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Juliet Stoltenkamp, 19 Jan 2012
Turnitin is an internet based plagiarism detection software.
Educational institutions submit essays and written
assignments to the Turnitin website, which checks the
documents for plagiarism.
Submissions are checked through:
•A current and extensive internet publications
database
•Billions of commercial pages from books, newspapers,
and journals
•Millions of student papers in Turnitin’s repository
(added on for intellectual property)
UWC students will submit their written assignments to
Turnitin, as a deterrent to plagiarism via the web
Turnitin checks for possible plagiarism by comparing
submitted papers to several databases. It scans its own
database(s), and also has licensing agreements with
large academic proprietary databases.
Web- based gateway to Tii
Lecturers can create
assignments and view
class lists with student
numbers with their
originality reports
Students can log in and
submit assignments and
get originality reports.
One gateway: Link to Tii
server
Tii used as a tool to promote
creative writing.
Students submit and get
originality reports.
Students
peruse/navigate report;
discuss reports and
identify errors with
lecturer/tutor
Students rework
documents and resubmit
Process continues till
required level is achieved
Training currently undergoing for both lecturers and
students
Bookings are made through our ICT training team (via
lecturer)
Tii is being used as a deterrent to plagiarism; not as the
benchmark for the affect/aftermath of plagiarism
Lecturer training focuses on using the tool to promote
creative writing and enhance writing practices within UWC.
‘Just-in-time training’: Manuals (lecturer and student) which
can be directly accessed from
http://turnitin.uwc.ac.za/student
Submitted documents- database search:
◦ Current and extensively archived copy of the publicly
accessible internet publications
◦ Commercial pages from books, newspapers, and journals
◦ Millions of student papers already submitted to Turnitin
◦ Massive proprietary database of all Turnitin (Tii)
university repositories
◦ Following, a report is generated.
Report contents: Paper ID > unique
identification for each submission> security
Authors name Class in which
assignment was submitted (created by your lecturer)
Similarity index > Actual matches found on document
Overview of similar matches >
Source report Shows you
similarity matches in descending order
Click on link to see actual source.
Source number enables easy navigation- i.e. to specific match (source) found
Colour differentiation – easy navigation
Source report Text matches within
submitted doc Words –no matches
are shown in grey Matches shown in a
specific color Even misquoted texts
appear as matches within the similarity index.
Assignment inbox Shows you the reports of
the submitted assignments Color coded
Green <25% Yellow25%> &<50% Orange 50%<&<75% Red>75%
Using Tii
Enter your password received from turnitin helpdesk if you are the first time user.
Enter your email address
Change your password to something you’ll remember
Click on the class name
HOW TO SUBMIT A PAPER
This page you can see the due date for the assignment. Click on submit/resubmit
Click drop down arrow to select the submission method
Enter submission title
Search for your file that you want to upload.e.g. from your flash drive, hard drive depending where you’ve saved it
Then Click on Upload
This is the preview of
what you are submitting if incorrect you can click on “Return to
upload page”
Then click on submit if you’re certain that
the document is correct.
If you see this page you are done(YOU WILL
RECEIVE EMAIL AS WELL)
Click on the class
How to Read the Originality Report
Click here
Click here to view the report
New Originality reportYou see as the document was submitted with all the
formatting, charts etc
To see which source a highlighted text matches look for the source that has the same number and color indicator as
highlight.
If would like to see the text from the source in order to compare with student text simple click on highlighted text and source comparison window will appear.
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