Turnitin for Brightspace assignments checks for originality and plagiarism, but cannot be used as a grading tool. Therefore, it is possible to enable it even after a Brightspace assignment has been already created, and work has been submitted, and graded.

To enable Turnitin® Originality check for an existing Brightspace assignment that does not have submissions from students:

1. Navigate to your Brightspace assignment
2. Access the assignment settings                                                       
   • see the manual How to use the Assignments tool, section Assignment Quick Menu
3. Edit the assignment settings by enabling the Turnitin® option
   • see the manual Enabling Turnitin® for a new Brightspace Assignment  and follow the steps 4 through 7 of that manual
4. Save the changes by clicking the button Save & Close on the assignment settings page

You will be redirected back to the Brightspace Assignments homepage, where, in the list of assignments, you will find the recently edited assignment with a binocular icon next to its name indicating that Turnitin has been enabled.

When you open the assignment, in the Brightspace assignment Submissions homepage you will not yet see any change or indication that it is a Turnitin enabled assignment, until a submission by a student has been made.

To enable Turnitin® Originality check for an existing Brightspace assignment that already has submissions from students:

1. Navigate to your Brightspace assignment
2. Access the assignment settings 
   • see the manual How to use the Assignments tool, section Assignment Quick Menu
3. Edit the assignment settings by enabling the Turnitin® option
   • see the manual Enabling Turnitin® for a new Brightspace Assignment  and follow the steps 4 through 7 of that manual
4. Save the changes by clicking the button Save & Close on the assignment settings page

You will be redirected back to the Brightspace Assignments homepage, where, in the list of assignments, you will find the recently edited assignment with a binocular icon next to its name indicating that Turnitin has been enabled.

When you open the assignment on the Brightspace assignment Submissions homepage you will see a new column Turnitin® Similarity in the submission overview and an icon next to the student's submission indicating that Turnitin® has been enabled for your existing Brightspace assignment.

5. Click on the Turnitin icon next to the student's submission

The icon will change into a text In Progress indicating that the student's submission file has been submitted to Turnitin® for originality check.

Repeat step 5 for each submission in the list.

6. Reload the page by clicking the button Reload in the browser (or refresh using keyboard shortcuts: for Windows in Chrome or Edge hold Ctrl + F5, for Mac hold Cmd+Shift+R)

The similarity scores of each submission will now appear in the column Turnitin® Similarity on the Brightspace assignment Submissions homepage.

Since Turnitin for Brightspace assignments is set up to check the work for originality and plagiarism, and not for grading, it can be enabled even after a submission has been graded. It can be enabled when the grade is on draft or published (see example in the image below).

To edit the Brightspace assignment with submissions from students and graded:

1. Navigate to your Brightspace assignment
2. Access the assignment settings 
   • see the manual How to use the Assignments tool, section Assignment Quick Menu
3. Edit the assignment settings by enabling the Turnitin® option
   • see the manual Enabling Turnitin® for a new Brightspace Assignment  and follow the steps 4 through 7 of that manual
4. Save the changes by clicking the button Save & Close on the assignment settings page

You will be redirected back to the Brightspace Assignments homepage, where, in the list of assignments, you will find the recently edited assignment with a binocular icon next to its name indicating Turnitin has been enabled.

Once you enable Turnitin for the assignment you can follow steps 5 and 6 of this manual, section Existing Brightspace assignment with submissions.

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