2. Contents
• Important changes
• Staff interphase through StudyNet
• Student interphase through StudyNet
• Turnitin interphase
• Interpreting Reports
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3. Important Changes
• Students can submit to Turnitin ONLY if the
module leader has opted to switch it on
• Students no longer has direct access to
www.submit.ac.uk
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4. Steps to follow: Module Leader
• Guide is available at LTI website
Students must not
have direct access to
Turnitin as this may
conflict with
submissions via
StudyNet
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5. Set up a new assignment
Ensure that the radio button for
‘Allow Turnitin Submissions’ is
highlighted as ‘Yes’
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6. What would the students see?
Staff will not be able to view Turnitin
submissions, nor will they be saved in the
assignment database.
The only submission available to staff is
ones that are saved using ‘Submit
assignment
Students are be able to submit a second
draft after 24 hours of first submission.
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7. Next steps for Staff
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Staff can see which students have
been submitting to TurnItIn
Clicking on the green
button on the following
page will expand to show
the title of the submission
8. Next steps for Staff
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Allow plenty of time to download
the assignments
Staff can then open
www.submit.ac.uk
9. Turnitin Interphase cont.
Click on your module to upload the
zip file of all assignments
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If your assignment is not listed, click on ‘ADD ASSIGNMENT’ and follow through the steps to
add the assignment title, date etc.
IMPORTANT: Once you input the basic details, click on ‘Optional settings’ to edit other
details such as Exclude bibliography, quoted materials, and small matches.
12. Interpreting Reports
• Guides available on LTI website
• Video Link http://vimeo.com/29333543#embed
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Editor's Notes
If you are new to Turnitin – it is a text matching or plagiarism detection software. The main change is that students no longer has direct access to Turnitin and it is upto the module leader to set up or activate turnitin feature on StudyNet when setting up the assignment.
As a module leader, when you are creating an assignment (steps shown on screen), ensure you click on activate Turnitin for students. Please note, with the process changes, students must no have direct access to the software as this may conflict with submission via StudyNet.
When select Set up a new assignment, once you have filled the assignment title, hand-in dates/times, by default yes radio button is selected to allow turnitin submission.
When the assignment link is live on StudyNet site, the students get an additional link ‘Submit draft to Turnitin’ . Student submissions to this link will not be saved in the repository. Students get 2 chances to submit their draft versions before final submission the usual way. It is advised to leave 24 hour gap after the first submission allowing the software time to create similarity indexes. Once the student uses both chances to upload drafts to make any amendments before final submission, they will get a notification saying ‘no further draft Turnitin submissions permitted for this assignment’.
When students hit the refresh page button they will see the similarity index appear if the report is available. Depending on the file size, allocate about 1 hours for the index to appear.
As tutors, if you want to see how many students have taken up the opportunity to submit draft submissions, you can click on Turnitin submissions which will give you a list of users. At this stage, you cannot see the originality report which I will expand in my next slide.
Once the deadline has passed, on StudyNet, you now have the option to Download all submissions as a Zip file. If you have Assignment File Downloader software downloaded, you can choose to download the assignments through that. Depending on the number of assignments, please allow time for
Your assignment should be listed on the Active Classes list so you only need to follow:
Step 1: click on the assignment link
Requirements for zip file upload:
Can contain a max of 1000 papers
The zip file must be less than 200 MB
Individual files must be less than 20 MB each
Individual files must have at least 20 words of text
The maximum paper length for individual files is 400 pages each
File types allowed: Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, WordPerfect, PostScript, PDF, HTML, RTF, OpenOffice (ODT), Hangul (HWP), Google Docs, and plain text
Some key points to mention about interpreting reports:
A high similarity match does not necessarily mean plagiarism or copying. It could be because:
A low match does not necessarily mean that cheating has not occurred.
There is an overuse of direct quotations within the work
Common phrases or series of words are being used that are the same
Marking grids attached to the final documents as requested