Integration of turninit...

we purchased a liscense to turnitin.com.  The first step was setting up the administrative account, which was forwarded to me in email from our sales guy.  I was able to change the admin. credentials to my name, even though he was the initial contact.  This is the admin account at their site.

After logging in at turnitin, I followed the directions provided in this document on how to configure your LDM, moodle in my case, with turnitin.  I choose the Moodle Direct install package and downloaded it.

After unzipping and copying the folder into the root of the mod folder in my installation, I was greeted by the very familiar moodle update screen.

Before allowing the installation to continue, I completed the required steps of configuring my moodle environment a bit more.  This software make me look in my php.ini file and ensure that i had curl support enabled.  I looked and already had it enabled.  Moodle requires it during the setup of the server environment. I also had to add a new line to my config.php file, $CFC->dbpersist=false;  Self explanitory, but still makes me a little uneasy.  This is the first plugin that I have installed in moodle that has required me to modify this file.

Besides the zip file that I downloaded from the turnitin configuration process, I also was able to download an installation guide from this page.  http://turnitin.com/en_us/support/integrations/moodle-direct#userManuals

I am stepping through the administration set up guide now and configuring moodle accordingly.

Once the install was complete, it took me a few minutes to find the configuration interface for the new plugin turnitin.  I found it

• Site administration
• / ► Plugins
• / ► Activity modules
• / ► Turnitin Assignment

 In this form are numerous options, including the all numeric account # that is required to connect moodle to turnitin.  This # was not clear to me, I tried the account name that was created by our sales rep, I tried the test login id created during the install, i even tried my email address, which is the username - each time my connection failed.  Finally, i looked in the glossary of the administration guide for the definition of account id and saw where it said a numeric number for a specific account....duh!



I logged back into the turnitin.com site and saw my account credentials, including a little 5 digit # at the left of the row.....duh duh!!

Once I had supplies that number and the shared key specified during the installation, I was able to make a successful connection from my moodle server to the turnitin server.



When I click on green configured button, I see this interface, indicating that i have configured using Moodle Direct,