Enable Turnitin After Submission Have Been Made

MyFIRE works with Turnitin to allow assignments to be searched for potential plagiarism and compiles feedback and student progress into one area for the student and instructor to review. This tutorial demonstrates how to enable Turnitin on an assignment within MyFIRE after student submissions have already been made. 




  1. Navigate to the desired course in MyFIRE.
  2. Select the instructor tools tab at the top of the page.

 

3.             Then select course admin in the drop-down menu.

 

4.             When the page refreshes, locate and select assignments. 

 

5.             If the assignment has already been created, select the drop-down arrow to the right of the desired assignment.  


a.             Then select edit assignment from the available options in the menu.

 

6.             Once the assignment is in editing mode, select submission & completion on the right side of the page. 

 

7.             The submission & completion section will expand. Locate and select the allowable file extensions drop-down menu. 

 

a.             When the drop-down menu appears, select compatible with Turnitin. The compatible file types that Turnitin accepts are htm, html, mht, mhtml, doc, docx, hwp, odt, rtf, pdf, wpd, txt, ps, pptx, ppt, ppsx, pps, xls, xlsx.

 

8.             Then select evaluation & feedback on the right side of the page. 

 

9.             The evaluation & feedback section will expand. Select manage turnitin under the Turnitin Integration title.  

 

10.          A pop-up window will appear. Check enable similarity report for this folder. The page will take a moment to refresh.          

 

11.          Then under the Display title, select allow learners to see Turnitin similarity scores in their submission folder. If this option is not selected, students will not be able to see their similarity score. 

 

12.          Next, select determine if all student submissions should be checked for similarity or if only certain individual submissions should be checked for similarity by selecting the corresponding radio button. Automatic similarity checking for all submissions will be selected by default.   

 

13.           Select the enable online grading for this folder checkbox. 

 

a.             Determine the transfer option by selecting either automatically sync as draft in brightspace or manually sync grades as draft in brightspace. ID&T recommends automatic sync. 

Note: If automatically sync as draft in Brightspace is selected, where there are multiple submissions, the score on the most recently submitted assignment will be transferred. Instructors have the option of manually updating to another score.

 

14.           Next, select more options in Turnitin at the bottom of the pop-up window.

 

15.           Another pop-up window will appear to show additional Turnitin Submission Settings. Review the settings and select the desired Turnitin options. ID&T recommends the following settings: 

a.             Submission Settings: 

 

                                                   i.Set the Submit paper repository drop-down menu is set to standard paper Repository.

                                                  ii.Check enable grammar checking using ETS e-rater technology. Additional options will appear if selected. 

                                                 iii.If desiring to add a rubric to the assignment, add the rubric to the assignment under the evaluation & feedback section on the assignment creation page. By adding the rubric within the evaluation settings, this will allow students to view the rubric prior to submitting to the assignment. ID&T does not recommend adding a rubric in the Turnitin settings. 

 

b.    Compare Against: Ensure that at least one option is selected for the similarity report to generate. If no option is selected, the similarity report will not generate. 

 

i.Check student paper repository

ii.Check current and archived website content

iii.Check periodicals, journals, and publications

c.     Similarity Report: 

i.Determine when the similarity reports will be generated by selecting the generate similarity reports drop-down menu. Options include: 

 

·       Generate reports immediately (students cannot resubmit)

·       Generate reports immediately (students can resubmit until the due date): After 3 resubmissions, reports generate after 24 hours. ID&T recommends this option. 

·       Gernate reports on the due date (students can resubmit until due date)

                                         ii.         If desiring to exclude a specific type of material from the similarity report, select the type that you would like to exclude. Options include bibliographic, quoted, and small sources material.

 

d.    Exclude assignment template: If the assignment submissions will include a fillable form or format, ID&T recommends excluding the assignment template by uploading or creating a fillable form that the students will fill out and submit to the assignment. When a template is excluded, Turnitin will only check what students add to the form. Excluding templates works best for non-academic forms where students will not have the same answer and could be personalized to their experience. Templates must meet the following requirements: 

i.Uploaded files must be less than 100 MB

ii.Templates must have at least 1% words of text

iii.Accepted files types for upload are Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, WordPerfect, PostScript, PDF, HTML, RTF, OpenOffice (ODT), Hangul (HWP), and plain text. 

Note: Once a submission has been made to the assignment, templates can no longer be added or edited. 

                                       iv.         To upload a fillable form, select upload template. 

 

1.    Then select choose file to locate and attach the desired file. 

 

Note: Ensure the name of the file is visible after the upload. 

 

                                         v.         As an alternative method to adding a template, instructors have the option to create a custom fillable form by selecting create custom template. 

Note: ID&T recommends for accuracy purposes to utilize the upload template option instead. 

 

1.    Once ‘Create Custom Template’ is selected, a textbox will appear allowing instructors to type the form. The textbox utilizes plain text; therefore instructors will not be able to format the custom template.  

 

2.             Once done creating the form, select Save Template.

 

16.          Once finished selecting the desired Turnitin settings, select submit at the bottom of the pop-up window. 

 

17.          Then select save at the bottom of the Turnitin Integration pop-up window. 

 

18.          When the pop-up window closes, select save and close at the bottom of the Assignment page. 

 

19.          To enable Turnitin on submissions that were made before Turnitin was enabled, select the title of the assignment.

 

20.          Navigate to the student who already submitted to the assignment, and select the file box with the green arrow to run Turnitin on the assignment.

 

21.          The assignment should then say in progress while Turnitin runs the report.

 

22.          Finally, the score will appear.

Note: The page may need to be refreshed in order for the score to appear