Optional settings

To begin customizing the assignment, click Optional settings. The information below will help you to understand the settings available and correctly customize the assignment.

Should you find that any optional settings are unavailable, please contact your Turnitin administrator who may be able to enable features within their Turnitin account.

Submission settings

Submission storage options

• Standard paper repository

  Student papers will be checked against other institutions' student submissions.

• Institution paper repository

  Student papers will only be checked against other student papers within your institution. With this setting enabled, if a student from your institution submits a paper matching a paper of a student from another institution, Turnitin will not identify this match.

• Do not store the submitted papers

  A similarity report will still be generated for paper submissions, but your students' papers will not be stored in the Turnitin standard paper repository or the institution's paper repository for future comparison.

• Student's choice of paper repository

  Students have the freedom to choose where they would like their paper to be saved. It is advised that this setting is only used if you do not intend to use Turnitin to assess originality.

  If you find that this setting is unavailable to you, please contact your administrator to request it to be enabled in their account settings. If your administrator subsequently finds that the setting is also unavailable to them, it is recommended that they speak to their Turnitin account manager.

Allow submissions of any file type

Select the checkbox to allow all file types - even those that are not supported for generating a Similarity Report. This includes files that include media.

Allow late submissions

Select the checkbox to allow late submissions for the assignment; students will be able to submit papers after the due date.

Enable anonymous marking

Select the checkbox to obscure student names within the assignment inbox, Similarity Report and online grading until the assignment's feedback release date. Student names may be revealed for an assignment by clicking on the anonymous marking enabled button to reveal the author's name for the paper.

If a student's name is revealed when anonymous marking is enabled, an audit trail will be created and your Turnitin administrator will receive a notification.

If you find that this setting is unavailable to you, please contact your administrator to activate the anonymous marking feature in their account settings. You cannot enable anonymous marking after the start date of the assignment has passed.

In an effort to maintain anonymity, the student's grade will not appear in the Blackboard grade book until the post date has passed.

Compare against

These search options allow you to select the repositories that students' submissions will be checked against when processing Similarity Reports for papers. The similarity score may decrease if a repository option is deselected.

Similarity Report

Report generation and resubmissions

• Generate reports immediately (resubmissions are not allowed)

  Originality Reports for all submissions will be generated immediately. Students cannot resubmit papers. If, for any reason, a resubmission is required when this setting is selected, you must manually delete a student's submission from the assignment inbox to allow the student to submit again.

• Generate reports immediately (resubmissions are allowed until due date). After 3 resubmissions reports generate after 24 hours.

  This option is typically used when students are self-reviewing and revising their submissions and able to view the Similarity Report. Similarity Reports will be generated immediately for each student's initial submission to this assignment.

  • Students may resubmit as often as they wish until the assignment's due date.
  • Similarity Reports for a second or subsequent submission will generate after 24 hours of submission.
  • As all previous submissions are removed upon resubmission, only the latest submission is available to both you and the student.
  • Similarity Reports will regenerate within an hour of the due date and time to allow student submissions to compare against one another within the assignment.
  • This report regeneration may cause a change in a paper's similarity score. No resubmissions are allowed after the due date and time of the assignment.
• Generate reports on due date (resubmissions are allowed until due date)

  Originality Reports will not be generated for any submission until the due date and time of the assignment is reached. Students may resubmit as many times as needed until the due date and time, but will not receive reports during this period. No resubmissions are allowed after the due date and time of the assignment

Allow students to view Similarity Reports

Select the checkbox to allow your students to view their Similarity Reports for submissions to this assignment. This option gives you more flexibility and control when creating assignments.

Exclude bibliographic materials

Select the checkbox to exclude text appearing in the bibliography, works cited, or references sections of student papers from being checked for matches when generating Originality Reports. You can overwrite this setting in individual Similarity Reports.

Exclude quoted materials

Select the checkbox to exclude quotations from being checked for matches when generating Similarity Reports. You can overwrite this setting in individual Similarity Reports.

Exclude small sources

Select the checkbox to exclude matches that are not of sufficient length (determined by you) from being considered when generating Similarity Reports. A box will appear, where you can exclude matches by word count or by percentage.

Don't Forget to Submit!

Scroll to the bottom of the settings page and click the Submit button to save your settings.