IMPROVEMENTS ON THE

ASSIGNMENT

ACTIVITY & TURNITIN

INTEGRATION

American University of Beirut -

AUB

Wissam Nahas - eLearning Manager

Moodle Team

Outline

Moodle at AUB

Using Assignment activity

Problems faced with Upload a single file

Advantages of using Advanced uploading of files

Our decision

Our improvements

Integration with Turnitin the plagiarism detection system

Q & A

American University of Beirut - AUB

Founded in 1866

Top university in the ME

Middle States' accreditation

64 buildings over an area of 61-

acre

More than 100 programs

Around 8000 students

Faculty to student ratio 1/13

LMS@ AUB

WebCT - Fall 2001

Moodle - Summer 2005

74% of AUB course-sections uses Moodle

(Using Moodle is optional by faculty)

Web-enhanced and Blended course delivery

A couple of online courses

Moodle 2

Piloting Moodle 2 – Summer 2012

Official move to Moodle 2 – Fall 2012

Using Assignment

Mostly used graded activity

Advanced uploading of files

Online text

Upload a single file

Offline activity

7133 assignments in 2633 courses

Problems faced with Upload a single file

The loss of previous submissions

Inability to submit more than one file at the same time

Hide/reveal assignment description manually

Inability to delete a student’s submission even by the

administrator

Advantages of Advanced uploading of

files

Allow deleting

More than one submission at a time

Allow addition of comments and notes

Hide/reveal description before available date

Enable send for marking

Our Decision

Stop using “Upload a single file” assignment type

“Advanced uploading of files” “File Upload”

Change the default settings

Allow deleting “NO”

Maximum number of uploaded files “1”

Enable send for marking “No”

When the submission is late, display the date and

time in red

Integration with Plagiarism Detection System

Plagiarism Detection System

Searched for open source solution

Turnitin is one of the best in the market

Integration with Moodle

Enable the use of the service in the assignment activity

Single sign on

2 Plug-ins (Moodle vs. Turnitin)

Both combined in

one type

Two in One

Turnitin

Settings

Turnitin settings

Student’s View

Note added automatically

when Turnitin setting is

enabled

Student’s

Submissio

n

Similarity

Report

Additional

note by the

student

Assignment

Description

Instructor’s View

Student’s Note

Student’s Submission Similarity Report

Display date and time in red when its late

Questions?

Thank you!

Contact information:

Wissam Nahas

wissamn@aub.edu.lb

Academic Core Processes & Systems

www.aub.edu.lb/it/acps

Moodle @ AUB

http://moodle.aub.edu.lb