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When you select Turnitin from the Content Market, a new assignment window will appear letting you set up your Turnitin Assignment. You can input the assignment title, instructions and set the due date and feedback date etc. There are also a number of optional settings.

Turnitin Settings

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📘 Instructions

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1. Input the assignment title, you could include the due date.
   

2. Input your instructions, you could specify any important details about the assignment and the fact that Turnitin only accepts a single file upload and you could also highlight the proposed feedback date. (750 characters max).
   

3. Set the Max grade, its usually recommended too mark out of 100.
   

4. The Start Date dictates when the students can see the assignment, it defaults to the time of set up.
   

5. Set the Due Date for the assignment specifying date and time. Bear in mind students can seek support within office hours.
   

6. Set the Feedback Release Date which dictates when Turnitin releases Marks and Feedback to students.
   

7. Under Optional settings

   1. Adjust your submission settings.
      

      

   2. Decide whether to have papers submitted to repository, this is the default common setting. If it's a draft you may wish to choose ‘Do not store.’
      

   3. Decide whether you will allow late submissions, they will be flagged in red with a time and date stamp.
      

   4. You can enable anonymous marking (please speak to CDLE if you plan on using this option).
      

   5. You can also attach a rubric, you may need to build this in Turnitin first (please speak to CDLE for support).
      

   6. 'Compare against' you can choose what you want your students papers to be compared against. All 3 are selected by default, and recommended.
      

   7. Adjust your Similarity Report Settings as required. Similarity report options are:
      
      - Generate reports immediately (students cannot resubmit)
      - Generate reports immediately (students can resubmit until due date)
      - Generate reports on due date (students can resubmit until due date)
      

   8. Decide on any exclusion options.
      

      

   9. Select the box if you would like to save those settings for future use.

   10. Click on Submit to create your Turnitin Dropbox

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