Turnitin Assignments

This guide will walk you through the process of having your students submit assignments through the Turnitin program to detect possible plagiarism. The program takes the submitted assignment and checks it against billions of pages on the internet and papers already submitted through Turnitin and submits an originality report.

Creating a Turnitin Assignment:

Step 1: Click on the Control Panel link.

Step 2: Click on the Content Area you want the assignment in, such as Assignments or Course Documents.

Step 3: Navigate to the folder you want the assignment under (or do nothing if you want to have it on the main page of that Content Area ) and choose Turnitin Assignment from the drop down box and click Go.

Step 4: Give the assignment a Title and any Special Instructions for the students to pay attention to. Set whether you want the item Available and the dates for it to be displayed. If you will be displaying the assignment until a certain date, click the Display Until checkbox. The date displayed until must come after the date it's displayed after.

Step 5: Hit the Submit button to create the assignment. Hit the button to close the confirmation receipt.

Using the Turnitin Module:

Step 1: Click on the Control Panel link.

Step 2: Click on the Turnitin Assignments link.

Step 3: Click on the View link for the assignment you wish to view.

Step 4: You will see a list of all the students that have submitted a file, the Title of the file, and the Originality Score/Report , as well as the option for you to download the file or remove the file.

Step 5: Clicking on the score under Originality Score/Report will display various information Turnitin has about the paper.

· The student's name, the word count of the paper, the title, where Turnitin searched to find matches, and when the paper was submitted will appear at the top.

· The locations (web sites, paper databases, etc.) where Turnitin found the most matches are in the center.

· Exact matches from the internet, Turnitin database, and student paper database will be color-coordinated at the bottom of the screen.

Step 6: Hit the button to close the Turnitin Assignments window.

**Note: From the Turnitin Instructor's Manual: "Papers submitted to Turnitin are compared against billions of Internet documents, an archived copy of the Internet, our local databases of submitted student papers, and the ProQuest commercial database. Any matching text we find is detailed in an Originality Report sent to your assignment inbox. You can find the manual here: http://www.turnitin.com/static/training _ support/tii _ instructor _ guide.pdf