Submitting a batch submission to Turnitin

A batch submission to Turnitin is usually done by uploading zip files to the facility. It is possible to do a sort of "speed-upload" to it, but it's not much faster than doing individual uploads, and we recommend using zip files.

To upload zip files, login to Turnitin, and go to the home page of the class to which you'd like to upload the files. In this case there's only one assignment set up so far.

Go into the assignment list that you want to upload to, in this case, the only one:

Click on the 'submit paper' icon.  This will bring up the upload window as in the instructions for uploading single files. However, if you click on the drop-down and choose 'zip file' then the dialogue box changes to look like the one below:

Find the zip file that you'd like to upload using the browse button, and click on submit. The window changes to show something like the following:

Occasionally, there are problems with zip files that cause the upload not to work properly. If these occur, click here for a page about zip file problems, and how to avoid them.

Note in the screen capture above the file names are typical ordinary file names, whereas if the content has come from LUVLE as a zip file, they'll be one of two forms, according to how the course submission area's been set up. Firstly, not anonymised, in which each file's name has had the student's name, library card and extra system id appended to the front of it, eg.: Billy_Bragg_01234567_ABCD_Essay.doc

Or secondly, anonymised, in which the name is replaced with the word 'Anon' to make it more difficult for the person marking to identify the student, for example:

Anon_012345678_ABCD_Essay.doc

To continue with the upload process, click on submit again on this screen too, and the 'confirm upload' screen appears:

click on submit again, and the files are all submitted. Note that initially, the files haven't been checked, so the report icons are greyed out:

After a few minutes, depending on the number of files to be processed, and how busy the server is, the Turnitin website returns its result for each file submitted, and this is shown in this list as a percentage figure.

In the example shown, which is an example created specially to demonstrate Turnitin, there is a very wide range of matching. The first one looks like an almost identical version of it is already in the student repository. The second has been deliberately made to produce a high score. The third is the sort of percentage matching that might attract further attention in a real situation. The last two are genuine original documents and so score zero.