With various assessment deadlines approaching soon, you may wish to refamiliarise yourself with our new guides and resources for Turnitin, and your submission points within Blackboard Ultra.
Our new Ultra manual includes settings for Turnitin Assignments. You can use this to check through the recommended settings, to ensure that everything is as it should be ahead of your students’ submissions.
We have new guidance for Grading Turnitin assignments. In Ultra, there is no longer a need to manually hide the grade centre column, ahead of marking commencing. However, if this is within an older module, which uses our original Blackboard VLE, this action will still need to be taken.
Once marking has been completed, grades are automatically posted on the feedback release date, for Turnitin assignments. We have further details about releasing grades in Blackboard Ultra within our manual, and Blackboard also have additional advice for instructors: Assign Grades (blackboard.com)
You are most welcome to share our new Ultra Resources and FAQs with your students. Please see our Turnitin video below, which includes a demonstration of the submission process for students.
Here are some quick reference tips – if your students have any queries about their submissions:
- Students can resubmit work to the submission point as many times as they like, until the due date if ‘Generate reports immediately (students can resubmit until due date): After 3 resubmissions reports generate after 24 hours’ is selected:
- After the 3rd upload, there will be a delay of 24 hours until the next similarity report is received.
- We recommend using ‘allow late submissions’ as a setting. Once the due date has passed, students who have already submitted ahead of this date and time, will be unable to resubmit again. However, if they have not made a submission until after the due date, a single attempt will be allowed, and this will appear as a late submission, highlighted in red.
- Resubmissions, resits and mitigating circumstances, will require a new Turnitin submission point to be created in the original module.
- Grades and feedback are automatically released to students, on the ‘Feedback Release Date’ and ‘Time’, for Turnitin assignments. Grades will then be visible within the Blackboard Ultra grade centre – where you will be able to see whether grades have been released, as these will have the label ‘Posted’ next to them.
- You may wish to share relevant student support sources, in the run up to submissions, and to clarify with your students the title & location of the submission point.
