Using Turnitin.com, Part 2:
Submitting Papers
(Text-Only Version)

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Welcome to Part 2 of our presentation on Turnitin.

This part will cover submitting papers to Turnitin for checking. It will also cover how to read Originality Reports.For this part of the presentation to work, you should have gone through the steps described in Part 1.

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Once you have successfully registered with Turnitin and created a profile, log in with your e-mail address and the personal password you created.

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Here is your instructor homepage. It shows that you are associated with UMUC. It lists the class you created with the startup wizard in Part 1 of the presentation. Here is where you would add a new class. For this presentation, click on your class title to locate the assignment you created with the wizard in Part 1.

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Note the important features on this page. It lists the assignments you have created for this class. It has an inbox where submitted papers are stored. And there is a submit button for submitting papers to Turnitin. Within your classroom, you can create new assignments. For this presentation, click on Submit to begin loading papers into Turnitin.

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Fill in the blanks for your students' papers. If you are submitting your students' papers yourself, Turnitin will have no record of your students' names and e-mail addresses, so leave the author as non-enrolled student. This means that the student is not enrolled with Turnitin.

Create an alias first name and last name. In my example I simply went through my roll alphabetically and named my students Student One, Student Two, Student Three. You can create any alias you like.

Give each paper a title. You can use the titles that the students submit.

Search your computer for the file you want to upload by clicking Browse and then click Submit.

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Turnitin asks if you are sure this is the paper you want to submit. Click yes, submit if it is correct or no, go back if it is not.

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Turnitin assigns each paper a number.

Click the inbox icon to return to your assignment area and submit another paper.

Click submit again if the paper did not load correctly and you do not see it in this digital receipt.

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Once Turnitin has checked the paper against its database and determined the level of textual match, you can check to see if the Originality Report is ready for you to view. The report icon will be colored rather than grayed out.

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Now let's look at how you can have your students submit their own papers to Turnitin. Many UMUC faculty with Turnitin accounts have students submit their own papers. It saves you time and shares the work with the students.

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If you want students to load their own papers in Turnitin, let them know they need to go to the Turnitin home page and setup as New Users.

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They will then use the pull down menu to select user type, Student.

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Remember that you received a Turnitin class ID and you created an enrollment password when you set up your class. Provide this information to your students so they can join your class. Your students will need to work through the prompts to create a Turnitin profile.

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Students enter the class ID you give them, and the enrollment password you created.

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The student sees that he has successfully joined your class, and continues to set up a profile with his e-mail address and name.

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The student creates his own password for logging in to Turnitin. The student will work through a series of prompts much like you saw in Part 1 of the presentation. When the student is done, he is taken to his home page, which lists your class. The student clicks the name of your class to go to your list of assignments.

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Next, the student sees your list of assignments and the submit icon. The student is ready to submit a paper to your class for this assignment!

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Let's move now to viewing Originality Reports. Just log in to your class, select the assignment, and click on the inbox folder.

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In the Report column, click on the report icon for the paper you want to review.

Here is the scale for Turnitin's color coding:

Red = 75% - 100% match

Orange = 50% - 74% match

Yellow = 25% - 49% match

Green = 0% - 24% match

Blue = less than 20 matching words

Click on the Report icon to view the Originality Report.

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Now let's take a look at a sample Originality Report.

There are several options for how the Originality Report is displayed. Here is how it looks with the default setting. It is set to show matches one at a time.

The top of the page lists the Originality Index as 69%. And the scale for color coding is orange for the paper as a whole.

69% of the text in the student's paper matches text stored in the Turnitin database!

You can change the default setting by using the drop down menu to select Show Highest Matches Together. This view ranks the matching sources from greatest degree of match to lower degrees of match. This can save you time since you are probably most interested in identifying the highest degrees of match.

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For this paper there is a list of matches from several different sources. In this screen shot you see the URLs for these sources, that is, the ones with the most matching text. Click on the number next to the URL to jump to the section of the student’s paper with the matching text.

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Here you see a section of the student’s paper marked number 1. It matches text that can be found in URL number 1 in your list.

Here you see URL number 2. Click on the number next to the URL to jump to the section of the student’s paper with the matching text.

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Here you see the section of the student’s paper marked number 2. It matches text that can be found in URL number 2 in your list. And so on. Work through the list of URLs to check each match.

Remember that your student’s paper may match material from the free Web, or materials from papers already stored in the Turnitin database. If you click a URL or a section of colored text in your student’s paper, a couple of different things may happen. On the one hand, you may be taken to a page on the free Web that has matching text Compare your student’s paper with this matching source on the free Web. Or, your student’s paper may match a paper previously submitted to Turnitin.

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Here you are given a message about contacting the source of the match.

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Remember, UMUC respects the privacy of its students. If you are contacted by another instructor at UMUC or another institution to view your student's paper, please contact the appropriate UMUC administrator for further information on how to proceed.

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This concludes our presentation on Turnitin. If you have any questions about using Turnitin, please contact Information and Library Services at library@umuc.edu.

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