Brightspace: Enable Turnitin for an Assignment

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Overview

This article explains how to enable Turnitin for a Brightspace assignment. Turnitin can be enabled from the assignment settings in Brightspace and used to generate Similarity Reports.

Instructions

Navigate to Content.
Do one of the following:
- Click Create New > Assignment, and enter the name, grade, date, and instruction information for your assignment.
- In the assignment you want to update, click Options > Edit.
Click to expand the Submissions & Completion accordion.
Under Allowable File Extensions, select Compatible with Turnitin. For more information, refer to What file types are supported in Similarity Report?
Click to expand the Evaluation & Feedback tab.
Click Manage Turnitin.
Click Enable Similarity Report for this folder.
Click More Options for a list of additional optional settings. (The first time you access this, you may be asked to agree to the Turnitin Terms and Conditions).
Do any of the following:
- In the Submission settings area, indicate where and when assignments can be submitted. For more information, refer to Turnitin assignment settings.
- In the Compare against area, indicate the sources against which you want to compare the submissions, including previously-submitted papers, current and archived website content, periodicals, journals, and publications.
- In the Similarity Report area, indicate the timing of generating similarity reports, and the type of submission content you want to exclude (such as bibliography, quoted materials, and small sources).
- In the Exclude assignment template area, you can upload or create a template of text that is automatically excluded from the similarity report.
- In the Additional settings area, you can indicate if you want to save the settings you have chosen in the More Options dialog for future use.
Click Submit.
Click Save.
Review your assignment details, change the visibility if desired, and click Save and Close.