Create a Turnitin Assignment

Updated on 07 Oct 2025
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Within the course, enable editing by clicking the "Edit mode" toggle switch, as shown below:
Under a specific topic, click the "Add an activity or resource" button.
Select "Turnitin Assignment 2" as the activity type.
Note:
- The "Assignment" type is different from the "Turnitin Assignment 2" type. Choosing the "Assignment" type will not include Turnitin features such as similarity percentage. To change the activity type, you must delete the existing activity and add a new one.
Set the General Settings.
Important:
- Faculty members are requested to kindly instruct students to ensure that all submissions are uploaded in PDF format only.
Note:
- Enabling the “Set these values as assignment defaults” option will apply your current configuration as the default settings for all new Moodle Direct Turnitin assignments you create. These defaults will override the system administrator’s settings and will apply only to your account.
In the Grade section, keep the type of grade as Point and input the maximum grade you would like to assign for this assignment.
In the "Assignment Part 1" section, configure the settings as follows:
In the Originality Report Options section, complete the following steps:
1. Set the "Allow Submissions after the Due Date" to Yes, if you want to allow students to submit after the deadline.
2. Under the "Report Generation Speed":
  - First option: The student has only one chance to submit, as multiple submissions are not allowed.
  - Second option: The student has three chances to resubmit, and the similarity report will be generated 24 hours after the third submission.
  - Third option: This setting is not recommended and should be ignored, because it allows unlimited submissions up to the due date.
    Note:
    Instructors are not allowed to delete any submitted Turnitin paper, as it will remain in the Turnitin database. If a student resubmits the assignment, it will be compared to the original submission, potentially resulting in a higher similarity percentage.
3. Under "Store Student Papers," both "Check Against stored student papers" and "Check against internet" should remain set to their default options.
4. If you want the student's assignment compared against online journals and publications, keep "Check against journals, periodicals, and publications" set to Yes.
5. If you would like to exclude the bibliography while comparing the student’s assignment against other online material then change the Exclude Bibliography to Yes.
6. To exclude quoted content from similarity checking, set "Exclude Quoted Material" to Yes.
7. Excluding Small Matches means that you can allow small parts from the same resource in the student’s assignment to be excluded while comparing it to other online materials. It is recommended by Turnitin to allow 1-2% only.
  Note:
  Make sure to change the settings from Number to Percent.
  
  Example:
  If you enter 20 percent to be excluded, and the student copies 19% from the same source into their assignment, Turnitin will ignore it and not flag it. Therefore, it is better to enter 1–2%. Note that this is the allowed percentage per source, not the total allowed percentage across all sources.
If you would like to restrict access to the assignment, please refer to the these articles.
Once all steps are completed, click the "Save and return to course" button.

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