Dear all
I wonder if I might pick your collective brains for a moment?
At our institution, we use Moodle with Turnitin Direct v2 - specifically, we use the plagiarism plugin which enables deep integration with the standard Moodle assignment activity (we have deliberately chosen not to use the stand-alone Turnitin activity type).
Our Moodle courses generally remain in place each year with most staff preferring to build on their courses from one year to the next - this has caused us one or two issues in the past (e.g. Turnitin continues to count graduated and left students in our user allocation).
We've managed to get past this issue a couple of times by sending Turnitin a list of graduated students and they have 'orphaned' them in their system - essentially removing them from the count. As a solution, it's not ideal but it's workable at least.
Recently however, we ran into another potential problem and I'd be interested to hear whether anyone else is aware of it and (if so) how you plan to resolve it:
We've just discovered that there is a fixed maximum 'life-span' for individual Turnitin classes of 5 years (this applies whatever VLE you use). As I understand it, once the 5 years is up, the class expires permanently and cannot be re-used.
Since we've had Turnitin integrated with our VLE for almost 5 years now, this is of some concern to us. If I understand Turnitin correctly, it will mean that over the next few months the integration with our Moodle instance will cease to work with some of our older courses.
I spoke with Turnitin support earlier but they weren't sure what to suggest (though they have agreed to look into it for us). Their first suggestion (that we backup and restore thousands of Moodle courses) isn't really workable - not least because doing so would break a whole host of other things for us in the process.
Assuming we aren't the only ones to run Moodle courses over an extended period of time, how are others dealing with this?
Many thanks
Lisa
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Lisa McIver
Moodle Operations Manager
University of Bath
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