5. Create a Turnitin assignment

Create a Turnitin assignment

You will first need to set up a Turnitin assignment in your Learn.UQ course for students to submit to in order to mark the submitted assignments online.

Note: You can create a Turnitin assignment where students are not required to submit a file and staff are still able to provide feedback via Turnitin Feedback Studio. For more information, refer to the Create a Turnitin Assignment (no file submission) guide.

For step-by-step instructions, refer to the Create a Turnitin Assignment guide.

Rubrics

There are four types of rubrics that can be attached to a Turnitin assignment:

  • Standard rubric: criteria are weighted using percentages.
  • Custom rubric: scores are allocated to each criterion cell. 
  • Qualitative rubric: no scoring is included in the rubric, although an overall mark can still be entered.
  • Grading form: criteria with a description for each option. Staff can provide a mark and comment on each criterion.

For more information, refer to the Marks / Rubrics / Grading Form Overview, Create a Custom RubricCreate a Qualitative Rubric and Create a Grading Form guides.

Standard rubric

When you set up your Turnitin assignment, you are able to create and attach a rubric. To do so, you will need to determine the point value of the Turnitin assignment (i.e. what the mark returned to Grade Centre will be out of) and the rubric score will then automatically be converted so it is out of the points value.

For step-by-step instructions, refer to the Create a Standard Rubric guide.

Tasks to complete

Create a Turnitin assignment

  1. From the Course Menu, select Assessment
  2. Click on the Literature Review folder. 
  3. Hover over Build Content and select Turnitin from the dropdown list.

Note: You may need to accept the terms and conditions if this is the first time you are using Turnitin.

  1. Enter the Literature Review Turnitin Submission Link in the Assignment title textbox.
  2. Enter Click on the link above to submit your completed assignment in the Instructions textbox.
  3. Enter 40 in the Max Grade textbox. 
  4. Leave today's date as the start date.
  5. Select a due date and time by using the Date Selection Calendar.
  6. Select the end of semester as the feedback release date by using the Date Selection Calendar.

Optional Settings

Submission settings
  1. Click on the Optional settings link.
  2. Select Standard paper repository from the Submit papers to: dropdown list.
  3. Uncheck Allow submission of any file type checkbox.
  4. Check the Allow late submissions checkbox to cater for students with extensions.
  5. Check the Attach a rubric checkbox.
Attach a rubric
  1. Click on the Launch Rubric Manager link
  2. Click on the Export/Import button and select Import from the dropdown list. 
  3. Click on this Cookie rubric.xls link to download it to your computer.
  4. Click on the Select files button.
  5. Browse to and select the Cookie rubric.xls you just downloaded. 
  6. Click on the View button.
  7. Select Standard rubric for Rubric Scoring
  8. Enter 25% in each criterion weighting textbox. 
  9. Enter the following numbers in the corresponding scale value textbox:
    • Yummy: 100
    • Satisfied: 75
    • Not Completely Satisfied: 50
    • Yucko!: 25
  10. Click on the SAVE button.
  11. Click on the CLOSE button.
  12. Select Cookie rubric from the Rubric dropdown list.
  13. Click on the Submit button to create the Turnitin assignment.
Compare against 
  1. Check all checkboxes for Compare against.
Similarity Report
  1. From the Generate Similarity Reports for student submissions dropdown list, select Generate reports immediately (students can resubmit until due date)​.
  2. Check the Allow students to view Similarity Reports checkbox.
  3. Uncheck the Exclude bibliographic materials checkbox.
  4. Uncheck the Exclude quoted materials checkbox.
  5. Uncheck the Exclude small sources​ checkbox.

Tip: These are the recommended similarity report settings and can be adjusted on an individual basis for your assessment tasks.

Additional settings
  1. Check the Save these settings for future use checkbox if you want to save the above settings as your default.
  2. Click on the Submit button.
  3. Close the Tab.

Note: You will need to refresh your Learn.UQ webpage in order to see the newly created Turnitin assignment.