Step 3 - Configuring the Plagiarism Plugin in Moodle

Previously, the Plagiarism Plugin was bundled along with Moodle Direct V2. Now, the plagiarism plugin is installed and configured separately.

  1. Log into Moodle as the Moodle administrator.
  2. After you've installed the Plagiarism Plugin, navigate to Turnitin plagiarism plugin in the Site Administration | Plugins | Plagiarism menu.

  3. You'll see a long list of settings you can change. Some of these are compulsory, and others you can either change or use the default we recommend.
  4. Compulsory settings
    1. Plugin visibility - found under the 'Turnitin Plagiarism Plugin Configuration' heading, this option lets you choose where Turnitin similarity reports will be available. You can choose to show them for all assignments, for forums, for quizzes, for workshops, or not at all.

    2.  Turnitin Account ID - This is your Turnitin Account ID. You'll find it in your initial account creation emails from Turnitin or you can also log in to Turnitin.com (or TurnitinUK.com) and see it on the Administrator Homepage.
    3. Turnitin Shared Key - In Turnitin this is called the Shared Key. You create this when you configure your account in Turnitin.
    4. Turnitin API URL - Use the drop-down to select either https://api.turnitin.com or https://api.turnitinuk.com depending on your location.
    1. Debugging and log - The default state for this setting is 'No'. We'd recommend keeping it set to this unless you are in contact with our support team trying to diagnose a problem.
    2. Use GradeMark - Enables our grading tools for use with the assignment.
    3. Enable PeerMark Assignments - Allows instructors to create PeerMark assignment
    4. Enable Grammar - Enables Grammar checking for the assignment. Students will receive Grammar feedback instantly after submission.
    5. Use Anonymous Marking - Masks student names from instructors until the post-date of the assignment to allow them to grade an assignment impartially.
    6. Translated Matching - We will translate any non-Enlglish files into English for comparison against our full database. Learn more

    7. Paper Repository Assignments - Allows you to select which options are available to instructors to choose where papers are submitted.

      • Enable instructor standard repository

        Instructors will be able to set the assignment option to either store student papers within the standard paper repository or to not store the papers in any repository.

      • Enable instructor expanded repository options

        Instructors will be able to set their assignment options to store student papers in the standard paper repository, in the institutional paper repository, no repository, or to allow students to choose between the standard paper repository and the institutional paper repository.

      • Submit all papers to the standard repository

        All student papers submitted to the account will be stored in the standard paper repository.
      • Do no submit any papers into a repository
        Student papers will be compared against other papers that currently existing database but are unable to be used in future matches.
      • Submit all papers to the institutional repository
        If purchased for your institution, this will add papers to the private database reserved for your institution. They can only be matched against by other papers submitted to the same repository.
  6. (Optional) Enter a disclaimer/agreement in the text box. Students will have to check a box agreeing to this statement before submitting a paper. However, if you leave the box completely blank, then there won't be any agreement confirmation required during submission.

  7. (Optional) The Student Data Privacy Setting will ensure that student's data is not transmitted to Turnitin via the API if this is a requirement at you institution. If the option is enabled, student email addresses will be transformed into a pseudo equivalent for Turnitin API calls. This option cannot be changed if any Moodle user data has already been synched with Turnitin. The default is No.

    This process is irreversible and cannot be changed once students have started to enroll and submit to the class.

  8. Click on the Save Changes button at the bottom of the screen to save all the entered information.