Turnitin

1. Create an Assignment. If you want to learn more about how to do so and the available settings, see the Create Assignments page.
2. Within the Assignment, go to the Evaluation & Feedback tab.
3. Click on Manage Turnitin.

4. Click on Enable Similarity Report for this folder. 

5. Click on More Options and choose your desired settings for the Assignment. See the Optional Settings for Turnitin and Make Similarity Reports automatically visible to students sections below for more information.
6. Click Save when you are done. 

You can find the optional settings by editing your Assignment, going to the Manage Turnitin within the Evaluation & Feedback tab, and clicking on More Options in Turnitin.

Go through the Optional Settings and select the settings you wish to include. To view information about each setting, hover over the question mark (?) next to it. 

In the Submission settings you can choose in which Turnitin repository the paper is stored.

• Standard paper repository: This contains all papers submitted to the Turnitin database, including from other universities. This paper will be used as reference material for plagiarism in the Turnitin database. However, if a match is found outside of the TU Delft the content of the paper will always be hidden.
• Institution paper repository: This means all papers submitted to Turnitin can be used as reference material within the TU Delft. No submissions outside of the TU Delft will be able to find this paper as a source or match. 
• Do not store the submitted papers: This means the paper will not be stored in any database, so it will never be used as reference material after it has been uploaded and checked.

The Allow submission of any file type and Allow late submission options are greyed out, as these are controlled by Brightspace and by how you have set up your Brightspace Assignment.

Here you can choose when a report should be generated. If you have selected generate reports immediately, any document submitted by students will be processed immediately. 

If your Brightspace Assignment allows resubmission, students will be able to resubmit documents. These will be processed immediately, even if the setting says ‘students cannot resubmit’. 

If you choose to generate reports immediately but select the option where students can resubmit until the due date, students will be able to upload new documents until the deadline. These documents will be scanned by Turnitin right away and the report will be generated immediately. However, after three resubmissions, there will be a twenty-four hour delay before a new report is generated. This is to prevent students from checking and resubmitting to manipulate their similarity scores.

You can also choose to generate reports on the due date. With this option, students can resubmit their work (also based on the Brightspace Assignment settings), and only their latest submission will be scanned on the due date of the assignment. 

You can toggle Enable Translated Matching, which detects any English source translated by students into a different language (like Dutch). This only works for English sources: for instance, if a Dutch source is translated into English, the Dutch source will not be found.

You can also exclude specific type of text from the Similarity Score. Turnitin will still scan these parts of the document, but any matches found will be excluded from the report. You can include them again by checking off the filter within the Similarity report. The different types of materials that can be excluded are:

• Bibliographic materials - For submissions written in English, a machine-learning algorithm detects bibliographic reference materials when Exclude Bibliography filter is active. For submissions written in languages other than English, common beginning and terminating phrases are detected to exclude a section dedicated to references.

• Quoted materials - When the Exclude Quotes filter is active, the report will ignore any matches that are in between quotation marks like “…” or »...«. For the full list of quotation marks that Turnitin recognises please see this page.
• Small sources – you can declare a minimum size (word count or percentage) that a segment of text needs to be before showing up in the Similarity report. If the match found is smaller, it will not be shown.

You can choose specific repositories or content types to compare submissions against:

• Student paper repository: All student work submitted to Turnitin, including from other universities.
• Institution student paper repository: All student work submitted to TU Delft's Brigthspace.
• Current and archived web site content: Any content available online.
• Periodicals, journals and publications: Official publications, such as those from scientific journals. 

You can upload or create a template to be automatically excluded from the Similarity Report. For exclusion, students' submissions will need to match the template exactly, including word order.

You can save these settings for future use. Turnitin will then apply these settings to every subsequent assignment until you choose to save new settings.