Turnitin have now advised us that the issue affecting Turnitin Similarity Reports and Feedback Studio has been resolved.
The incident occurred between May 10th 10:22 and May 10th 14:05.
If you have any questions or concerns, please email digital-education@bristol.ac.uk.
This issue has now been resolved.
Turnitin are reporting degraded performance affecting Similarity Reports and Feedback studio. During this time you may find you are unable to load, or experience slow loading times for, Feedback Studio.
Students remain able to submit work and view marks and feedback.
We apologise for any inconvenience and will blog again when this issue has been resolved. You can also track this incident on the Turnitin status page.
If you have any questions or concerns, please email digital-education@bristol.ac.uk.
Turnitin have now advised us that the issue affecting Turnitin Feedback Studio has been resolved.
If you have any questions or concerns, please email digital-education@bristol.ac.uk.
Edit: Turnitin have advised us that the emergency maintenance is taking longer than anticipated.
To resolve the issue affecting Turnitin Feedback Studio, Turnitin have advised us that there will be emergency maintenance taking place today, Wednesday 6th April from 11:00 BST and is expected to last for an hour. We apologise for any inconvenience caused. If you have any questions, please email digital-education@bristol.ac.uk.
You can stay up to date with Turnitin system status by visiting the Turnitin status page.
This issue has now been resolved.
Turnitin have reported they are currently experiencing an unplanned service incident.
Staff using the Feedback Studio may experience intermittent errors.
We apologise for any inconvenience and will blog again when this issue has been resolved. You can also track this incident on the Turnitin status page.
If you have any questions or concerns, please email digital-education@bristol.ac.uk.
The issue affecting some users getting error messages or delays when accessing or submitting Turnitin papers appears to have been resolved.
This issue now appears to be resolved.
Some users are currently getting error messages or delays when accessing or submitting Turnitin papers. This appears to be affecting all institutions using Turnitin.
This has been reported to Turnitin and we will provide an update as soon as we have any further information from the supplier.
We apologise for any inconvenience. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact digital-education@bristol.ac.uk
‘Exclude assignment template’ is a new option for Instructors which allows a template to be attached to a Turnitin assignment, the content of which will automatically be excluded from the Similarity Report. The template could, for example, include standard text or a cover sheet.
How to access this new feature?
When setting up or editing a Turnitin assignment, ‘Exclude assignment template’ is found under Optional settings:
Figure 1: Exclude assignment template menu.
You have two options:
Make sure you check the template requirements:
When you have added your template, submit the Turnitin settings as usual.
Please note that once a student has made a submission to the assignment the template for that assignment can no longer be edited.
If you have any questions, please contact digital-education@bristol.ac.uk.
We are pleased to report that the issue affecting access to Turnitin submissions through the Grade Centre and My Grades has now been resolved.
If you have any concerns or questions, please email digital-education@bristol.ac.uk.
We are aware of an issue that is currently affecting instructors accessing Turnitin submissions via the Grade Centre, and students accessing their Turnitin submissions via My Grades. Users are seeing an error message when trying to access Turnitin through these routes. We are currently investigating this issue with Turnitin and Blackboard.
In the meantime, it is still possible to access submissions via the ‘Course Management’ menu by expanding ‘Course Tools’ and selecting ‘Turnitin Assignments’. Students are able to view their marks and feedback via the submission point; these will need to be made available if they are not already.
If you have any concerns or questions, please email digital-education@bristol.ac.uk.