Turnitin Direct V2 Integration and LDAP authentication in Moodle

When using the LDAP authentication in Moodle, if an student is set as on hold (could be because he/she didn't pay the fees) in LDAP the student will still have the account and data in the Moodle database but he/she will just not able to login to Moodle.

Under the above circumstances, the student cann't login in Moodle so therefore can not do any submission in Turnitin.

But you might have some questions under the above circumstances,


1. What if a lecturer refresh the and student submission in a Turnitin activity and the student is not active anymore in LDAP, so he can not login into Moodle anymore?

When refreshing you will notice that the similarity changes to 'Pending' and Turnitin will not return any further report for that student, so the similarity percent showed by the Turnitin Direct V2 plugin in Moodle will always stay as 'Pending'.

2. What if a lecturer goes to the Turnitin activity and submit a paper in behalf of the student?

I still need to test it but I suppose the result of that action will be the same as in question 1 above.

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Turnitin: Printing Originality Reports

Step 1. Go to your main course page and click in the Turnitin activity.



Step 2. Click the “Submission Inbox” tab


 Step 3. Click in the “Similarity %” for the student and the report will open



 Step 4. A new window will open with the student report (It will take a bit to open, around 10 seconds). Make sure that the selected tab in to top-left is ‘Originality’



Step 5. In the bottom-left of the page, click in the “Printer Icon” and choose the option “Download pdf of current view for printing”. You can now print the PDF by going to the place where it has been saved in your computer.

Turnitin Assignment shows a ‘Read Only’ mode?

You might find the message on the right in your turnitin activities.

A. What does this message mean?

When you are using the Moodle Direct v2 plugin and a Turnitin activity is created for the first time in a course, a Class ID corresponding to that course is applied in the Turnitin database.

The default end date for this ID is set to six months from the creation date or to the date of the latest post-date for the Turnitin assignments in the class. Once the end date is reached, the Turnitin course becomes “expired,” which means any submissions in the class are read-only.

B. When is it happening?

This is a problem that is happening in this course because you are reusing Turnitin Activities created last year or in the years before. When you start a new semester you get a copy of your course where you can reuse everything from the last year but you shouldn't reuse the Turnitin activities, in that case, everytime you start a new semester, you need to delete the old Turnitin activities and create new activities.

C. How do I solve the problem?

To solve this problem the post date will need to be extended by...

1. Go to your course main page and click in the Turnitin activiy link where you have the read only mode

2.Mare sure you are on the Summary tab. You will see the Start, Due and Post Date as in the screenshot below...



3.On the right (see above in red) click in the icon and you will see the dates as below...



4. Change the Post Date to a future date (*Note: The Post Date is the date that marks and feedback from GradeMark are released to students).

5. Open some of the student reports and check that now the read mode is not showing

6. Go back to the same setting and set the 'Post date' to it original value or to the date you wish

7. Even you changed the date back to it's original value, the read only mode still not appearing again


* To solve this issue I got inspired here

**Here and here are complete guides for Turnitin in Moodle Direct V2

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