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

[Bryan Holladay]

As of ASNN-746 & SAK-21059, Assignment 1 and Assignment 2 have the
same TII settings


On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:37 AM, David Horwitz <david.horwitz at uct.ac.za> wrote:
> 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>
> 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>
>> 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
>>>
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>>> do. Attitude determines how well you do it" By Lou Holtz, Notre Dame
>>> Football Coach
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>> Regards,
>> Paul Mungai,
>> University of the Witwatersrand,
>> Johannesburg, South Africa
>>
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>> do. Attitude determines how well you do it" By Lou Holtz, Notre Dame
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> --
> Regards,
> Paul Mungai,
> University of the Witwatersrand,
> Johannesburg, South Africa
>
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> Attitude determines how well you do it" By Lou Holtz, Notre Dame Football
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