[Building Sakai] Create Turnitin Class & Assignment Process Flow in SAKAI

David Horwitz david.horwitz at uct.ac.za
Mon Oct 17 06:55:42 PDT 2011


Hi Paul,

Are you trying to integrate Test and Quizzes (Samigo) or assignments 
with Turnitin?

D

On 10/17/2011 03:39 PM, Paul Mungai wrote:
> I have checked the functions, createClass and createAssignment in 
> TurnitinReviewServiceImpl class (content-review-0.7).
> The latter even allows one to set the extra turnitin assignment 
> parameters which are not implemented in Sakai Assignments, causing 
> instructors to have to do double work in setting the assignment, in 
> cases where they do not want to use the default (as per SAMIGO) settings.
>
> However, we suggest that Sakai should create a Turnitin Class & 
> Assignment upon creating a SAKAI assignment(SAMIGO) if the user has 
> chosen to use Turnitin.
>
> While still creating the sakai assignment, one should be able to set 
> the parameters of the turnitin assignment (to avoid double work) such as:
> - Exclude bibliographic materials from Similarity Index for all papers 
> in this assignment?
> - Exclude quoted materials from Similarity Index for all papers in 
> this assignment?
> - Exclude small matches?
> - Allow students to see Originality Reports?
> - Search options: student paper repository, current and archived 
> internet, periodicals, journals, & publications
>
> We need to fix this ASAP, kindly comment if you are involved with the 
> SAKAI TTI & Samigo integration.
>
> What version of code (samigo & content-review-0.7) should we modify, 
> for versioning purposes after the fix.
>
> -- 
> Regards,
> Paul Mungai,
> University of the Witwatersrand,
> Johannesburg, South Africa
>
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