What is Turnitin assignment?
Turnitin assignment is an Academic Honesty Tool for Paper assignment in Moodle.
What is Turnitin assignment for?
Turnitin assignment helps instructors evaluate the originality of students’ work by comparing student submissions to online sources and the Turnitin database.
Turnitin assignment also provides a suite of feedback tools, including the ability to grade using a rubric, add notes or comments directly to student submissions, and create peer review activities for your students
Grades awarded in Turnitin assignment are automatically transferred to the Moodle Gradebook.
Inform Your Students About Turnitin assignment
We recommend that instructors include text in their syllabus informing students that they are using Turnitin and discuss it during their first class meeting.
More generally, we also recommend that you discuss the policies covering academic honesty included in the University's Academic Honesty Policy and Procedures and the Faculty Senate's Resources for Preventing Plagiarism.
The following are sample paragraphs you may wish to include in syllabus:
If you plan to use the Turnitin originality detection services for ALL assignments in your course...
As a condition of continued enrollment in this course, you agree to submit all assignments to the Turnitin for textual comparison or originality review for the detection of possible plagiarism. All submitted assignments will be included in the UMass Amherst dedicated database of assignments at Turnitin and will be used solely for the purpose of checking for possible plagiarism during the grading process and during this term and in the future. Students who do not submit their papers electronically to the service will be required to submit copies of the cover page and first cited page of each source listed in the bibliography with the final paper in order to receive a grade on the assignment.
If you plan to use the Turnitin originality detection services for selected, suspect assignments...
Students should be aware that suspect assignments (e.g., those without drafts, without works cited pages, or with large departures in style) may be submitted to Turnitin by the instructor for the purpose of checking for possible plagiarism. Submitted assignments will be included in the UMass Amherst dedicated database of assignments at Turnitin and will be used solely for the purpose of checking for possible plagiarism during the grading process during this term and in the future. Students must provide an electronic copy of their assignment to the instructor for submission to the service when plagiarism is suspected, in order to receive a grade on the assignment and to avoid possible sanctions..