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Submitting Your Assignment on the MOD
Moore College uses a Moodle-based system with Turnitin functionality.
A typical submission made to an assignment will generate a Turnitin Originality Report. The Originality Report is the result of comparison between the text of the submission against billions of pages of active and archived internet information, a repository of works previously submitted to Turnitin, and a repository of tens of thousands of periodicals, journals, & publications. Any matching or highly similar text discovered is detailed in the Originality Report that is produced.
Your lecturer will have access to your originality report and will be able to decide for him/herself if the areas that show text matching are of concern or not. You will also see the originality report, although it will take a while to produce the report.
Turnitin has now added a report that will show the marker if it deems it highly likely that a portion of your work was created using AI, such as Chat GTP.
Please note: To reduce the percentage of matches in your work, it is important that double quotation marks (“…..”) are used around every quote and the source is cited.
Logging in to the MOD
Click on https://mod.moore.edu.au/
Click on the Single Sign On button
If required, Log in to the MOD with your Student ID and Universal Password. You should have received this information when you commenced the course.
Your screen should display the courses in which you are enrolled. Click on Dashboard if required.
Click on the name of the course for which you need to upload an assessment item
Uploading an assessment item
Click on the Assessments tile and scroll down to access the assignment. In thise example, it is a final essay that will be submitted.
Click on the Add Submission button
Click on the checkbox, drag and drop your PDF file into the box and click on the Save changes button.
Please Note:
Most assessment items will require you to include a Title Page before you upload the assessment. (See Course Resouces/Assessment Resources for the template.)
The title page, assessment item and bibliography should all be uploaded as ONE PDF document – not separate items.
You will see a submission status of “Submitted for grading” and your Turnitin status will probably show as “Queued”.
Wait for the Turnitin report to load before exiting from the unit. This requires patience. The report will show where Turnitin has found text matches on the internet. For more information on understanding your report, please see the next page.
Please Note:
You can resubmit (i.e. delete the current submission and upload another) only up to the due date. Once the due date has passed, you will no longer be able to resubmit. To do this, you will need to click on Edit Submission, and then Delete Submission to delete the old submission before uploading the new submission.
The Turnitin Report
The report will appear once you have uploaded your assignment. This allows you to make changes to your assignment and resubmit it (providing it is prior to the deadline for submission).
Please be aware that it can take quite some time to run the report, especially if it is near the deadline and many students are uploading at the same time. At busy times, you will need to allow for an hour or more for the report to appear. You will know it is ready when you see a coloured block with a percentage appear below the filename.
Sometimes clicking on the Reload this page icon can help speed up the display of the report, but don’t click on it too soon or the report might not appear at all!
PLEASE NOTE:
There is no magic “cut-off” percentage of what an acceptable level of matches is. If you have a 0% match, it will look suspicious as Turnitin® should (at the very least) be matching the title page and book references in your footnotes.
The report will give you an opportunity, prior to the submission deadline, to see if there are any areas where you may not have referenced properly.
Please do not contact your lecturer about your Originality Report.
How to access and interpret your Turnitin Report
From the Submission page, click on the Percentage shown in the coloured block and your assessment will open in Feedback Studio.
To view the Match Overview, click on the red, numerical similarity score from the product toolbar.
The Match Overview will be displayed within the Match Overview side panel. (Example shown below.)
Any matches within the paper itself are highlighted in different colours. Each match is colour coded and numbered to help you identify them easily.
(Example shown below.)
By clicking on one of the sources from the Match Overview side panel, you can discover how many matches have been found for each source. Click the navigation arrows to jump from one match to the next; this will move you through the paper itself.
Should you wish to see a match breakdown for each source, click the arrow to the right of the source.
PLEASE NOTE: The match(es) that Turnitin® displays may not necessarily be the source(s) that you used. Turnitin® simply returns the FIRST match that it finds. This may, or may not, match your actual source.
Tips for using Turnitin® Originality Reports
➡️ The Originality Report you see is exactly the same as the one the markers see. Please do NOT contact the lecturer/marker/tutor to explain your report.
➡️ Do not wait until near to the submission date and time to check the Originality Report. It is best to upload your draft a few days before the due date, to see if you need to make changes before your final submission.
➡️ You are allowed three resubmission attempts where the Originality Report should generate within an hour. After three attempts, you'll have to wait 24 hours before a new Originality Report can be generated.
➡️ If you submit the same paper more than once, the Originality Report may display a Percentage match of 100%. Don’t panic if this happens, as your marker will be able to identify that it is matching with your own (previous) paper.
➡️ A low % match does not necessarily mean that there are no plagiarism issues with your paper. Your marker will still be considering plagiarism issues in the light of printed text that is not published on the internet.
How to make changes to your submission
If it is before the due date and you want to upload a modified version of your assessment, you must first delete the previous document. Do this by clicking on Remove Submission and then on Continue.
Tick the declaration checkbox, upload the new file and click on Save Changes.
PLEASE NOTE:
You will not be able to remove a previous submission and upload a new one after the deadline on the due date.
If you try to submit an assignment after the cut-off date (generally two weeks after the initial due date), you will not be able to submit it on the MOD. If this happens, please send it immediately as a PDF to RegistrarDept@moore.edu.au explaining why you could not upload it.
Do not expect to receive a Turnitin report just a few minutes before submission time – you need to submit it well in advance of the deadline (preferably a day or two earlier to have time to make any changes).
Understanding your assignment that was marked using Turnitin.
Viewing the feedback
When you get an email letting you know the feedback has been released, just click on the pencil icon
and it will open in Feedback Studio.
Below is a description of what you may see in your assignment:
Comment Bubbles look like this
Just click on the comment to see the full text.
Inline referencing looks like this:
You can move it around by using drag and drop but you cannot change the text.
QuickMarks look like this:
Click on the Quickmark to see the longer explanation.
To see overall comments from the marker, click on the Feedback Summary icon
Electronic Marking Grid
If there is an electronic rubric (marking grid) attached to your assignment, click on the Rubric/Form icon in the sidebar.
This will open the marking grid in a separate window. The selection made by the marker will be lightly shaded. If it does not open a separate window, click on the icon.
When you have finished viewing it, click on the Close button.
Please note: Our rubrics do not have marks attached to them in Turnitin.
Downloading your Results
If you want to save a copy of the assignment, with feedback comments and the rubric, click on the Download icon
Select Current view and follow the prompts.
You can scroll to the end of the downloaded assignment for a summary of the comments and the rubric.
Please note: You can choose whether or not to see the feedback and the Similarity report by selecting or deselecting the checkboxes as shown below. Click on the Layers icon to access the checkboxes.
