Turnitin plagiarism plugin

README file at John's git hub page suggest that the plugin can be used with assignments, forums etc just like Dan's used to ,unless I'm mistaken.

The new Direct v2 plugin doesn't integrate with the current assignment and forum tools like the Dan Marsden plugin which is a pity. The lecturers and students enjoyed the fact that there was only one assignment tool; it was less confusing. But unfortunately now we'll have to make do with the Direct v2 plugin.

Many thanks for the reply Dan. I actually had no idea the new plugin (Moodle Direct v2) had been released, so it'll be interesting to see what it can do. Just a quick note for anyone in the same boat: the download link within the admin console didn't work for us (it just acts as a redirect); however, it looks like it's available here also: https://github.com/jmcgettrick/MoodleDirectV2

The version in my github master branch should work fine with 2.6 but it's a good time for you to look at the new plugin developed by Turnitin that uses a new backend API and includes a plugin to replace mine - I think the code is available if you login to Turnitin.com as the account admin - it's not available in github or the Moodle plugins db yet afaik. We have some clients just about to start testing/using it next week. Turnitin asked me to review their code and it's looking pretty good now but I haven't done much actual testing using the plugin yet.

Hi Dan, is there going to be a version for 2.6 soon?

Hi Dan,
While the plugin is working is great in every other way, we're experiencing an issue related to the experimental Grademark feature - as detailed here: https://github.com/danmarsden/moodle-plagiarism_turnitin/issues/50
If you have any ideas or advice as to how we can address this I'd really be grateful.
Thanks - Roland

Hi Hitesh,
easiest option is to expire/delete the old courses directly on Turnitin - I'm not aware of any automated process that helps you do this.

Hi Dan,
We are facing an issue with our user quota limit in Turnitin. It has possibly occurred due to a mixture of inactive students and duplication of accounts ( official email address + personal email address for one user ) .
Is there a way we can get rid of these unwanted users through your plugin to free up our quota ( I am also open to developing this feature myself and contributing it back to the plugin if I am shown the right direction ) ?
Other option we had was to expire the entire class which would eventually remove the students as well but that does not look like a perfect solution as we could potentially have active students enrolled that need not be removed from the turnitin system.
Any help will be highly appreciated.
Hittesh

Thanks Marinda - I'd guess that the new process doesn't trigger the events or triggers a different event that we aren't handling - would be good if you could create a new issue on github for it:
https://github.com/danmarsden/moodle-plagiarism_turnitin/issues
I don't think I'll get time to look at this as a volunteer but let me know if you manage to track the specific issue down!

The assignment plug in for Moodle 2.5 has a new feature which allows you to reopen an assignment for single student (s) to resubmit. The original file is then not overwritten but added in addition to the first one. It seems that this second file is not submitted to Turnitin. I'm trying to figure out how it works. Can anyone help me please?

I did a little more digging, and while I didn't see the option to set the course prefix on the settings page, it is in fact populated in the database, likely a hold over from an earlier version of the integration I guess. Still would like to clarify if the email prefix will pose a problem. Thanks!

Thanks Dan, we don't seem to have the "courseprefix" setting, but all our course shortnames should be unique between the systems so I think we are covered there.
With the email, in the 1.9 instance we have the "Student Email prefix" set to "tii_", is this going to cause an issue with the username -> email matching in both systems? Would I need to add the same prefix to the 2.5 code?

HI Peter - it depends which 1.9 turnitin plugin you are using - if you are using an older version that has a setting called "courseprefix" on the turnitin setttings page then it should work fine as all 1.9 courses will use that prefix - the 2.x code doesn't use this setting so the courses created by it will be unique compared to the courses created with the old 1.9 code.
If you are using a version of the 1.9 plugin that was backported from 2.x that doesn't have the courseprefix setting you may need to modify the code a bit for this to work without causing conflicts between your sites.
The other thing is that it expects username-> email to match in both systems. so if you have an account with the same username in both systems with different e-mail addresses in both systems that will cause a conflict with turnitin.
hope that helps/makes sense

We have been using the Turnitin integration for Moodle 1.9 for a number of years but this summer we are moving to Moodle 2.5 and will be installing the Turnitin plagiarism plugin.
We have a few courses using Turnitin that will continue to be run under the 1.9 instance for a period of time after we launch the 2.5 instance. If we ask Turnitin to “enable our Turnitin account to allow the use of the Turnitin Plagiarism plugin for Moodle 2.0” I am wondering if the 1.9 integration will continue to function properly?
Looking at the document at http://docs.moodle.org/25/en/Plagiarism_Prevention_Turnitin_Settings I see we would have our IP Address of Institution set to “255.255.255.255” to allow access from multiple IPs, but I was wondering if anyone could confirm the ability to run the two versions concurrently?

thanks for sharing!