Moodle and Turnitin - a direct integration?
Note: This post is about integrating Turnitin with Moodle 1.9, if you have made the leap to 2.0 it may not be relevant to you. If you are assessing a turnitin integration for any other VLE, it's worth reading this post to see what things to watch out for.
If you read the turnitin blurb on their direct Moodle integration, it sounds fantastic. It offers a proper "moodle like" experience (rather than turnitin in a frame), and it gives the impression that you get the full feature set of turnitin, minus peer mark. Even better, you can run both integrations side by side, so you could keep the basic integration there for Peer mark, and use the direct one for everything else. We switched to this at the beginning of last semester (February. Funny time to switch, but we had our reasons), and have since found that everything is not quite as we expected. For the benefit of anyone else considering the direct integration, this is my review of the its good and bad parts.
