I teach a graduate class and students do group work. How do I get a TurnItIn report for a group paper?
I used to create a "team name" and run it through TII in the same class. However, the message is preventing me from adding a team to my class: "From September 26th, students must be enrolled in a class before submitting to an assignment on their behalf. Check out our guidance on enrolling students or submitting on behalf of students. If your account has reached its student limit, contact your Turnitin account administrator."
Can I create a team with the students in the class? I want to make sure that my students are upholding academic integrity (AI) and not plagiarizing material. My university does not allow group work to use TII via Canvas so I manually would run each paper through TII with the team names I created. I did provide the teams with the TII reports for full transparency.
Any advice would be extremely helpful. I am committed to AI.
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I've had 2 options in the past:
1: Tell *all* students to upload a copy of the work to Turnitin. The first job is then to check that each group member's work is a 100% match to the others. (This can be useful if the group fall out totally, and you end up with 2 different submissions from them ...)
You can then remove the 100% match, and see any underlying similarity issues. It's a bit fiddly, but you can then copy the written feedback between them etc.
2: Use whatever other submission point you have (e.g. Blackboard). Tell the students that 1 member of the group has to upload their work to Turnitin. That person is then responsible for downloading the Similarity marked up version & uploading it on behalf of the group to your other submission point. That has the advantage that the students have to engage with the similarity report; and if you allow them to re-upload to Turnitin they might actually start to make effective use of it as a teaching aid prior to final submission.
I agree both are a bit fiddly, and I miss the ability that we had with the Moodle/Turnitin link to have Moodle for submission & grading, and Turnitin in that workflow for the similarity checking.
If you are a Blackboard user, they are working with BB to allow a similar workflow, which is scheduled to be available from early 2024 (subject, I assume, to your institution enabling it)
I'm less familiar with other VLEs.