Here is the problem:
Assignment set up, allowing student resubmissions with a due date set and due time set to 12:00.
The student can re-submit their paper as many times as they like, except on the due date (before 12:00) when they are told they can no longer re-submit their assignment and have to ask the tutor to delete the previous one.
This only happens with a due time of 12:00 (which most tutors use as the deadline, unfortunately!) and only on the due date.
If the assignment is due time is changed to 11:55 or 12:05 then the student can continue to resubmit as many times as they like until the deadline is reached.
To test this, you need to set the assignment up any time before the due date (it seems the problem is trigger by the passing of midnight / 00:00 on the due date)
We are using moodle 1.84+ with the first release of the integration module (which opens the turnitin interface in a frame in moodle).
Anyone else had this issue?
We only discovered this over the last few days with many submissions set as due at the end of semester just cropping up now. We are in conversation with turnitin.
Now resolved by TurnItIn.
We have been asked by our clients to look into the possibility of integrating turnitin into the moodle learning platform that we are currently supporting for them. What ideally we would like to see is Turnitin acting as a filter as participants submit their coursework via the assignment module. What we are seeing to date however looks like the submission stays on the turnitin platform instead of being 'returned' to the moodle platform. Is this indeed so and that is the case is there a workaround for this?
Best Regards
Lance Hinds
BrainStreet Technologies
Best Regards
Lance Hinds
BrainStreet Technologies
Hi Lance,
The plugin that has been made by Turnitin does not keep the submitted work on the Moodle server/system as you mentioned and also works via not the built-in assignment module, but by the creation of a new assignment type, the "Turnitin Assignment".
We are in discussions about making some changes to allow for the paper to be stored on the Moodle server as well as submitted to Turnitin, along with other changes, but we're not sure if or when such a release would be made at this point.
In the meantime, there is a plugin/patch that was developed by Dan Marsden that actually fits both of the requirements that you mentioned. You can give that one a try if you like, but Turnitin cannot readily support it (though we will try as best we can to help with any issues that might be caused by Turnitin itself), especially as we are not familiar with the code, how it is necessarily supposed to work, etc.
Our hope is though that we can work with Dan to further develop that plugin and get it to a point where it utilizes our API and makes available as many of our features as possible, for the satisfaction of our customers. That is also in discussion and hopefully something that will be coming down the line.
Hope this information helps.
Thanks,
Dave
The plugin that has been made by Turnitin does not keep the submitted work on the Moodle server/system as you mentioned and also works via not the built-in assignment module, but by the creation of a new assignment type, the "Turnitin Assignment".
We are in discussions about making some changes to allow for the paper to be stored on the Moodle server as well as submitted to Turnitin, along with other changes, but we're not sure if or when such a release would be made at this point.
In the meantime, there is a plugin/patch that was developed by Dan Marsden that actually fits both of the requirements that you mentioned. You can give that one a try if you like, but Turnitin cannot readily support it (though we will try as best we can to help with any issues that might be caused by Turnitin itself), especially as we are not familiar with the code, how it is necessarily supposed to work, etc.
Our hope is though that we can work with Dan to further develop that plugin and get it to a point where it utilizes our API and makes available as many of our features as possible, for the satisfaction of our customers. That is also in discussion and hopefully something that will be coming down the line.
Hope this information helps.
Thanks,
Dave
Hi Lance - as Dave mentions, I've written a patch that does what you're asking for Moodle 1.9 (there's also a 1.6 version available)
I'm hoping to get this in Moodle 2.0 Core so it doesn't require a 3rd party patch if I can get the $$ or time to spend on developing the 2.0 patch.
see the documentation here:
http://docs.moodle.org/en/Turnitin
I'm hoping to get this in Moodle 2.0 Core so it doesn't require a 3rd party patch if I can get the $$ or time to spend on developing the 2.0 patch.
see the documentation here:
http://docs.moodle.org/en/Turnitin
Hi Dave,
Please advise on the level of effort required to write a similiar patch for Moodle 1.8.
Best Regards
Lance
Please advise on the level of effort required to write a similiar patch for Moodle 1.8.
Best Regards
Lance
Hi Lance,
I'm sorry - I wouldn't know what the level of effort it would be to write a similar patch for Moodle 1.8 for the integration/patch that Dan wrote (I think that's the one you mean, right?).
Dan - care to comment?
Thanks,
Dave
I'm sorry - I wouldn't know what the level of effort it would be to write a similar patch for Moodle 1.8 for the integration/patch that Dan wrote (I think that's the one you mean, right?).
Dan - care to comment?
Thanks,
Dave
Hi Lance,
it should be pretty straightforward to provide a 1.8 patch.... if it's something you could be interested in funding, bounce me an e-mail offline, and we'll put a quote together
Dan
it should be pretty straightforward to provide a 1.8 patch.... if it's something you could be interested in funding, bounce me an e-mail offline, and we'll put a quote together
Dan