Turnitin plagiarism plugin

Thanks John. I see that you have split the repository into three on github. I would like to post new issues to the plagiarism plugin. Should I do this in the new repository (presently no issues) or the original (12 issues)?

Hi Mathieu,
Thanks for the input.
We will be modifying the plugin fairly soon to account for submitting on behalf of a student, this isn't currently supported as the plugin sends submissions automatically to Turnitin with data provided to the get_links() function. There isn't enough data in there currently to do this so we'll be removing automatic submission and doing all submission through the cron which makes the plugin more in line with Moodle's workflow.
We've fixed issue 2 in the latest release.
We'll look into the other issues for you as well.
Thanks
John

I have found a couple of problems with this plugin, that seem like they should be pretty easy to fix.
1. When an admin or registrar needs to edit a student assignment, clicking edit submission > and uploading new assignment > save, submits the assignment to Turnitin under the admin's or registrar's name NOT the student's name. The result is that the student is thereafter unable to see the originality report or access the marked assignment in Grademark. The present work around is for the admin to use Moodle's "login as" feature to upload the document. This is a real schlep.
NB. Be careful about submitting a new document to a student account as the admin (ie without using 'login as') when the student has not accepted the EULA. This will submit the assignment under your admin user, but associate it with the student concerned. The assignment will then loop and resubmit over and over again and may give error M14: 18 when viewing grademark. Make sure you are certain the EULA has already been accepted!
2. The grades do not sync to the gradebook under specific circumstances where a workflow is involved. Presently, this means you need to manually enter the marks into the gradebook for such assignments.
3. Some assignments created in office365 with .docx extensions will not render an originality report. I suppose this one is more a Turnitin problem and less a problem with the plugin.
4. Students who have multiple submissions in are not permitted to submit an assignment more than 5 times, even if there is no submission limit in the configuration of the assignment. Turnitin PP will only accept the assignment provided the submission number is less than 5 in mdl_plagiarism_turnitin_files.
5. Some users submitting to an assignment may receive the turnitin error something like the following "Assignment not submitted Turnitin since the due date is past and you have already submitted..." This will appear even though the due date setting in the assignment has not been set or is not yet past, but the plagiarism_post_date on the cm in mdl_plagiarism_turnitin_config has a date in the past. This one is a real pain to sort out and involves manual edits to the database (not for the faint of heart!). Note that there is no way to configure the post date from the plagiarism plugin and manual edits in the DB are reverted as soon as the assignment syncs to Tii.

Hi Amir, yes this plugin will support 2.9. We haven't fully verified this yet though.

Hi there,
Do you have an intention to support Moodle 2.9?

Hi Liz, are there any errors in your API logs? There may be a problem in creating the assignment itself in Turnitin.

Hi, I want to be able to use Turnitin within a normal moodle assignment, as shown in the screenshot above (on this page https://moodle.org/plugins/view/plagiarism_turnitin).
We have the Turnitin Plagiarism plugin and also Turnitintwo installed and everything works correctly via the Turnitin Assigment. I have enabled the Turnitin plagiarism plugin to be enabled for "assign" and also "forum" and the settings appear in the set-up for both of these, however when work is uploaded to a moodle assignment or forum no Turnitin report link is visible. We are running Moodle 2.7 and the legacy assignment type is disabled. Is there anything else I can do to make this work? Thanks, Liz

He should be able to access GradeMark if he has the Moodle permission to grade the assignment. Which version of the plugin are you using?
You could also add him as an instructor on the class through Turnitin, this would allow access to GradeMark through the course in Moodle.

Hi John, thanks for your response. They are grading in GradeMark. I've done some more troubleshooting on this end and I've realized that in fact, the problem is not exactly as originally described to me. What's going on is that when he tries to use GradeMark under his own account, he is unable to grade the papers. So I think actually we're bumping up against the TA question that I believe has been brought up by others; is it possible to add him as a TA in the Turnitin.com account by having him listed as a teacher in our Moodle Course? Or is this a functionality that still needs to be added? What I'd love would be to have him able to access the Comment Bank that I've spent a lot of time creating in GradeMark, so that we are really grading with consistent comments for the students; but then ideally he would be able to access that comment bank through the link created through Moodle. I am fairly certain this is possible if we were using Turnitin without the Moodle link -- but that's not something I want to give up, as this plugin is so great and I love the pedagogical benefits of one-stop shopping for my students. Is there anything you can do? Thank you!

Hi Katrina, are they grading via GradeMark or in Moodle? If they are grading in Moodle then the grades will not be passed to Turnitin.

Hello all, We love the turnitin.com plugin for Moodle, so thanks for the work! I have a question -- I have a second teacher in my Moodle class, and when he corrects assignments via Moodle in turnitin.com, the grades he enters don't appear. His comments do show up. Does anyone else have this issue? Turnitin.com directs me to add him as a TA directly in the turnitin website, but of course as the course is created via Moodle, I can't edit it there. Thanks for your help, Katrina

Hi guys, please take a look at the issue https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-49249 , it is reported against Moodle core, what can you recommend to change in plagiarism API to pass a correct link back to the context?

Hi Stacey,
We're looking at separating the plugins out fairly soon. With our next release we will be splitting the turnitin block out in to it's own repository, if that goes without any problems we will then move on to splitting out the other two repositories.
Thanks
John

Hi,
What are the chances of this plugin being separated out into logical git repositories or branches? Having it all in the same repository and only a master branch makes it a little tricky to track in different projects.
Thanks,
Stacey

Hi Colin/Dan,
Thanks Dan, the problem was because the zip file was created on a Mac so it contained a __MACOSX folder. I've re-uploaded the plugin so this should now work.
Mary Evans had brought this to our attention via the Direct plugin.
John