Submitting assignments

During assessment submission week it is likely that multiple modules taught across the University will have the same submission deadline. During busy times it may take longer than usual to load the necessary web pages and upload your documents. Please ensure that you give yourself enough time to navigate the correct submission area, upload, check and submit your work.

We strongly advise that you submit as early as possible.

The first page of your assignment must always be the coversheet that is appropriate to your specific assignment. Please ensure that you double check your coversheet as there are different coversheets for different assignment types; including individual assignments, group work, video submission and dissertations.

Your  assignment brief will tell you which coversheet to use, and a link to download the coversheet can  be  found  in  the  Module  Information section  of your module on Minerva.

Individual work assessment
When uploading to the submission area, you must ensure that the Submission Title and file name is your Student ID. No other submission title will be considered a correct submission.

Group work assessment
When uploading to the submission area, you must ensure that the Submission Title and file name is your Group Name or Group Number.

Attach the correct file that you want to submit and click 'Upload'. Double check that this is the correct file in the resulting document viewer, and then click 'Confirm' to submit your work. Failure to click 'Confirm' will result in an unsuccessful submission.

You should have been notified that your assignment has been submitted. Navigate back to the submission area and click 'View' to review your submission in the document viewer.

You have not finished until you see a Turnitin receipt and Paper ID on screen. From within the document viewer, click the download icon to download your digital receipt.

Save your receipt in a safe place. This will be the only accepted proof of submission.

The upload limit on Turnitin is 40mb.  If your file is larger than this, it is usually because you have large image files embedded which need to be compressed see the guide on Compressing Files.

Turnitin UK accepts the following file types: Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, PostScript, PDF, HTML, RTF and plain text.

Please also see the filename guidelines for characters which should not be included in the name of your file.

You can only submit one file per assignment. You need to make sure all your work is saved under the one file name before submission.

In a small number of cases, corrupt caching settings within the Safari browser has caused the session to hang and submissions to fail. If this occurs then users should take the following steps:

1. Go to the Safari Preferences > Privacy tab > Manage Website Data.
2. Look for and remove the three cached websites below: (All three may not be present)
   - googlesyndication.com
   - googleservices.com
   - turnitinuk.com or turnitin.com
3. Close and reopen Safari.
4. Try submitting again.

Alternatively,  you can submit using Google Chrome (installed on the student desktop) or Mozilla Firefox.