Our primary recommendation to tutors is to have students submit drafts in the way you have suggested, particularly for students in the first year of UK higher education, as TurnItIn can be a powerful tool for teaching about proper referencing.
With the Blackboard integration, you can just set up separate regular paper assignments for each draft and one for the final. As long as the submitted assignments are linked to the same student record (i.e. not submitted anonymously by the tutor), TurnItIn will ignore any submission in the database from that student in the report (only the student's submitted work from that particular site that is). Revision assignments are no longer needed as best I can tell (though a year and a half ago they would've been necessary).
So it is actually simple to do what you want.
Brian
Brian Irwin
Lecturer in Curriculum Innovation
Academic Innovation
Learning & Teaching Institute
Sheffield Hallam University
0114 225 3874
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From: Plagiarism [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Curson Nigel Mr (VIS)
Sent: 02 March 2007 12:24
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Subject: Turnitin advice
Hi.
Apologies for sending a helpdesk-type query to this list - and please feel free to reply offlist if that seems most appropriate.
UEA is piloting Turnitin this year, using the Blackboard Building Block rather than directly. We are testing different models and approaches.
Although based in staff development, I teach an undergraduate unit in one of our schools. I want to test Turnitin in this unit as a self-diagnostic tool for students. I want them to be able to run drafts assignments through Turnitin once or twice - in order to see and use the originality reports for themselves - and then at a later date to submit the final assignment. So as well as being able to self-submit, I want Turnitin not to compare each successive draft with its predecessor, and not to compare the final version with any of the drafts.
I'd appreciate advice therefore on how to set things up to be able to achieve the above. I assume the drafts need to be submitted a revision assignments - however I don't find the documentation and interface desperately transparent and want to make it as straightforward for the students as possible.
All guidance gratefully received.
Nigel
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