The Basics for Using

1. The Basics for Using

2. Why TurnItIn? • Keiser University has invested in TurnItIn.com because it helps improve the quality of instruction in all academic areas. • Computer-aided monitoring of students’ originality holds them accountable for more thorough mastery of content.

4. Getting Started • Obtain a username and password from your campus’s new account administrator • Visit turnitin.com and sign in with the username and password.

6. Getting Started • Click the green plus sign to add a class. • To add a class, you only need the name of the class.

8. Getting Started • Once you’ve added the class, a pop-up window provides you an enrollment ID to provide students. • Students new to the product will be able to create an account with this enrollment ID. • Students who have used Tii before can use the enrollment ID and password to join your class.

11. Getting Started • Now that you have created a class, create an assignment by clicking on the plus sign for New Assignment. • Each new assignment in Tii creates a dropbox students can use to submit their work.

13. Getting Started • Give the assignment a name. • Specify the date you will begin accepting submissions and the due date. • The “point value” and “post date” fields are for instructors who use Tii as a course management system.

14. Getting Started • Under “more options,” you can specify whether TurnItIn should: • Exclude small matches • Exclude quoted material • Exclude bibliographic references • All these settings can be changed before or after the dropbox is set up. • Your class home page now shows the assignment dropbox:

16. Setting Up Revision Assignments • Revision assignments give students an opportunity to revise an assignment based on the originality report. • The revision assignment dropbox avoids assignments appearing to be plagiarized because of similarity between two drafts of the same assignment. • From the class home page, click New Assignment.

18. Setting Up Revision Assignments • When you specify revision assignment, instead of naming the new assignment, you are asked to choose from among your existing assignments from a drop-down menu.

20. Setting Up Revision Assignments • Be sure to allow students to review their originality reports so they can see if they have over-relied on their sources.

23. Managing Classes • Once students have handed in an assignment, they are listed in the dropbox according to similarity index. • The similarity index, expressed as a percent, simply expresses the amount of text that matches other submissions or web-based sources.

25. Originality Reports • Click on the similarity index to see the originality report. • Originality reports show teachers and students where their work is similar to other students’ paper or documents on the internet.

27. Coaching Students • Arbitrary thresholds for originality/similarity are not useful. • Originality expectations vary from assignment to assignment. • Instructors should ask themselves, “To what is the paper similar?” and “In what way is the paper similar?”

28. Coaching Students • Encourage students to achieve higher originality scores by paraphrasing more and quoting less. • Encourage students to develop the habit of learning material well enough to write about it without looking at it.

29. Coaching Students • Similarity to scholarly sources can be acceptable if it is documented correctly. • Similarity to low-quality web sites and free term paper sources probably represents academic dishonesty.

30. Coaching Students • Self-plagiarism should be discouraged. • Never assume an assignment has been plagiarized solely on the basis of its similarity index. You must consult the originality report to see details before forming a judgment about a student’s performance.