Blackboard Ultra (Faculty) - Turnitin Assignments: Enable Turnitin on an Assignment

Turnitin is a plagiarism prevention and detection tool integrated into Blackboard Ultra. When Turnitin is enabled in the assignment settings of a Blackboard Ultra course, a Similarity Report is generated. The Turnitin Feedback Studio is not available with this option. To generate a Similarity Report and utilize the full capabilities of Turnitin's feedback and grading tools (Turnitin Feedback Studio), the assignment must be created using the integrated tool in Blackboard Ultra's Content Market. 

Enabling Turnitin on an Assignment

1. Navigate to the course in Blackboard Ultra.
2. Locate the assignment on the Course Content page or create a new assignment. 
3. Click the gear icon to open the Assignment Settings panel.
4. Scroll down to locate "Originality Report" and click "Enable Turnitin".
   
   
   
   
5. The Originality Report panel now appears. Click the toggle button next to "Enable Turnitin".
6. More Turnitin settings appear in the same panel. Configure the settings to meet the needs of the assignment:
   • Submission Storage: use the drop-down menu to store the student submission in the standard paper repository (default setting) or no to store them at all
   • Compare submission against: select at least one source for comparison
   • Similarity Report: select which types of texts should be excluded from the Similarity Report 
7. Click Save at the bottom of the Originality Report panel.
8. Click "X" at the top of the Originality Report panel to return to the Assignment Settings panel.
   
   
   
   
9. Click Save at the bottom of the Assignment Settings panel.

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