TurnitInPDF2CSV: Export TurnitIn Report Data to CSV

This software allows users to perform a bulk export of data from a list of TurnitIn Feedback Studio generated reports. TurnitIn API does not support downloading comments added to student submission using TurnitIn's Feedback Studio. The released JAR file provides a GUI interface for exporting:

• Submission Paper ID
• Full Name
• Grade
• General Comment

How to use it?

1. Download the released JAR file to the desired folder on your machine.
2. Open the command line terminal.
3. Navigate to the folder with the downloaded JAR file. cd your_folder_path
4. Check whether the downloaded file is in the current folder. for MacOS type in ls for Windows type in dir
5. Run the downloaded JAR file java -jar TurnitInPDF2CSV.jar
6. You should see a screen with a directory chooser, asking user to select an input and output directories (see below).
7. Click on Select Input Directory button to select the folder that contains all PDF TurnitIn Reports that need to be processed.
8. Click on Select Output Directory button to select the folder which will contain the CSV containing extracted data.
9. Click Generate CSV
10. The TurnitInFeedback.csv will be added to the selected output folder. the terminal window will pring all text from the PDF reports and print the resulting extraction data in the end

Dependencies

Java Runtime Environment 8.0 and above. The released JAR comes embedded with the following libraries:

• pdf-box-2.0.19
• opencsv-5.2
• poi-4.1.2