The document provides steps for creating a Turnitin assignment in a Moodle course, including logging into Moodle, turning on editing mode, adding a Turnitin activity under the desired topic, inputting assignment details like name and submission instructions, setting the submission type as file upload, and saving the assignment. Basic Turnitin assignment settings by default include allowing one submission, teachers only accessing similarity reports, and a one week submission window.

1. Creating a Turnitin Assignment in a
Moodle Course - Basic Settings

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After logging in to Moodle, click on the course in which you want to create a Turnitin assignment for students’ submission.
In this case, we click on Demo Course.

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Then click the Turn editing on button at the top right corner to switch to the editing mode.

4. Centre for Learning, Teaching and Technology Turnitin Series: Creating a Turnitin Assignment in a Moodle Course - Basic Settings
After turning on the editing mode, under Topic outline (or Weekly outline), choose a topic (or week)
in which you want to create your Turnitin assignment. In this case, we choose Topic 2.

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Click on Add an activity to open the pull-down menu.

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Select Turnitin Assignment from the menu.

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On the page “Adding a new Turnitin Assignment to topic 2”,
input the name of your Turnitin Assignment into the Turnitin Assignment Name field.

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In this case, we type in “Assignment 1 Learning Strategies”.

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Then input some text into the Summary box.

10. Centre for Learning, Teaching and Technology Turnitin Series: Creating a Turnitin Assignment in a Moodle Course - Basic Settings
You are suggested to give some information about your assignment, such as instructions or assessment criteria, etc.
In this case, we type in “Submit your assignment by 20 November 2011”.

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After that, you need to choose the type of file format that you would like your students to submit their assignments in.

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By default, the Submission Type is set as File Upload, which allows students to attach a file for submission.

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The accepted formats for File Upload include: Microsoft Word (doc/docx), Plain Text (txt),
Rich Text Format (rtf ), Portable Document Format (pdf ) and Hyper Text Makeup Language (html).

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Click the Save and return to course button at the bottom of the page
to complete the steps for creating a Turnitin assignment.

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To complete the creation of a Turnitin assignment, you must wait until the synchronization process is finished.

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You have successfully created a Turnitin assignment, “Assignment 1 Learning Strategies”, in Topic 2.

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Please note that the basic settings of a Turnitin assignment include:
1. allowing students to submit their assignments only ONCE;
2. allowing ONLY teachers to read the similarity reports; and
3. setting the due date of assignment submission to SEVEN days
after the assignment creation date.
All these settings can be changed in Turnitin’s Advanced Options.
You can learn more about this from other self-learning materials of the
Turnitin self-learning series.
Further information of the basic settings of a Turnitin assignment are shown here.
You can learn more about the advanced settings from other modules of the Turnitin self-learning series.

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