1.  Allow Submissions after the Due Date: Set this to Yes if you want to allow students to submit beyond the due date.

  2. Report Generation Speed: There are three options for this assignment setting:
    • Generate reports immediately (resubmissions are not allowed) generates a Similarity Report immediately after a student makes a submission. With this option selected your students will not be able to resubmit the assignment.
    • Generate reports immediately (resubmissions are allowed until due date) allows students to continuously resubmit the assignment until the due date. Note that it will take up to 24 hours to process Similarity Reports for resubmissions.
    • Generate reports on due date (resubmissions are allowed until due date) only generates a Similarity Report on the assignment's due date. This setting allows all assignment submissions to be compared against each other when the Similarity Reports are created.
  3. Store Student Papers: This setting allows you to choose if and where copies of students’ submissions are saved. The options are:
    • No repository: If you select this option, your students' submissions will not be stored in any repository. This means that if two students submit the same paper to the same assignment, Turnitin will not find any match.
    • Standard repository: If you select this option, your students’ submissions will be stored in the (global) Turnitin student paper repository. The benefit of storing papers to the standard repository is that student submissions to the assignment are checked against other institutions' student submissions.
    • Institutional repository: If you select this option, your students’ submissions will be stored in the MIC student paper repository.
    Important Consideration for Turnitin Repository Options: Personal student identification data is potentially accessible if submissions are stored in the standard repository, e.g. where student names and ID numbers are included on assignment cover pages and/or within the headers and footers of documents. Where assignments contain student data or sensitive information, it is advisable to store copies of assignment submissions to the institutional repository. Implications and solutions may be considered at a departmental, faculty or College level.
  4. Check against stored student papers: Select Yes to check submissions' similarity against those stored in the Turnitin standard repository. Similarity reports will provide details for matches within your current and previous classes, and general information for other matches found.
  5. Check against internet: Select Yes to check submissions' similarity with internet content.

  6. Check against journals, periodicals, and publications: Select Yes to check submissions' similarity with content from academic publications.
  7. Check against Institutional Repository: Select Yes to check against MIC’s institutional paper repository, which only contains student work submitted at MIC.

  8. Exclude Bibliography: Select Yes if you would like to exclude the bibliography section of student submissions from similarity checking.
  9. Exclude Quoted Material: Select Yes if you would like Turnitin to skip over any quotes used in the student submission, as these are more likely to match works submitted elsewhere.
  10. Exclude Small Matches: Enter the minimum number of words or percentage of the essay that need to match in order to flag a section of the student submission. This can cut down on commonly used phrases being flagged for similarity.
    11. Note: These exclusion settings can be overridden within individual Similarity Reports.