Turnitin's Moodle Direct v2

Hi John,
Many thanks for your prompt reply and we will be looking forward to the new release.
Best wishes,
Lina

Hi Lina,
Thanks for the information, this is something we will investigate and hope to include as soon as we can.
Regards
John

Hi John. Many thanks for providing this plugin to the community; its functionality is really appreciated by our staff and students, and we’re really grateful to you for your efforts to maintain and update it.
On that note, please could I quickly query whether you have any plans to update the plugin to be fully compatible with Moodle v3.1, and its new Global Search feature in particular? To clarify: while we’ve tested the Turnitin’s Moodle Direct v2 integration plugin under v3.1 and all of the core functionality seems to work fine, we’ve found that instances of the activity are not searchable via v3.1’s Global Search feature. Please see the following screenshot for details, which lists all of the available areas that can searched under v3.1 (note that these settings are available via: Site Administration -> Plugins -> Search -> Manage Global Search):
http://imgur.com/lWWQByE
Note also that the above screenshot was taken on a v3.1 system where the Turnitin’s Moodle Direct v2 integration plugin is installed and available. However, as you can see, the Turnitin’s Moodle Direct v2 integration activity is not listed as being available to be searched. Obviously, this is likely to be a significant problem/cause of confusion for users who might want to search for specific instances of the Turnitin’s Moodle Direct v2 integration activity across Moodle.
I’m not a developer, but my understanding is that mod plugins can be made searchable relatively easily via the addition of a new search class within the plugin’s codebase (located at ../classes/search/activity.php). Please see the following for further details:
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=334938
https://docs.moodle.org/31/en/Global_search
https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Search_API
We really hope this search capability can be added to Turnitin’s Moodle Direct v2 integration as I’m sure it would be a huge benefit to our users (as well as those of other v3.1 systems) and, again, many thanks for all your efforts to develop this plugin and share it with the community.
Best wishes,
Lina

Hi Ivan,
You have to install another plugin: https://moodle.org/plugins/plagiarism_turnitin to use Turnitin within a Moodle Assignment. Before you can use it though, you'll have to enable Plagiarism which is under Advanced Settings when logged in as an admin.
John

Hi all
from Turnitin website
https://guides.turnitin.com/03_Integrations/Turnitin_Partner_Integrations/Moodle/Moodle_Direct_V2
it stated that "Supports Moodle’s built-in plagiarism detection thereby allowing access to Turnitin functionality from within Moodle assignments" for moodle direct v2 module. Do you know how to enable built-in plagiarism from within Moodle assignments?
Yours
Ivan

Hi John
We have a Moodle site with Turnitin Direct 2. This summer we are moving the Moodle site to a new install, on a new server, with a new Moodle site name. We will move all the existing courses which are connected to Turnitin. Ideally we would like to move the link with Turnitin across as well, so that the old courses that are on the new Moodle site will still be linked to their Turnitin assignments. Do you have any advice on how we might achieve this move?
yours
Ken

Hi Graham,
We have tickets with the Engineering team to test the plugins with Moodle 3.1. All being well we are aiming for a released at the end of July.
Thanks
Caroline

Just wondering when this plugin is going to be updated to work with Moodle 3.1?
Thanks,

Thanks for the information, John.
I was aware of that, however, we use a grade in Moodle so that students-and moderators-can see the final mark of the assignment in the "Overall grade" column,
We use the following score:
30 - Moodle shows "Resubmit" in the Overall grade column
60-Moodle shows Pass
100 -Moodle shows Distinction.
Because students find confusing the score numbers that appear in the Grade column, we would like to hide that column

Hi Mari Cruz,
We don't hide it unless GradeMark is not enabled, if you select none for the grade in the assignment settings though the column will always show "N/A" and not a grade given in GradeMark.
Regards
John

Hi,
I want to hide the "Grade" column as we don´t want to display any numeric score in Moodle. Could please give me a tip on which part of the code I should modify?
Thank you very much for your advice.
Mari Cruz

Awesome! Thanks John. We did find a workaround for Google Chrome but not Safari.

Hi Andrew, this was fixed in 2016011102. I you'd like to see the github commit that fixed the problem it's at: https://github.com/turnitin/moodle-mod_turnitintooltwo/commit/57446fb

Update: It does work on some Mac's with Google Chrome.

Hi,
We are finding that Apple Mac users cannot view reports via Moodle (by clicking on the similarity score percentage). In Safari the browser opens a new tab or window but nothing is displayed and the browser seems to hang with the blue loading progress bar on or around the "or" in the sentence "Search Google or enter an address". Sometimes a small square briefly displays in the top left corner of the webpage.
On the same system, browser and browser session viewing the report directly via turnitin.com DOES work.
Same issue on Chrome (confirmed) and FireFox (user-reported, unconfirmed at this stage)
We have version 2015040102 of the Turnitin plugin.
Any advice appreciated!!
Thanks,
Andrew