Support for staff using technology in teaching, learning and assessment.
When setting up a Turnitin Assignment, it is important to ascertain what type of assessment has been set for the module for you to then be able to select the correct set-up. Please read Before you set-up a Turnitin Assignment for guidance.
In addition, although Turnitin can accept a variety of file formats, submissions must meet a set of requirements for Turnitin to be able to return a Similarity report.
This means that the link between what the students do and what the tutor can view for assessment is extended for all students.
Select the Management tab and choose assignments:
Select the ‘work cannot be submitted after‘ to change the date of submission. You will also need to change the ‘work already submitted can be modified until‘ date to match the deadline date.
If you have set individual extensions before changing the overall submission date these individual extensions will be affected by the change of overall submission date.
It is advisable to contact your Digital Academic Developer to ensure you are aware of the implications of any changes you make to deadlines on ATLAS.
It is possible to provide individual students with extensions for after the ‘standard’ deadline. This re-opens the link between the student’s work and the version viewed in ATLAS up to the revised deadline.
Providing individual extensions in PebblePad (links to PebblePad’s own website).
It is possible to use extensions for re-assessment but there are other options as well. Please talk to your Digital Academic Developer for further advice.
Turnitin will highlight these small ‘fragmented’ words when it has found similarity to a larger portion of text elsewhere within the student’s work from the same source, and the total of these result in an overall % which is deemed ‘significant’ enough by Turnitin to show.
Please be aware that Turnitin is best at matching larger, more verbatim sections of unoriginal text, it is not a paraphrasing detector. It would not indicate where a student may have paraphrased a series of small sections from multiple sources, then woven these together and not attributed them.
If you believe you may have seen a similar, although not verbatim, sentence / paragraph / phrase in a source which has not been attributed by the student, it may be that there is not an overall match to that source with the student’s work for Turnitin to highlight it. Using an Internet Search engine, such as Google, may help as these search on keywords.
Before adding any feedback or marks to a submission please ensure you check that the Grade Centre column for this assignment is hidden from students and does not auto-aggregate to the Total column which could potentially cause early visibility of grades to students.
Once the students’ submissions have been downloaded, the feedback and grades will also need downloading and archiving.
The Mark History window will open displaying the Assignment name(s), user names, the grades or if an attempt was cleared and the feedback in the comments column:
Note: This will not show any extra files the tutor may have uploaded as an attachment providing additional feedback to a student. It is the responsibility of the tutor to download and save any such documents they may have attached to a student’s feedback.
From the Mark History window select Download
From the Options window that displays, for ease select:
The following window will appear:
Select Download and then select OK to return to the Mark History window.
Once the file is downloaded it can be opened as an Excel spreadsheet. Check that all entries have downloaded correctly and then save this to the required location.
From within the Blackboard course site ensure EDIT mode is on:
The Download Assignment window will open:
All of the files submitted for that assignment will be packaged in a .zip file and the following message will appear:
Save the file to the required location.
Open the downloaded .zip file to ensure the contents contain all the submitted scripts.
If a Blackboard Assignment is deleted you will no longer be able to see either students’ work submitted, any e-feedback you’ve written or grades entered. It is therefore important to undertake the manual archiving of student work to comply with the University Document Retention schedule.
You may also want to download work or other information because:
Please ensure that you
Contact your Digital Academic Developer for further guidance on how to share work with external examiners.
There are a number of ways students can access their marks and feedback, but the easiest way is for them to return to where they submitted their work.
Navigating to the content area that contains the Blackboard Assignment and clicking on the Assignment name will open the Review Submission History window:
The Mark and any Feedback, including the rubric will be displayed to the student in the right side panel.
Once all the Assignments have been marked and you are ready to release all the marks and feedback to your learners, return to the Grade Centre of that Blackboard module.
Select the drop-down arrow next to the Assignment Title and select Hide from Students (on/off) to make this available to students.
The 
will be removed and will indicate that the feedback and marks can now be viewed by students.