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This brief guide outlines the steps for setting up a Turnitin submission point. The submission point will enable students to submit multiple drafts, supporting the development and improvement of their academic writing.

If a similarity report is an essential part of your formative practice, we recommend using the settings outlined below. Please note that using a Blackboard assignment with Turnitin enabled is not currently recommended for formative submissions requiring a similarity report, due to known issues. More information on issues with Blackboard Ultra Assignments.

If you have any questions during or after the setup, please contact the DEO (digital-education@bristol.ac.uk)

General configuration

1. Navigate to the Blackboard course where the assessment needs to be configured.
2. Navigate to the location you would like to create the assessment. In the instance of a formative submission, this will likely be the Unit Assessment Learning Module of the course.
3. When you have found the location, you want to make your submission point, select the + icon in the Course Content feed – you may need to hover your cursor over the space between two items so that it appears - and select Course Tools from the options.
4. This will open a new menu called Course Tools. Locate and click on Turnitin Assignment (LTI). This will open a new screen that may take a few moments to load.
5. Enter the name of the formative assignment in the Assignment Title box and ensure it indicates that this is a formative tool in the top-left of the screen.
6. Add any instructions to students in the assignment instructions.
7. In Max Grade, the maximum grade available to students submitting work to this submission point can be added. This should always be 100.
8. In Start Date, enter the date and time you want the formative assessment to become available to students. If this is immediately, then enter today’s date and the current time.
9. In Due Date, enter the date and time far into the future.
10. In Feedback Release Date, enter the date and time when you would like feedback and marks to be automatically released to students. If students are not expecting marking and feedback, enter a date and time far in the future
11. Click on Optional Settings to expand more options.
12. Under Submission Settings:
    Use the Submit papers drop-down menu to select between and choose:
    1. Do not store the submitted papers: this will ensure that any submissions made to this submission point are not stored by Turnitin. If you are setting up a formative submission or a submission point for students to submit work in progress or drafts, you must use this setting
    2. Toggle Allow submissions of any file type. Some file types cannot be checked for similarity.
    3. Toggle Allow late submissions.
13. Under Similarity Report:
    1. Toggle Generate Similarity Reports for student submission on if you wish to generate similarity reports for all submitted work.
    2. Use the drop-down options and choose:
       1. Generate reports immediately (students can resubmit until due date). This will generate a similarity report as soon as possible after the student has submitted. Please note that for the fourth and any subsequent submissions, the Similarity Report will be generated after 24 hours.
       2. Select Allow students to view similarity reports.
       3. Select Exclude bibliographic materials.
          The following are optional (Discuss with school)
       4. Exclude quoted materials
       5. Exclude small sources
14. Under Compare Against:
    1. Toggle Student paper repository on to check all submitted work against Turnitin’s repository of submissions from both Bristol and other institutions using Turnitin.
    2. Toggle Current and archived web site content on to check all submitted work against Turnitin’s repository of website content.
    3. Toggle Periodicals, journals and publications on to check all submitted work against Turnitin’s repository of published materials.
15. Under Exclude assignment template, you can click on Upload Template to upload a pre-produced template that will be excluded from the similarity report (limitations on what can be in that template can be viewed by expanding the Template Requirements information). This is useful if students will be asked to include a coversheet or grading rubric as a part of their submitted work, ensuring that all submissions receive a more accurate similarity report.
16. Click Submit.  You will be returned to the Blackboard course’s Course Content. The Turnitin submission point you have produced Will be invisible to students be default. When you are ready for students to access the submission point make sure to change the setting to visible to students. Students will now be able to begin submissions to the submission point from the Start Date you have set.

Submission

The following guidance instructs students on how to submit their papers to Turnitin.

Submit a Turnitin Assignment (video)

1. Find the submission point. This will normally be found in the Unit Assessment Learning Module.
2. Once you find the submission point, click on the assignment name.
3. Click Upload Submission.
4. Edit your submission’s file name, if you need to.
5. Select Choose File to select a file from your computer. You can also use the Cloud Submission tab if you prefer. Before attaching the file, make sure you have saved any changes and closed the document. Then proceed by selecting Choose File to upload a file from your computer. You can also use the Cloud Submission tab if you prefer
6. Click Upload and Review.
7. You will see a preview and be asked to confirm your submission. Check through your upload, using the arrows to view each page as necessary, and click Submit to Turnitin.
8. Click Download Digital Receipt in the green bar or select the Download Digital Receipt icon.