Last week I updated the turnitin version in CONTRIB – and I realised there have been a few changes recently, but I haven’t actually mentioned them anywhere! – here is an attempt at some “release notes” for those interested!

• Improved display of errors to both Students and Teachers -  errors in the 1000 series are now printed directly to the screen instead of just displaying the error code to teachers.
• A new option to the advanced assignment type has been added to allow teachers to choose when the files are submitted to turnitin – before or after a student has submitted the files for marking. (thanks to Darren Harkness from Athabasca for this patch!)
• 419 error codes were occurring for older assignments due to a bug that has been fixed
• 407 error codes were occurring due to the API calls happening too fast for the Turnitin API to catch up
• 31 error codes were occurring due to files being deleted before submission to Turnitin – a check for file existence was shifted to address this.
• new css class added to similarity links to allow better control in css
• improved error checking and debugging information to various areas.
• A bug with the logic checking for closed activities has been fixed

Hope that’s useful for some people! – I’ve also been talking with the Crot block authors this past week – I’m hoping there’s a way we can integrate the crot and turnitin work so that they are both available via a similar interface!

3 March 09 Edit: looks like I introduced a bug with the single upload assignment type in this last change – should be fixed now!