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Problems submitting student work on Turnitin.com

The last few days, I have been unable to submit student assignments to turnitin. I can get to the Submit Paper stage, which appears immediately after I upload the files. What I see in the new window is a dropdown menu that asks me to select the student to whom the work belongs. I never used to have to do this. I would never enroll students, I simply upload the papers en masse and have turnitin give me similarity scores.  I was wondering if I had inadvertently tinkered with a setting--unlikely, as I hardly ever go into user or assignment settings--so I created a new assignment, and the problem persists. If I create a student, and then select that student, the blue Submit button gets darker, and I can click on it. But it won't let me assign more than one assignment to the same student. I would have to create dozens of student names, and then manually select them, for each assignment. Turnitin never used to require this. What option can I select, that takes me back to how it used to be?

 

 

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    • Senior Teaching & Learning Innovations Specialist
    • Karen_Smith
    • 1 yr ago
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    Hi Paul Rittman 

    As of late Sept 2023, Turnitin no longer accepts submissions from unenrolled students. Please see the following support center article for further information.

      • Paul_Rittman
      • 1 yr ago
      • Reported - view

      Karen Smith That's very disappointing. I was hoping it was a glitch of some kind. I do thank you for letting me know, so  my college tech support & myself don't go on a wild goose chase looking for a cause.

      I find that students will use turnitin.com to get the similarity score down, by changing a few words here and there, after plagiarizing larger chunks of text, so I'd rather not have them submit the work themselves. I have used turnitin.com to submit the written work myself.

      • Senior Teaching & Learning Innovations Specialist
      • Karen_Smith
      • 1 yr ago
      • Reported - view

      Paul Rittman You're welcome and I'm sorry it's not the answer you want. I will say that changing a few words here and there shouldn't significantly change that number. 

      Maybe some of the resources from our Disrupting Plagiarism page might help from an instructional standpoint. 

      • Purna_Bose
      • 1 yr ago
      • Reported - view

      Paul Rittman 

      We understand that the recent change in the feature of not allowing submissions for non-enrolled students might need you to tweak your workflow; however here are the reasons why this was essential:

      1. Ensure your data security is preserved and no one is able to misuse your account/licenses for any unethical practices which can lead to you or other students facing very adverse consequences going forward

      2. Create a formative learning environment for your students where they can submit their papers, review your feedback on the paper itself (through the grademark tools) and re-submit (only if the assignment settings are enabled for the same), if necessary. Please be assured that it is very difficult for a student to misuse the system through this workflow (the re-submission window will be blocked for 24 hrs after every 3 resubmissions). On the other hand, instructors will have more time to review the papers and provide better qualitative feedback to the students

      3. Ensure your available licenses are properly utilized

Content aside

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