Leicester School of Biological Sciences

24 April 2008

How do I set up a TurnitinUK assignment in Blackboard ?

Filed under: Blackboard, how_to — Tags: — jobadge @ 9:00 am

This short movie will demonstrate how to set up an assignment in Blackboard and view the results.

17 April 2008

Improvements to Turnitin database - more peer review journals added

Filed under: Blackboard, turnitin — Tags: — jobadge @ 10:52 am

iParadigms have been working with CrossRef to provide a service to academic publishers to help verify the originality of academic content. Originally piloted last year and now fully adopted, the service provided to publishers will be called CrossCheck (based on iThenticate, TII’s not student/class based sister product).

The content which is already part of the iThenticate database will become part of TII in June this year. Currently CrossCheck has the following members that have provided content;

* Association for Computing Machinery
* BMJ Publishing Group Ltd.
* Elsevier
* Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
* IUCr
* The New England Journal of Medicine
* Taylor & Francis and
* Wiley-Blackwell

However as CrossRef have 500+ members it is expected that this list will grow rapidly (from Will Murray, Northumbria Learning)

15 April 2008

Can I re-use a Turnitin assignment from last year?

Filed under: how_to, turnitin — Tags: , , , — jobadge @ 8:39 pm

Turnitin assignments can be re-used from year to year. All assignments are recycled at the end of the previous academic year and the student attempts and submissions removed.

Click on ‘modify’ next to the assignment and change the dates for the new deadline for the current year. Don’t forget to update the deadline in the text box as well. You will need to refresh the list of students by using ‘roster sync’ to list them all in the Turnitin Assignment inbox. This means you will be able to see which students have not submitted thier work.

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