What TurnItIn can do for you: |
How do I start using TurnItIn? |
Getting help on using TurnItIn |
TurnItIn's website provides many good informational resources for promoting academic integrity and preventing plagiarism. Click here to go to TurnItIn's directory of those resources.
Checking
papers for plagiarism with TurnItIn
Faculty members or students submit students' papers (or excerpts from students’
papers) to the TurnItIn.com website. TurnItIn runs the papers through databases
and a general Internet search and gives back to the faculty member a hyperlinked
copy of the text, indicating where passages from the paper (if any) came from
the Internet or the TurnItIn database.
Click here to view a sample TurnItIn report. More information on using the plagiarism detection component of TurnItIn can be found in the first two chapters of the TurnItIn instructor guide.
In addition, you can find answers to some general questions you may have at TLTR's questions and answers about TurnItIn's plagiarism detection page.
To begin using TurnItIn with your classes…
Faculty who have previously used TurnItIn at Truman already have
accounts and should simply login using the box in the upper-right corner of
the TurnItIn
homepage.
New users should click on the "create a new user profile" link on the Turnitin.com homepage. Then follow the on-screen directions. After you log in to your new account and click on the “join account” button, enter Truman's account ID and Truman's "account join" password. Truman's account ID and "account join" password were e-mailed to faculty; if you do not still have that e-mail, contact Chad Mohler at chmohler@truman.edu, and he'll be sure to get the ID and password to you. (Note: Truman’s “account join” password is different from your own password for TurnItIn, which you can make anything 6-12 characters long that you want.)
If you are having students submit their papers themselves…
suggest to them that they follow the step-by-step tutorial found at http://www.turnitin.com/static/training_support/tii_student_guide.pdf.
They will need from you the class’s enrollment password (which you establish
when you first set up the class) and the class’s ID (which is the number
next to the class on the “my classes” page that appears when you
first log in to TurnItIn).
A suggestion from
TLTR…
As you begin using
TurnItIn in your classes, we on the TLTR strongly encourage you to make mention
of it in your syllabi and to continue discussing with your students the importance
of academic honesty and the differences between academically honest and academically
dishonest work. We hope that the TurnItIn trial serves as a stimulus for continued
campus discussion of academic integrity and what we as a community can do to
promote it.
If you need help at any time after
you have set up your account and log in, simply click on the “Help!”
button at the top of every screen. A help page will open with lots of good info
for you to consult. By clicking on the “helpdesk” button on the
help page, you can also contact TurnItIn’s support staff with questions
you may have.
A good general overview of TurnItIn can be found in TurnItIn's
instructor guide.
The "Introduction to TurnItIn" presentation TLTR members are making available to their respective divisions can be found at the following links:
PDF
version of "Intro to TurnItIn" presentation
PowerPoint version of "Intro to TurnItIn"
presentation
If none of this info helps you solve your problem, feel free to contact Chad
Mohler at chmohler@truman.edu.
This page last modified by Chad Mohler, September 11, 2005