Instead of giving a direct numerical grade on a Turnitin assignment, you can also create a rubric and assign points to different criteria to provide a reusable scorecard.

1. From your course page, click on the Turnitin assignment () to go to its summary page (if you are not there already).
2. Click on the  tab to see all of the student submissions.
3. You will see a listing of all of the students in the course and their submissions (if they’ve submitted anything yet). Click the  icon in the  column for the submission you want to grade.
4. The student’s paper will appear in a new window. Click the  icon in the lower-right.
5. In the  menu on the right, click the  icon.
6. In the pop-up that appears, click the  button in the upper left and select .
7. Enter the Rubric name at the top of the rubric manager.
8. Click any  to rename it, click the percentage next to it to set its weight, and click the space below it to provide a description. If you need more Criteria, you can click the  icon to the right of the  header to add extra rows.
9. Similarly, you can click any  to rename it and click the number next to it to specify a value. If you need more Criteria, you can click the  icon to the right of the  header to add extra columns.
10. Click in any cell to specify a description for that level of the scale for that criterion.
11. Click the  button in the lower right to save the rubric, then click the  button in the upper-right to attach the rubric to the assignment. Click the  button in the lower right when done.
12. In the  menu on the right, click any of the scale levels to set them for that criteria. When you have them selected, click  to grade the paper.
13. Close the window when done, or click the  or  buttons in the upper-right to quickly go to other submissions.

In addition to giving you a report on the originality of student papers, Turnitin also features a powerful grading and commenting tool. As well as allowing you to give numerical feedback on a student submission, you can also directly enter your comments into specific parts of the paper.

1. From your course page, click on the Turnitin assignment () to go to its summary page (if you are not there already).
2. Click on the  tab to see all of the student submissions.
3. You will see a listing of all of the students in the course and their submissions (if they’ve submitted anything yet). Click the  icon in the  column for the submission you want to grade.
4. The student’s paper will appear in a new window. You can click or highlight anywhere in this paper to add a comment. Click anywhere on the paper or on text you’ve highlighted so that the  box appears, enter your comment, and click .
5. You can use QuickMarks to insert canned comments quickly. There are some stock Turnitin marks you can use (, , etc.) by clicking and dragging them from the panel on the right. If you want to create your own, click on the paper to create a new comment and click . Enter a  and choose a  and click  so that you can use it again in the future.
6. Click the grade field in the far upper right (next to the similarity percentage) and replace the  with the grade you want to give the paper. Press Enter to save.
7. Close the window when done, or click the  or  buttons in the upper-right to quickly go to other submissions.

One of Turnitin’s most useful functionalities is its ability to gauge a student paper’s originality. Turnitin will compare student submissions to website contents, scholarly articles, and papers submitted by other students to check for plagiarism. The Originality report will tell you how much of a student’s paper is similar to other content.

1. From your course page, click on the Turnitin assignment () to go to its summary page (if you are not there already).
2. Click on the  tab to see all of the student submissions.
3. You will see a listing of all of the students in the course and their submissions (if they’ve submitted anything yet). The  column contains similarity scores (e.g. ). The higher the percentage, the more similar the paper is to other documents. Click the percentage to see the report.
   Note: Originality reports take time to generate. If the  for a submission reads , it still needs time to process.
4. The student’s paper will appear in a new window. You can see the sources that the paper is most similar (and percentage scores of how much of the paper resembles the source) to on the right in the  pane. Click any source to be taken to the part of the paper that most resembles that source.
5. Click the highlighted text in the paper or the  icon that appears next to a source to see a pop-up containing the similar text as it appears in the source material.
6. Close the window when done.

Just as with any other Moodle assignment, you can specify start and due dates for Turnitin assignments. Those dates, however, are not set when you first create the Turnitin assignment; they are set on a separate page. There are also Turnitin-specific behaviors you should be aware of.

1. From your course page, click on the Turnitin assignment () to go to its summary page (if you are not there already).
2. In the table that appears on this screen, click the  icon on the far right.
3. You’ll be taken to a page where you can specify the , , and . Be advised that like other Moodle activities, Turnitin’s dates function on a 24-hour clock.
   The  specifies when the assignment will start taking student submissions. You must set the Start Date to at least 24 hours before you intend to start receiving submissions.
   The  specifies when the assignment will stop taking student submissions (unless you allowed for late submissions, in which case this will determine when student submissions are marked late).
   The  specifies when grades on the assignment will be made visible to students.
4. When your dates are set, click the  button to save your changes.

Turnitin is an online software Butler has purchased for use with Moodle. Turnitin allows you to check submitted student papers for plagiarism and provides you with access to advanced grading/commenting tools for giving your students feedback. To use Turnitin, you must first create a Turnitin assignment that your students will submit their papers to.

1. From your course’s main page, click the  button in the upper-right.
2. With editing turned on, click  in the section where you want to add the Turnitin assignment.
3. From the menu that appears, click the  next to  and click the  button at the bottom of the menu.
4. Enter a  and a . The assignment name is how the assignment will be displayed on the course page, in the gradebook, etc. The summary is what the students will see before they submit a paper, and is useful for providing prompts or instructions.
5. Specify a . In most cases, you’ll want to set this to  so that students can upload Word documents, PDFs, etc.
6. Use  to specify whether students can submit papers after the due date as well as specify what sorts of sources student papers are checked against for originality reports.
7. Click the  section to expand it. Set the  drop-down to the number of points you want this assignment to be worth and specify which  it will go in (if any).
8. Click . Don’t be concerned that you haven’t set a due date yet; this occurs on a subsequent page (see the next step in the sidebar). Do not use  to set due dates! You may accidentally lock your students out of the assignment!