Adding the “Turnitin” assignment feature to your course will help you verify the integrity of your students’ work. This
will also allow students to gauge their own work and discourage the copy/paste temptation.
Adding a Turnitin Assignment to a Bb 9.1 Course
Click on the Class Folders button, if you have folders already created, click on the folder that you’d like to use
Click the Create Assessment button and then select Turnitin Assignment
o Select the Type of Assignment you are creating and click Next Step
o Enter the Title, point value, start date, due date and post date
o Click the More Options buttons
 Adjust options if applicable
o Click Submit
This will add the assignment to your Blackboard course so students can view and upload their assignment and it
will generate an originality report for you and them.
Viewing Student Submitted Turnitin Assignments
Click to expand the Course Tools menu in the Control Panel
Click Turnitin Assignments
Click on the assignment that you wish to view
This screen will show you all submitted work for this assignment.
o To view a paper, click the paper's title.
o To view an Originality Report, click the paper's Originality Report icon in the report column.
Turnitin Tips
Clarification: This tool does not verify APA formatting, only plagiarism.
A high percentage, even with correct citations, still means that the student is not the author of the
majority of their paper!
You determine what the target % range is for your course (10-15% is an acceptable range for an academic
report).
Allow students to view their own originality report, this will take away the anxiety of Turnitin being a
“caught ya” tool and more of a “learn what you did wrong and how you can improve” tool.