• For most assignments, you will not need to change most of the default values in this section.
• You may need to change Number of Parts for multipart assignments. Note: Multipart Turnitin assignments default to an equal percentage weight attached to each part of the assignment. If you have a multipart assignment and require different weightings on each part of the assignment or even different due dates you can change these under step 5 of this guidance.
  

• Change Allow submission of any file type? to Yes if students are required to submit a variety of file types. Please note that not all file types will generate a Similarity Report

• If you want students to view their Similarity Report so that they can use Turnitin as a formative assessment tool to support the development of their academic writing you will need to change the Display Originality Reports to Students to Yes.
• Anonymous Marking: Default is No. Please refer to the Turnitin Anonymous Quickstart Guide for information on how to set up an Anonymous Turnitin assignment.
• If you find the defaults don't meet your requirements for Turnitin assignments, change the defaults for your first Turnitin assignment and then check the box alongside Set these values as assignment defaults. The system will remember your defaults and apply them each time you set up a Turnitin assignment.

This is the most important set of settings for a Turnitin assignment and you will need to change some of the defaults.

• Allow Submissions after the Due Date: We recommend changing this setting to Yes. Submissions attempted after the due date are often not received by Turnitin and cannot be marked using Feedback Studio, making them very difficult to manage.

• Report Generation Speed: Default is Generate reports immediately (students can resubmit until the due date, After 3 submission, reports generate after 24 hours). Similarity Reports for the initial submission by each student to this assignment will be generated immediately. Students may resubmit as often as the student wishes until the assignment due date. Similarity Reports for the third or subsequent submission will require 24-hours before it begins processing. Only the latest submission is available to the lecturer or student. Previous versions are removed. Student submissions will compare against their peers submissions within the assignment on the due date, which may result in a change in the similarity index on the due date. 

   Report Generation Speed Options

  The other options available under the Report Generation Speed are:

  Generate reports on due date (students can resubmit until due date): Similarity Reports will not be generated for any submission until the due date and time of the assignment. Students may resubmit as many times as needed until the due date and time without receiving reports. Resubmissions may not be made after the due date and time of the assignment.

  Generate reports immediately (students cannot resubmit) - Similarity Reports for all submissions will be generated immediately. Students cannot resubmit papers. Submissions must be deleted by the lecturer/course officer to enable resubmission. This option is not recommended as students are unable to resubmit and submissions are not checked against each other.

  
  

• Store Student Papers: The default option is Standard Repository which is suitable for most submissions. For formative submissions use option No Repository so the student's formative submission is not matched to a later summative submission. For a confidential project of dissertation work you might also need to change the option to No Repository to ensure that the student's assignment remains confidential. 
•  The remainder of the options enable you to exclude certain database searches from a Similarity Report and we do not recommend that any of these options are changed.   
• You can opt to exclude the following from a Similarity Report, again we do not recommend excluding any of these options:
   
  • Bibliography: Excludes text underneath the title references, bibliography.
    
  • Quoted Material: Excludes text enclosed between double quotation marks or content that is indented.
  • Small Matches: Matches that are not of sufficient length can be excluded. The number of words or paper percentage to be excluded is determined by yourself and entered into the text box.

If you are not using a Rubric for marking your Turnitin assignment you can skip this step.

This setting allows you to attach a rubric in order to provide feedback to students that highlights strengths and areas for development against the assignment criteria. If you have previously created a rubric this will be available in the rubric drop-down menu.

If you would like to create a rubric click on Launch Rubric Manager and follow the rubric guidance. We recommend using an excel spreadsheet to create a new rubric as Turnitin has an hour time-out limit.

You can use the restrict access setting to restrict access to Turnitin assignment by using a number of different restrictions. If you want the assignment to be available to students during a certain date range you can use the Date restrict access settings to manage this.

Review the Restrict access guidance for more information about the possibilities with this setting.