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• Log in to Canvas and access your course.
• Navigate to the Turnitin assignment you are submitting to and click on the assignment link.
• Click Upload Submission button .
• You can choose from three different submission options; Upload Submission (upload file), Text Input (submit text) and Cloud Submission (attach from One Drive).
• To upload a file, click Upload Submission tab .
• Enter Submission Title .
• Click Choose File to upload file.
• The uploaded file will show next to the Choose File
• If you have attached the wrong file, click on the Choose File button again to choose a different file.
• Click Upload and Review .
• The next screen will show Uploading, indicating file upload is in progress.
• Once the file has uploaded, click Preview Submission to check your submission.
• If you need to cancel and resubmit, click on Cancel Submission .
• When you are ready to submit, click Submit to Turnitin .
• Submission Complete message will appear.
• The next screen will show your paper title , the date of submission, and the icons for downloading the paper and downloading digital receipt .
• Make sure you save a copy of the digital receipt for your records by clicking on the horizontal bars icon.
• You can also access the receipt by going to your submission under the Paper Title .
• Click the download button .
• Click Digital Receipt .
• The digital receipt is an important document that shows details of your submission, such as, file name, submission date and submission ID.

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Creating a Turnitin assignment

Only alpha-numeric characters should be used when creating an assignment title. We do not support special characters and punctuation.

Select whether the assignment will require Originality Reports for submissions or whether any file type can be uploaded. The default option is to  Allow only file types that Turnitin can check for similarity .

For assignments that do not require Originality Reports instructors can select Allow any file type which allows instructors to leave feedback on every file type.

Choose where files will be submitted using the Submit Papers To option.

If the repository options are enabled for an instructor by the administrator, two or four options will appear within the Submit papers to dropdown list . Select from the dropdown list where you would like papers to be submitted to. The settings provide you with the ability to select whether papers are stored in a Turnitin standard paper repository, your institution's paper repository, the student's choice of paper repository, or no repository at all.

The benefit of submitting papers to the standard paper repository is that student papers submitted to the assignment are checked against other institutions' student submissions. However, by selecting to submit papers to the institution's paper repository, this means that the assignment will only be checked against other students' submissions within the institution. If you select no repository , your students' papers will not be stored in the Turnitin standard paper repository or the institution's paper repository, therefore meaning that the papers will not be checked for collusion between students of the same or different institutions.

• Modify any other assignment options.

Attach a rubric to the assignment

If you would like to use a rubric to grade the papers submitted to the assignment you may use the rubric list drop down menu to select a previously created or imported rubric or you can launch the rubric manager by clicking on the Launch Rubric Manager  link and create a new rubric to attach to the assignment.

Enable e-rater® grammar check?

This feature of assignment creation provides instructors with the option to enable the e-rater grammar and spelling check for all submissions to the assignment. When enabled student submissions receive detailed grammar feedback in GradeMark automatically through the e-rater technology. Select yes to enable the e-rater  engine for the assignment. If this assignment option is not available then the e-rater   grammar check is disabled for the account. Contact the Turnitin account administrator to enable the e-rater grammar check for the account.

(Optional) Select the ETS handbook level from the drop down menu. The ETS handbooks provide students with in depth information about the grammar errors the  e-rater technology finds in their paper.

Select the dictionary used for the spelling check.

The Categories enabled by default option allows instructors to choose which categories of feedback are enabled when viewing assignment submissions in GradeMark. The default is to show the feedback for every category.

Changing Advanced Assignment Option Defaults

If any changes have been made to the advanced assignment options, an additional option will be available at the bottom of the options panel. The instructor is asked Would you like to save these options as your defaults for future assignments? Select yes to save these advanced assignment options as the default for all future assignments created within this course. These default advanced assignment options will not apply to new assignments created in any other course on the Blackboard  Learning System, but will be applied to all assignments created in the current course by any instructor.

The default settings can be changed at any time when creating a new assignment or updating an existing assignment. 

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How to submit a turnitin assignment.

Turnitin is a service that compare students submitted work with global repositories, internet sources, journals and publications to assess its authenticity. You can easily distinguish a Turnitin assignment from other assignments in your eClass course by the Turnitin icon that appears to the left of the assignment title.

Take a look at the Turnitin Feedback Studio demo to become familiar with the interface.  

Before submitting your Turnitin assignments, it is important that you ensure your computer meet the system requirements :

File types and Word Processors

To successfully submit a Turnitin assignment, here is an overview of the following requirements:

1. Assignment file(s) must contain more than 20 words. A scanned file of a picture of text is not accepted.

2. The file size has to be less than 40MB.

3. Maximum of 400 pages for an assignment submission.

4. No spaces between every letter (e.g. l i k e t h i s)

Detailed information on word processors and filetypes accepted by Turnitin is available at: https://help.turnitin.com/feedback-studio/turnitin-website/student/submitting-a-paper/file-requirements.htm

Note the exceptions for each of the software to avoid problems when preparing your assignments.

Submitting Your Assignment

1. Click the  Turnitin assignment title on your eClass course home page.

2. Under the My Submissions tab, click the Submit Paper icon

3. You may be given the option by your instructor to choose the submission type as File Upload or Text Submission . If available, click the Submission Type dropdown list and select the appropriate option.

4. Enter the title of your submission in the Submission Title field.

5. File Submission:

• Drag your assignment file to the File to Submit window
• Click the checkbox to accept responsibility for the assignment file you are uploading.

• Click Close in the upper right corner to return to the My Submission page.  

6. Text Submission:

• Click the Submit Paper icon

• For the Text to submit field: copy and paste your response
• Click the checkbox, accepting responsibility for the assignment you are uploading.

• Click Close in the upper right corner to return to the My Submission page.

Viewing Turnitin Reports

The Similarity report reviews matches between your submission and the databases indexed by Turnitin. Depending on the options enabled by your instructor, you might be able to review the information generated.

1. Click the Turnitin assignment title on your eClass course home page.

2. Click the My Submissions tab located in the top row.

3. Under the Similarity column, click on score to view the report generated.

Viewing Grade

Your instructor can choose to enter your mark and add comments to your assignment directly within Turnitin. To view this information, follow the instructions below.  

3. Your grade will appear under the Grade column.

4. Click on the grade or the similarity report to view feedback from your instructor.

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When you submit a text-based assignment in Blackboard, it goes into Turnitin, which is a program that compares the text in your assignment with a database of online sources, textbooks, journal articles and other student assignments.

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How Turnitin works

Turnitin produces an Originality Report which highlights the text in your assignment that matches or is similar to another source, and links to the original source. The report also includes a Similarity Index which is calculated as the number of highlighted words divided by the total number of words in your assignment.

Be aware that Curtin does not define a ‘safe’ level for the Similarity Index, nor is there a level that signals that plagiarism has occurred. Turnitin does not distinguish between ‘innocent matches’ and those that may be considered plagiarism. For example, if a unit coordinator sets a question that all students must answer, likely that question text will match in all of the assignment submissions for that unit. This would be considered an innocent match.

How to use Turnitin to help avoid plagiarism

Downloading or printing your turnitin originality report.

This video covers how to access the Originality Report, what the Similarity Index is, and how the Originality Report is used to identify plagiarism.

What to do about those highlighted bits

This video covers reviewing your matches and deciding what action to take, and how to plan your work to prevent plagiarism.

Understanding Turnitin’s report

More about Turnitin

Curtin policy requires all text based assignments to be submitted to Turnitin. A copy of all work submitted to Turnitin will be retained on Turnitin’s database for future text matching. This process has been tested in the courts and found to be in compliance with copyright, privacy and data protection laws.

The effectiveness of Turnitin depends on its ability to store copies of all documents submitted to it. This has the benefit of protecting your rights and intellectual property in the future. Under exceptional circumstances, such as when the work is commercially sensitive, you can request that a paper be removed from the database. Undergraduate work would not be expected to fall into this category under normal circumstances. If you believe that exceptional circumstances apply in your situation, make a formal request explaining your reasons to your unit coordinator.

The only people able to view the copy of your assignment submitted to the Turnitin database, or the associated originality report, are the teaching team associated with that unit of study (such as unit coordinator, tutors and markers). Turnitin’s employees are not able to view your assignment.

The person marking your submitted work will review the originality report generated by the Turnitin service. The report highlights text in your submitted work that matches content in Turnitin’s databases. The marker will review each highlighted passage of text to determine if the passage has been poorly paraphrased or if it has been directly copied from another source, and whether this indicates plagiarism.

The report also includes an index (the Similarity Index) calculated as the number of highlighted words divided by the total number of words in your assignment. A high Similarity Index is not automatically interpreted by the marker as plagiarism, and Curtin does not define any minimum or maximum thresholds for the index score. This means that there is no ‘safe’ score nor is there a score that, if exceeded, indicates that plagiarism has occurred.

The detection of plagiarism is a matter of academic judgement by the marker, allowing and requiring them to take into consideration the type of match highlighted, the extent of matching and the use in-text citations and references.

Try troubleshooting the problem using the guide on the Turnitin website . This guide covers:

• Accepted file types and sizes
• Viewing a rubric or grading form before submission
• How to submit a paper by uploading a file or cutting and pasting text
• Viewing submitted files
• Downloading Submitted Papers and Digital Receipts
• Resubmitting a paper

If you’re still having difficulty submitting an assignment through Turnitin, contact your unit coordinator in case there are problems with the way the assignment submission link has been set up.

The Turnitin webpages include some graphics to guide you through the submission process and for various functions associated with viewing the originality report and accessing the digital receipt. Normally these visual elements have hidden text behind them to allow screen readers to function.

If you’re using a screen reader, you may find that the Turnitin Document Viewer is not fully compatible with your software. The Document Viewer is the default view for the Originality Report. It appears in a separate browser window that is launched when you access your submission from the Turnitin Assignment Inbox. The ‘text-only’ view of the Originality Report is generally more compatible with screen reader technologies.

To access the ‘text-only’ view follow these steps:

• In your Blackboard unit, navigate to the assignment submission page and select the link labelled View/Complete to show the Turnitin page.
• The Turnitin page has two tabs. Make sure the Assignment Inbox tab is active (this is selected by default). For the appropriate assignment in the list, select the View button.
• Select the Text-Only Report link at the bottom of the page.

From the preferences link, the text-only report provides the following options that may improve accessibility:

• Colour code matches: 1) Yes or 2) No.
• Default mode 1) show highest matches together 2) show matches one at a time 3) quickview (classic) report.

auto-navigation 1) jump to next match 2) scroll to next match. Turnitin remembers the last view used to access the originality report, so when you open another report, the view used last will be displayed. This way, you can set the default to be Document Viewer or Text Only.

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Turnitin is an originality-checking and plagiarism-prevention service that checks writing for citation mistakes or inappropriate copying. Turnitin compares submitted papers to a massive database of student work, websites, books, and articles. Turnitin has several key features to meet your writing assignment needs: 

• Develops independent learners and confident writers : Turnitin helps students improve their academic writing and research skills.
• Compares against content collections:  Turnitin has a massive database that covers writing across the internet, scholarly articles, student papers, and more.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do i turn on turnitin for an assignment in canvas.

• From within the Assignments tool in your course, create new assignment by clicking the  + Assignment  button.
• Set the assignment’s  Submission Type  to  Online , then choose the appropriate Online Entry Options for the assignment. Select  File Uploads  for documents being uploaded by students.
• Scroll down to the  Plagiarism Review  selection field. Select  Turnitin  from the dropdown menu.
• A number of Turnitin-specific options will be displayed with default settings. It is recommended to leave these default settings as they are unless specific assignment needs require you to do otherwise.
• Use the  Store submissions in  dropdown menu to change whether or not your students’ submissions will be stored in the  Standard Paper Repository . This is the collection of documents against which submissions are compared to create an Originality Report.
• Check the  Compare submissions against  options to modify the types of documents against which your students’ submissions are compared.
• Check specific exclusions for the  Similarity Reports  generated by Turnitin.
• Check  Save as default settings  to use your custom settings on future Turnitin assignments.
• Use the  Show originality report to students  dropdown menu to select when students can see Similarity Reports for their assignments.

5. Once students have submitted assignments to Canvas, you can view similarity reports in the  SpeedGrader  application. Click on the assignment you wish to grade, then click on  SpeedGrader  in the right-hand column.

Is Turnitin a plagiarism detection tool?

No . Turnitin is software that identifies the matched material by checking the electronically submitted documents against its database of academic publications, internet, and previously submitted documents. Turnitin provides a “similarity index,” which does not mean plagiarism.

Can papers be submitted in languages other than English?

Yes. Turnitin's search engine gathers content from websites based on the ISO-8559-1 character set (Latin script). Therefore, you may submit papers composed in Latin script regardless of language. Please note that the Turnitin system does not translate documents to detect matching text.

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Setting up your Turnitin classes is easy when you know how. In just four quick steps, learn more about Turnitin's class management tools and how to get your students started. At the end of this tutorial, you can put these simple steps into practice.

1. Create Your Password

You'll need your email address and last name to create your Turnitin account password and set your security information; this information can be found in your welcome email. You can then log into Turnitin and begin customizing your account.

2. Create a Class

The creation of a class is the first step towards using the Turnitin services available to your institution. A Turnitin class groups assignments, helping you to organize student submissions. Once your classes have been created, you can start creating assignments.

• Click the All Classes tab from any Turnitin page to direct you to the homepage
• Click the green Add Class button
• From the Create a new class page, select the class type, and complete the fields marked with an asterisk
• Select the class end date
• Click Submit to add your class to Turnitin
• Once your class has been created, you will be provided with the Class ID and enrollment password, which will allow your students self enroll

3. Create an Assignment

Once your class is ready, it's time to set up your first assignment. A Turnitin assignment forms the basis of accepting student submissions. Once your assignments are set up, you start adding students to your class.

• Click the relevant class name
• From your class, click the green Add Assignment button
• Enter an assignment title
• Opt to only allow students to submit file types that generate Originality Reports or to allow any file type
• Next, select your assignment's start date, end date, and post date; the assignment post date is the date from which your students can view your feedback
• To customize your assignment further, click the optional settings button to reveal an array of options; each option will be accompanied with contextual help icons
• Click Submit to add your assignment to your Turnitin class

4. Add Students

There are three routes available for adding students. You may find it convenient to add students one by one, or add a large portion of students at once by uploading a list. Alternatively, why not allow your students to enroll themselves at their own pace?

Add Students One by One

You may prefer to use this method when adding fewer than ten students.

• Click Home from any Turnitin page to direct you to the homepage
• From the Class homepage, click the Students tab at the top of the page
• Click the Add Student button to the right
• Enter the student's first name, last name, and email address
• Click Submit to add the student

Upload a List of Students

For adding ten students or more, you may find it quicker and easier to upload a list.

• In a Word™ or plain text file, each student should be written as: first name, last name, email address format with one student per line. In Excel™, separate the first name, last name, and email address into different cells in a column.
• From the student list, click the Upload List button
• Click the Choose file button and browse for the plain text, Word™, or Excel™ file that you wish to upload
• Once the file has uploaded, click the Submit button to upload
• Check the student details displayed on screen, then click yes, submit to add the students, or no, go back to amend the file

Allow Students to Self-Enroll

Allowing students to self-enroll can save you time.

• Make a note of the seven-digit Class ID for the class you would like your students to join
• Next, select the cog icon under Edit
• From the Edit Class page, make a note of the enrollment password
• Pass the Class ID and enrollment password to your students
• Ensure this information is kept safe at all times

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To submit assignments to Turnitin, follow the steps outlined on this help page from UIS. If you have further questions about using Turnitin or run into problems, please contact UIS at 202-687-4949 or [email protected]. 

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