LTI- Turnitin

LTI- Turnitin

Using Turnitin

While there is no separate Turnitin assignment type in Bruin Learn, there is a way to enable the generation of Turnitin originality reports through Bruin Learn assignments.

When creating the assignment, you can enable Turnitin by changing the Plagiarism Review option from “None” (the default) to “Turnitin-BruinLearn” in the dropdown menu. (Note: This option will only appear if you select “Text Entry” and/or “File Uploads” as an online submission type in the “Submission Types” section.)

Choosing this reveals several customizable options for Turnitin:

Multi-Part Turnitin Assignments

While it isn’t possible to create a multi-part Turnitin assignment in Bruin Learn, you can use the following steps to create something similar (say, for a writing assignment with both a rough draft and final essay):

  1. First, create as many separate Assignments as there are parts to the assignment to be submitted.

  2. Then, in the Turnitin settings, set the “store submissions in” option to “do not store the submitted papers” for every part except the final draft. This ensures that the final draft will not be flagged against previous drafts of the same document in the similarity report.

  3. If you are looking to assign a single grade for an assignment based on the average of the scores that students get on different parts of the assignment, you can do so by creating an assignment group:

    1. Navigate to the Assignments tab on the left side toolbar and click on the gray “+Group” button on the top right.

    2. Give the group a name and assign it a percentage of the total grade for the course.

    3. From here, either add a new assignment to the group by clicking the + icon on the top right corner of the group (next to the percentage of the total grade):

      or drag an existing assignment into the group using the 8-dot icon to the left of the assignment name:

    4. To assign weighting to different parts of the same assignment, assign proportional scores to those different parts. (Example: Imagine an assignment in which students submit a first and final draft, where you want the first draft to be worth 40% and the final to be worth 60% of the assignment grade. You could assign 40 points to the first draft assignment and 60 to the final, and the assignment group will aggregate the group score using those proportions.)