How to switch from the old submissions (popup) to the new Assignments (page)

Create a Student group (Guest account) for Self-Signup

All students or guests of your organization who will participate in an Assignment should be added to this group. If your organization allows self-signup then this is the group that your students and guests should be added to when they register through an Assignment invite. Additionally, you could also add existing users to this group.

Create a Student group (with guest accounts), as follows:

1. Click on Administration in the menu on the top right-hand side of the page.

2. Click on Groups (Subdivisions) in the menu on the left-hand side.

3. Click on the ‍Add group button to open the Add group popup.

4. In Group name type in a name for the group.

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   Make sure the Group name is easy to identify for you later on, but not too cryptic. Students who move through the Self-Signup process will see the group name. We suggest ‘Students (Guest account)’ or similar.

5. To create a Student group with guest accounts you can use the template we provide by selecting Student group (Guest account) in the Copy settings from dropdown.
   This will create a group where users can only submit documents for Assignments. They will not be able to upload documents independently of Assignments nor check any document for plagiarism themselves.

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   The Assignment creator will be the owner of any uploaded documents for his Assignment. Students can view their own submitted document. Based on the Assignment settings, students may also be able to view, comment or edit the plagiarism report for their submitted document.

6. To create this group click on the Create group button in the bottom right of the popup.

Next steps:

You have two options to continue:

• If you want to assign this group to already existing users, you can do so in the Users page. You can continue by following the steps in the manual for how to assign your Student group to existing users.

• If you want the students to create new user accounts into this group themselves (Self-signup), you need to make sure this group is selected in your Global Policy for Assignment Submissions Style. Read on here to set it up: Enable Self-Signup into the Student group (Guest account).
  Once you’re done, everyone who creates an Assignment can invite Participants. They can then self-signup into the Student group (Guest account) when submitting a document for an Assignment for the first time.

Assigning your Student group to existing users

If you have a Student group (Guest account) to be used for participants who can be invited to assignments, the following steps will tell you how you can add existing users to this group.

If not, follow the manual for how to Create a Student group (Guest account)

Assign your Student group (Guest account) to existing users

1. Click on Administration in the menu on the top right-hand side of the page.

2. In the menu of the left-hand side click on ‍Users.

3. In the user list, select all the users you would like to add to your Student group (Guest account).

4. Choose your Student group in the Assign group dropdown above the user list.

5. You will receive a success message, letting you know that the selected users were updated.

Enable Self-Signup into the strongly restricted Student group (with Guest accounts) for Submissions

By setting this policy the following way, you can enable students to self-signup into the strongly restricted Student group (with guest accounts).

1. Click on Administration in the menu on the top right-hand side of the page.

2. In the menu on the left-hand side click on ‍Global policies.

3. Click on User permissions in the top categories.

4. Click on Assignment Submission Style.

5. In the first select field, choose Submission requires a user account.
   As the name indicates, the user needs to be registered with PlagScan through your organization to be able to submit documents to Assignments.

6. In the appearing second select field, choose Self-signup into Student group.
   With this option you can allow Instructors to invite students to self-signup for an account with PlagScan, if they do not already have one, just before they upload a document to an Assignment. In order to choose this option, you need a Student group (with Guest accounts).

If you do not have a Students group (Guest account) yet, and want to enable self-signup into that (strongly restricted) Students group, please read how to Create a Student group (Guest account) for Self-Signup here.

Enable the new Assignments page for all of your organization's users

How to give your whole organization access to the new page for Assignments (instead of the old submissions popup):

1. Click on Administration in the menu on the top right-hand side of the page.

2. In the menu on the left-hand side click on ‍Users.

3. On the top left of the page click the ‍Configure user settings link to open the organization-wide user settings popup.

4. Scroll down the popup to the Assignment Submissions Style row. Click on this row.

5. In the column Apply to existing and new users click on the radio button in the row New improved.

6. If you want to hide this setting on your users' Settings page to declutter their interface, click on the Hidden button below For the user this setting is.

7. Click on the Change configuration button at the bottom right to update the configuration.

    

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   If you apply the Assignment submissions style to existing and new users here, you do not have to update any group configurations. The setting will automatically apply to all groups who have the right to create Assignments.