Kabir Khan M.Phil-LIM Department of Library and Information Management Superior University, Lahore

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Introduction to Turnitin
Presented by:
Kabir Khan
M.Phil-LIM
Presented To:
Dr. Ijaz Miraj
Department of Library and Information Management
Superior University, Lahore

2. Content
 Overview
 Types of Assignment
 Originality Check
 Create a User Profile
 Create a Class and Assignment
 Instructor/Students submit work
 Similarity Report
 Grade Mark (Online grading)
 Peer Mark (Peer review)

3. Turnitin Overview
Turnitin is a commercial, Internet-based plagiarism detection
service launched in 1997. Universities and high schools
typically buy licenses to use the software as a service
website, which checks submitted documents against its
database and the content of other websites with the aim of
identifying plagiarism.
www.turnitin.com
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4. • Paper assignment isthebaseassignmentforallotherassignmentstypes.Usedto
obtainanOriginalityReport
• PeerMark assignment: allowsstudentstoreviewtheirpeers'papersbasedonscaleand
freeresponsequestionsselectedbytheinstructor.
• Revision Assignment allowsstudentstosubmitmultipledraftswithout
overwritingthepreviousdrafts/submissions
• Reflection Assignment isdesignedasalearningjournalwherestudentswriteabout
whattheylearnedfromthewritingprocessaswellasofferfeedbackontheassignmenttheyworkedon.
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Types of “Assignments”

5. It determines the congruence of text to sources
in:
•Publicly accessible Internet sources
•Every document already submitted to Turnitin*
•Assignments from within the class
Originality Check
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* Lecturers can opt out from Turnitin storing papers. Only the
lecturer can access the submitted paper.

6. Go to www.turnitin.com and start by clicking
Create Account.
Create a user profile
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7. To get the account ID and a
password for your college, log a
call with ITD Service Desk http://
inside/itdservicedesk/ defau
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8. Create a class and assignment
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9. Cont….
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10. Add rubrics, exclude
bibliographic/quoted
materials/small matches,
allow students to see
originality report, allow
submissions after due
date and search options
Create a class and assignment
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11. Instructors/students submit
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The instructor submits

12. Cont….
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Instructor registers students, they submit
Turnitin will automatically send the student an email with a
provisional password. Students log in and submit their work.
They get added to your class if they already have an account.

13. Cont….
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Student create their account and submit
Customise and distribute the “Student Turnitin Guide”
with your class ID and enrolment password:
http://www.ul.ie/ctl/turnitin-plagiarism-prevention-
software

14. A greyed-out report icon indicates that the report has not yet been
generated. Please wait a few moments and click your browser’s
refresh button (large reports may take up to 24hh to process)
Similarity Report
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15. Cont…
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16. Grademark
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You can add comments within the body of the paper, point out
grammar and punctuation mistakes, evaluate the paper against
your own rubrics or predefined ones, etc.
Complete instructions available Chapter 4 of Instructor
Handout http://www.ul.ie/ctl/turnitin-plagiarism-
prevention-software

17. Peermark
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Allows students to read, review, and evaluate one or many papers
submitted by their classmates. Instructors can choose whether the
reviews are anonymous or attributed, decide if students should be
excluded from reviews, pair students, and assign students specific
papers to review.

18. Cont….
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Create new assignment as in slide 13, and select PeerMark Assignment (can only
be created if a class has at least one paper assignment created)
Note: the due date of the base assignment must come before the start date and
time of the PeerMark assignment. If anonymity in the review is desired, student
submissions should not contain the name of the author in the text or at the top of
the paper
Bydefault,reviewsareanonymousandonlythosestudentwhosubmit
canreview,butyou canchangeitin“Showmoreoptions”
Thestartdateisthedatestudentscanbeginreadingpapersandwriting
reviews.Theduedatepreventsstudentsfromwritingreviewsafterthis
date.Thepostdateisthedatestudentswillhaveaccesstoreviewswritten
bytheirclassmates

19. In Step 2, the instructor determines how many papers will be distributed to the
students in the course. By default, PeerMark will automatically distribute papers of
students.
Cont….
 Click Save & Continue or click on the Show more distribution
options link to exclude student papers from distribution or specify
which student papers a student(s) will have to review.
 Note: you need to have students registered as seen in slide 19
 In Step 3, add questions for students to answer (your own or from Sample
Library)
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20. After the start date of the PeerMark assignment students may begin writing peer
reviews. To view which papers students have reviewed click on the View link next to
the PeerMark assignment.
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Instructors can then view an individual
student’s reviews by clicking on the Show
details link to the right of the students name.
The instructor can write a review to supplement those that students will receive
from their peers. An instructor may also comment on the paper they are reviewing.
A comment is equivalent to the notes that an instructor may write in the margins of
a paper
Instructors may
grade the reviews
written by the
students

21. Cont….
Instructors may view a paper’s peer reviews within the
document viewer once a reviewer submits a PeerMark
review. To view a paper in the document viewer click on
the paper’s title within the assignment inbox for the paper
assignment the peer review is based on.
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22. Cont….
To view the PeerMark questions and answers click on ? icon.
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To view a list of all the comments left on the paper click on the mark list icon.
To grade a reviewer click on the reviewer’s name, or to edit the grade click on
the grade next to the reviewer’s name.