Turnitin is currently experiencing an unexpected service incident.
During this time, you may find that you are unable to log in or access reports.
Users accessing these services via Blackboard may also be affected.
Further information is available on the Turnitin status page.
If you have any concerns or questions, please contact us by emailing digital-education@bristol.ac.uk.
On Saturday 28 October, between 09:00 – 09:30 BST, Turnitin will be performing maintenance on their system. During this window, Turnitin will be unavailable. You can stay up to date with the Turnitin system status on the Turnitin status page. We apologise for any inconvenience.
Turnitin has just informed us of its decision to cease support for assignment submissions on behalf of non-enrolled students, effective from 19 September. Submission on behalf of non-enrolled students is an integral part of the workflow that allowed instructors to bulk upload Blackboard assignments to turnitinuk.com to generate similarity reports.
From 19 September, student administrators who wish to continue using Turnitin similarity reports for Blackboard assignments will have to manually associate each submission with an enrolled student, following upload. If this is not feasible – due to large cohort size, for example – we recommend switching to using Turnitin assignments for student submissions, rather than Blackboard assignments. (If the submission requires multiple files per student, you will need two submission points: one via a Turnitin assignment, to generate the similarity report, and another via a Blackboard assignment, to manage the additional files.)
For group submissions, files must be submitted via Blackboard assignments; you will then need to download one file per group using the Marks and Feedback tool. Afterwards, you will upload these files to Turnitin and manually associate each of them with one group member in order to generate a similarity report.
More detailed guides for the options suggested here will be made available shortly.
If your school will be affected by Turnitin’s decision, please contact the DEO to notify us of the number of units that will be affected, by emailing us at digital-education@bristol.ac.uk
Turnitin have now informed us that the issue causing a delay in Similarity Report generation has been resolved.
Starting at 6:49 AM today, an unexpected service incident occurred in Turnitin Feedback Studio, causing a delay in the generation of similarity reports. The impact of this issue was limited and most Turnitin users were unaffected.
If you have any questions or concerns about this issue, or if you have been affected, please email digital-education@bristol.ac.uk.
Turnitin Feedback Studio is currently experiencing an unexpected service incident. Students remain able to submit work but may experience a delay in receiving a Similarity Report.
Further information is available on the Turnitin status page.
If you have any concerns or questions, please contact us by emailing digital-education@bristol.ac.uk.
As Preparation for the new academic year your unit Teams for 2022 will be archived on 31st August. This means that although the unit Teams and their SharPoint folders will still exist and be accessible, they will be set to be ‘read-only’. If you wish your unit Team to remain editable you can easily unarchive it if you are a Team owner. Please see instructions on how to do this here
Turnitin have informed us that their services will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance on Saturday 12 August between 15:00 and 23:00 BST. During this maintenance window, users will be unable to submit or mark papers, or to view marks, feedback or similarity reports.
Further information is available on the Turnitin status page.
This information is relevant if your school uses Turnitin to run similarity checks on PGR theses (practice, submission and re-submission).
PGR students who submitted work to a Turnitin submission point in Blackboard before September 2023 will not be able to access their theses in Blackboard after August 2023. This is due to the supplier ending support for the older Turnitin integration with Blackboard.
As we have communicated to schools directly, the DEO has been working with AQPO and representatives of administrative and academic staff to update the Blackboard Organisations for PGR Turnitin Submissions.
Please take the following actions by 31 August 2023:
Please also note that, from 1 September 2023, staff who need access to the older theses will need to contact the DEO.
It has been reported that staff may be experiencing intermittent issues with slowness when opening the Feedback Studio in Turnitin, and receiving errors when attempting to grade or add feedback.
Students making submissions are not affected by this issue.
Turnitin UK is aware of the issue and is currently working to bring the service back to optimum health. We will update this blog with any further developments.
If you have any concerns or questions, please contact us by emailing digital-education@bristol.ac.uk.
The interface for Blackboard submissions such as essays, some timed assessments and some exams is changing on June 2, 2023. There is no change to functionality.
After June 2, if students need to upload a submission, this option will be contained within a ‘concertina menu’. This makes the interface less confusing, allowing them to select the options they need without having to navigate the options they don’t.
Below are three images: one showing the current interface and two showing the new interface.
The old interface has all the ‘Attach Files’, ‘Write Submission’ and ‘Add Comments’ functions on display.
The new interface places the same features behind concertina menus.
Once expanded with a click, the same options are available.