How to submit a Moodle assignment (which may also include Turnitin)

This refers to Moodle 2.6 from September 2014 onwards

Check your Module or Course Handbook for information on how to submit assignments through Moodle. This may be through a link on the Moodle page for your module or it may be in a separate Moodle site set up by your School.

The TurnitinUK, test your text space in Moodle allows students to test their assignments by uploading them to receive an originality report for their own use before they submit the assignment for real.

Ensure that popups are enabled in your browser in order to submit.

To test a text BEFORE you submit it to your assignment dropbox

Go to TurnitinUK Test your text
Click "Participate in this module" (you will be enrolled for 1 week, long enough to test your text: you can re-enrol if you need to)
Click on the Turnitin assignment labelled for your campus, and with the highest number
Check back to see the Originality report. Note: You can get only 1 originality report per 24 hours.

See the Turnitin (& Moodle) assignment submission checklist for how to prepare your document for submission to an assignment dropbox.

To upload a document into a Moodle Assignment Dropbox

If you have been asked to submit an assignment through Moodle then you should find a Moodle Assignment dropbox in your module or other Moodle space.

Login to Moodle using your University username and password.
Enter the module that you would like to submit an assignment in.
Click on the assignment title, e.g.,

In the assignment click on Add submission

You can drag and drop files (Requires IE10 or above, Firefox or Chrome) or click the upload button (marked in the screenshot below) and browse to the file to upload it.

Click Save changes
There may be an extra step requiring you to click a Submit Assignment button.
If this button is present you must click it in order to finally submit your assignment. Before this time, you are free to change your submission, so you can leave it in DRAFT until you are sure – but make certain you click to finally submit BEFORE the deadline. Drafts are not always accepted.

You may be asked to agree to a Submission Statement (not all assignments have this step)

Your submission status will change
- to Draft (not submitted) if you need to click a Submit Assignment button (see below for example of this button) or
- to Submitted for grading if your assignment has finally and successfully been submitted

If the assignment is submitted to Turnitin (this is an option and may not be present in all cases), then you do not have to do anything further, but you will also see an acknowledgement message from Turnitin with your paper ID (see e.g., above). Make a note or save this paper ID (or screenshot or print this page) as it is the equivalent of your receipt and you will not get any other one.

Once you have submitted your assignment you will be able to see the Turnitin ID whenever you look at the assignment page, and in due course, if the lecturer has allowed students to see it, you may see a Similarity Score and be able to click on it to get into the Originality Report.

Once the work has been marked

You will be able to see your grade, feedback comments and feedback files by clicking into the assignment.

If the lecturer has marked in Turnitin Grademark, then view your feedback as follows:

Click on the assignment title
Click on the originality report percentage
In the Turnitin window, click on the Grademark tab. This will only be available IF marked in Grademark and IF the lecturer has made the feedback visible to students.

See also

Moodle Help & Support (Student)

Page tree

Once the work has been marked

Queries, comments or questions?

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