Content Comparison

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Supported filetypes

If you are enabling Turnitin, the student files need to be in a format that is recognised by Turnitin processing.

Make sure the file contains more than 20 words, is less than 100 MB and is in a recognisable text-based file such as MS Word documents (.doc, .docx), MS Powerpoint (.pptX), plain text (.txt), PDF (.pdf), OpenOffice (ODT), Rich Text Format (.rtf).

Adding TurnItIn as the Originality Report provider

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After creating a Blackboard Assignment, in the Advanced Options, scroll to the last option and click Enable TurnItIn:

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Turnitin options

The option set for TurnItIn in this context is reduced and simplified.

Image Removedclick on Enable Turnitin

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This opens up Assignment settings. Switch on Enable Turnitin. The following settings are available under ‘Compare submissions against’. These options allow you to select the repositories that students' submissions will be checked against when processing Similarity Reports.

• Student database

  • This option compares current submissions to previous submissions in classes and assignments in Turnitin across institutions.

• Institutional database

  • This option compares current submissions to the repository of student papers unique to Ulster University

• Website content 

  • This option compares current submissions to a repository of archived and live publicly available internet pages containing billions of pages of existing content and tens of thousands of new pages added daily.

• Periodicals, journals, and publications

  • This option compares current submissions to third party periodical, journal, and publication content including many major professional journals, periodicals, and business publications.

We recommend the following settings for a dropbox with multiple attempts:

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NB Not all the standard Turnitin functionality is available within Blackboard

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