Turnitin plagiarism plugin

Hi John - Colin is trying to use the install option provided here in the plugins db - it's not working because the plagiarism_turnitin zip here seems to contain an extra "turnitin" directory at the top level instead of the plugin files in the root of the directory.

Hi Colin,
Are you trying to install the whole zip package downloaded from github via Moodle? This won't work due to the way all the aspects of the plugin are packaged together.
John

Trying to install via Moodle.org and get this error Oops! It did it again
Moodle deployment utility had a trouble with your request. See the docs page and the debugging information for more details.
exception 'zip_exception' with message 'Invalid structure of the zip package' in mdeploy.php:1422
Stack trace:
#0 mdeploy.php(805): worker->unzip_plugin('/var/www/moodle...', '/var/www/html/m...', '/var/www/html/m...', '/var/www/moodle...')
#1 mdeploy.php(1535): worker->execute()
#2 {main}

Since updating to 2014012410 running on Moodle 2.7.2 we are seeing errors in cron:
Trying to get property of non-object in /moodle/plagiarism/turnitin/lib.php on line 1425
This was not happening in a previous version we were advised to take from from GitHub by TurnItIn.

Using 2.8.1 and Turnitin Plagiarism Plugin (v. 2014012407 2.3+) enabled for forums. Since the 2.8.1 upgrade, it's caused very slow loads in forums of over 30 seconds average. Figured you would want to know the debugging reports (and hope you can offer any advice to get this wonderful plugin working again):
When I click "Add forum," debugging shows:
/pluginlib.php has been deprecated, the classes that used to exist are now autoloaded. Please removed any calls to include or require this file.
line 33 of /lib/pluginlib.php: call to debugging()
line 30 of /plagiarism/turnitin/lib.php: call to require_once()
line 196 of /lib/plagiarismlib.php: call to require_once()
line 112 of /lib/plagiarismlib.php: call to plagiarism_load_available_plugins()
line 173 of /mod/forum/mod_form.php: call to plagiarism_get_form_elements_module()
line 191 of /lib/formslib.php: call to mod_forum_mod_form->definition()
line 86 of /course/moodleform_mod.php: call to moodleform->moodleform()
line 252 of /course/modedit.php: call to moodleform_mod->moodleform_mod()
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When I click "Create forum," I get:
lib/pluginlib.php has been deprecated, the classes that used to exist are now autoloaded. Please removed any calls to include or require this file.
line 33 of /lib/pluginlib.php: call to debugging()
line 30 of /plagiarism/turnitin/lib.php: call to require_once()
line 196 of /lib/plagiarismlib.php: call to require_once()
line 112 of /lib/plagiarismlib.php: call to plagiarism_load_available_plugins()
line 173 of /mod/forum/mod_form.php: call to plagiarism_get_form_elements_module()
line 191 of /lib/formslib.php: call to mod_forum_mod_form->definition()
line 86 of /course/moodleform_mod.php: call to moodleform->moodleform()
line 252 of /course/modedit.php: call to moodleform_mod->moodleform_mod()
Error output, so disabling automatic redirect.
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When I click, "Add discussion," I get:
lib/pluginlib.php has been deprecated, the classes that used to exist are now autoloaded. Please removed any calls to include or require this file.
line 33 of /lib/pluginlib.php: call to debugging()
line 30 of /plagiarism/turnitin/lib.php: call to require_once()
line 196 of /lib/plagiarismlib.php: call to require_once()
line 153 of /lib/plagiarismlib.php: call to plagiarism_load_available_plugins()
line 1009 of /mod/forum/post.php: call to plagiarism_print_disclosure()
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When I go to Site administration > Plugins > Plagiarism > Turnitin plagiarism plugin, I get:
lib/pluginlib.php has been deprecated, the classes that used to exist are now autoloaded. Please removed any calls to include or require this file.
line 33 of /lib/pluginlib.php: call to debugging()
line 30 of /plagiarism/turnitin/lib.php: call to require_once()
line 21 of /plagiarism/turnitin/settings.php: call to require_once()

The documentation link for this plugin still points to the documentation for the Dan Marsden version?

Hi Ryan, if it's a single Moodle environment then you wouldn't be able to have separate configurations. You could configure roles and permissions - as Dan says - if you wanted it only available to certain users but they would still all have to use the same configuration when the other schools came online.

I presume you have a single Moodle install for the district?
If you are using the plagiarism_turnitin plugin then you can set the site level defaults to have turnitin off for all assignments and then you can give the permission to "enable" turnitin to specific roles or users - but you would likely need to discuss this directly with turnitin as there may also be licensing issues.

Question, we have a particular school interested in using TurnItIn.com but it's not a District-wide solution at this point. Does the plugin allow separate configurations for different schools? In the case that this one wants starts with it and other schools decide to come online later. Thanks!

Hi there,
a blank screen usually reflects that a PHP fatal error has occurred - please increase your debugging level and turn display errors on and then re-load the page. Then do a google search against the error that appears.

Hi All, I have just installed Moodle 2.6.3 on a test server and also installed the turnitin plugin; however when i want to configure the plugin i get a blank screen. I have followed all the steps on the site : http://docs.moodle.org/27/en/Plagiarism_Prevention_Turnitin_Settings, but i can not open the screen Settings > Site administration > Plugins > Plagiarism Prevention > Turnitin i am getting a blank screen ~/settings.php
Thank you.

Hi Dan,
We love your plugin (Thank you ) and have had a long time trouble free but recently we've had problems with courses that were created not roster_syncing. Courses and assignments were created but I cannot get existing students to appear in Turnitin. Any ideas if this is a Turnitin issue or a Moodle one?

Thanks. I fixed the problem. The students' email addresses contained a space at the end and consisted of uppercase letters. Took me days to figure it out. I changed them all, made the changes and now the students are syncing and reports are generated. New integration code that doesn't clean messy detail. Very expensive lesson. I hope chocolates will pacify some very upset lecturers ....

not sure then sorry - I haven't seen that issue before - to investigate further I'd need access to your server and not something I could do as a volunteer - if you're really stuck and are able to fund the time for someone to help further drop me an e-mail.

We are using the Dan Marsden plugin. I've done what you suggested, but it still gives the following error when I run the cron for a large number of students.
could not create user/login to turnitin code:118 encrypt value in URL is bad or missing