Digital Education Wiki Spaces
Accessibility — Assessment — CampusPress Guides — Digital Education — Gradescope Guides — Learning Technology Good Practice — Lecture Recording — Mentimeter — Moodle Baseline — Moodle How-Tos — Multimedia — Student Online Learning — Zoom
How to request the removal of a submission from Turnitin’s repository
If a file is submitted in error, it may be necessary to request that it is removed from Turnitin’s repository. However, not all incorrect file submissions require such a request to be made. This guide considers two scenarios where a student may submit a file in error and how to correct the situation:
You only need to request the removal of a submission from Turnitin’s repository for the second of these scenarios, and only when two conditions exist together:
a student submits to the wrong Moodle assignment activity in the wrong course
Turnitin is enabled in that wrong activity and the ‘Store student papers’ setting is set to ‘standard repository’.
If this is the case, please skip to the section Student submits to the wrong Moodle assignment activity below.
Student submits the wrong file to the correct Moodle assignment activity
Students sometimes submit the wrong file to a Moodle assignment activity with Turnitin enabled. Even if a similarity report has already been generated for the submission, it is still possible for the incorrectly uploaded file to be replaced and a new similarity report generated, provided both the following conditions are met:
the Moodle assignment activity has been set up so that students can resubmit to Moodle until the due date and time (i.e. ‘Require students to click the submit button’ has not been enabled).
within the Turnitin settings of the Moodle assignment, the ‘Report Generation Speed' setting is set to either ‘Generate reports immediately. Submissions will be added to the repository on due date (if repository is set)' or ‘Generate reports on due date. Submissions will be added to the repository on due date (if repository is set).’
Student submits to the wrong Moodle assignment activity
There are also situations where the file has been submitted to the wrong Moodle assignment activity all together. If the assignment is also in the wrong course, and the student subsequently submits to the the correct assignment in the correct course, the latter submission will be given a 100% similarity score due to self-plagiarism.
To prevent such an eventuality, a paper deletion request must be submitted to remove the incorrect submission from the Turnitin repository before the student submits to the correct assignment. To do this:
Email eden.digital@lse.ac.uk
In the email, cite the Turnitin ID for submission (found in the Moodle submissions table)
In the email, provide a link the Moodle assignment activity to which the file was incorrectly submitted .
The Digital Education team will request the removal of the initial file submission from the Turnitin repository. Once this has been done, the team will let you know that the student can proceed with submitting to the correct Moodle assignment activity.
What if the student has already submitted to the correct assignment?
If the removal request is made after the student submits to the correct assignment activity, you can generate a new similarity report after the incorrect submission has been deleted. To do this:
Click the red filter icon to open the filter panel
Click ‘New Report’.
These pages are created by the LSE Digital Education Team and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License CC BY-SA 4.0