Faculty turnitin

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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