings link.
11. Select the options you will use for this assignment.
If you plan to use the PeerMark feature for peer reviews, check No for “Allow submissions after the due date?”
Under “Generate Originality Reports for student submissions” the choice “immediately (can overwrite reports until due date)” will allow those students who complete assignments early to view the report and make revisions until the assignment is due.
Select Yes under “Allow students to see Originality Report” unless there is a reason for the students not to view the matches between their papers and the Turnitin database.
You will be able to select grammar checking settings if you plan to use Turnitin to grade student submissions.
12. You can check the box at the bottom of the Options list to save these options for future assignments. 13. Click on the Submit button.
Creating a Turnitin assignment will automatically create a grading column in the Blackboard Grade Center. Click OK when you see the “Turnitin Assignment successfully added” message.