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.
- From your course’s main page, click the
button in the upper-right. - With editing turned on, click
in the section where you want to add the Turnitin assignment. - From the menu that appears, click the
next to 
and click the 
button at the bottom of the menu. - 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. - Specify a
. In most cases, you’ll want to set this to 
so that students can upload Word documents, PDFs, etc. - 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. - 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). - 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!