The basic integration is much like an LTI integration where you are essentially pushing all the service calls out to turnitin for ui functionality while still having a pass back of grade details and ability to look at statistics. This is what we use and we are on q2 2017 cu5. And are using this with our new SaaS platform as well. The direct integration is suppose to offer more Turnitin UI functionality inside the BB environment but I can't speak to the stability of that. I do know that going basic there are some turnitin integration features we don't get but they seem to be of little consequence to our faculty here.
Hi George,
The basic integration is much like an LTI integration where you are essentially pushing all the service calls out to turnitin for ui functionality while still having a pass back of grade details and ability to look at statistics. This is what we use and we are on q2 2017 cu5. And are using this with our new SaaS platform as well. The direct integration is suppose to offer more Turnitin UI functionality inside the BB environment but I can't speak to the stability of that. I do know that going basic there are some turnitin integration features we don't get but they seem to be of little consequence to our faculty here.
Nathan