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Faculty Development Session:Turnitin
Susan Bloom, MLIS
What is turnitin?
Setting up an account
Creating a class
Enrolling students
Generating assignments
Using the software
Bells and whistles
Lesson Objectives
Helps detect plagiarism
Allows for better reviewing and
grading
Tracks student progress
Turnitin
Turnitin helps to ensure originality in student
writing by comparing papers with over 150 million
assignments and billions of web pages. It tells the
professor the percentage of the student’s
assignment that was found in these other papers
and can also show the original work where the lifted
section was found. The professor always has final
say over the analysis of a paper.
Detecting Plagiarism
Setting up an account
Click on “Create an account”
Choose “instructor”
Add the account information you received in the confirmation email here
Create a new password here
If the above did not work:
Choose reset your password, even if you are sure you did not set up
a password
Log in
Log in
Use the log in information you created here
Everyone should now set up an account
Practical
Instructor Homepage
Adding a class
Choose “add a class”
Creating a class (continued)
There are two class types, the standard class and the master class. Only choose master class if you will be subdividing the class with TAs.
Once a class expires, instructors cannot make changes within the class unless it is reactivated!
The class name and password can be anything the instructor chooses, try and create passwords your students will remember, they will need to input it in order to join the class on the program
Students may self-enroll or instructors may create accounts for them. It is advised that students self-enroll.
Students must have the unique class name and case-sensitive password before they can join a class.
Students will receive an enrollment email after they have completed the set-up process.
Enrolling Students
Creating assignments
Click on the class name
Creating assignments (continued)
Choose “New Assignment”
Creating assignments (continued)
If you are unsure what something means, hover over the question mark
Options
Assignment options
Creating assignments (continued)
Grading papersTells the professor how many students are in the class and how many have completed the assignment
Choose “view”
Grading papers (continued)
Student’s name
Assignment Name
Student’s paper title
Basic similarity profile
Original submission file, click to download the file
Submission date
Tells you if student has seen your response
Click here to begin grading assignment
Grading Papers (continued)
Choose one of these options
Originality Report
Click on a source to get more information about the match
Words in color are exact matches, the color and number will correspond to
the source
Click here to see the full text of the source
Originality Report (continued)
Originality Report (continued)
Student papers will display matched words only, you cannot see the full text of the work due to copyright
issues
Enter grade for paper here
Bells &
Whistles
Options
GradeMark
Grade Book
PeerMark
Rubrics Class Calendars
Rubrics
This feature allows professors to
grade work and make comments digitally.
These comments can be made available
for students to see or not at your
discretion.
GradeMark
GradeMarkComments in purple are auto-generated
by the system
Comments in blue are
either chosen
from this repository
or generated
by the professor
Written by
turnitin
Add custom comments here
Managing the Grade book
Managing the Grade book (continued)
Assignments already added to the system will automatically appear
Add other entries (such as participation or
homework) by clicking here
Click here for grade book preferences
Managing the Grade book (continued)
Managing the Grade Book (continued)
Click here to grade an individual assignment Click here to see more
information about this page
Export grade book to an Excel spreadsheet
Managing the Grade Book (continued)
Enter grades
Managing the Grade Book (continued)
Managing the Grade Book (continued)
Enter grades by assignment
Click here to see graphs of an individual student’s
performance
Managing the Grade Book (continued)
Managing the Grade Book (continued)
The system allows for easy writing
workshops. Instructors may assign one student a
paper from another student (may be anonymous)
to review and comment on. Professors can also
post questions to answer and choose whether or
not students see each others comments.
PeerMark
Libraries
Rubric Manager
Rubric Manager (continued)
Rubric Manager (continued)
Rubric Manager (continued)
Rubric Manager (continued)
Assign each criterion a percentage of the total
grade
Assign each criterion a
specific point value Remove numerical
grades and use a rubric for
commentary only
Don’t forget to save!
Using a rubric
Class Calendar
Previously created
assignment due dates will automatically
appear
Click on a date to
add to the calendar
Manual calendar entry
Discussion boards
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