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

[David Horwitz]

Hi,

On 10/17/2011 04:24 PM, Paul Mungai wrote:
> Apologies David,
>
> I got mixed up in the two, I referred to assignments2.
>
> Apparently all of the mentioned features cannot be set by the user in 
> Assignments2. However, most are available from the Turnitin API.
>
> Again, something I mentioned earlier, The class and assignments are 
> not created in turnitin as they ought to be, and thus the suggestion 
> that these should be created during the creation of an assignment2. 
> Currently this is attempted when a student has submitted an 
> assignment, and it fails. We are using Sakai 2.8.0.
>
This sounds like a configuration error - we use Assign2 and it 
succesfully creates the classes.


> We therefore need to do two things:
>
> 1. Ensure that the class and assignment is created during the 
> assignment creation process (Assignments2)
> 2. Add the following turnitin settings to Assignments2:
> - 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
>
>

The last one of these exists in the assignments2 intgration I believe

D


> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 4:09 PM, David Horwitz 
> <david.horwitz at uct.ac.za <mailto:david.horwitz at uct.ac.za>> wrote:
>
>     Aha,
>
>     Not all of the options you mention, I believe, are available from
>     the API turnitin provides. The functionality you mention in the
>     service not used by assignments is used by assignments2 - you
>     might have a look at that to see how its called ...
>
>     D
>
>
>     On 10/17/2011 04:05 PM, Paul Mungai wrote:
>>     Hi David,
>>
>>     Its Tests & Quizzes (Samigo)
>>
>>
>>     On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 3:55 PM, David Horwitz
>>     <david.horwitz at uct.ac.za <mailto:david.horwitz at uct.ac.za>> wrote:
>>
>>         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
>>>
>>>         "Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation
>>>         determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do
>>>         it" By Lou Holtz, Notre Dame Football Coach
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>>     Paul Mungai,
>>     University of the Witwatersrand,
>>     Johannesburg, South Africa
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