3. Objectives
The online submission and plagiarism checking: JISC
TurnitinUK
1. To understand the concept and advantages of
JISC Turnitin through Blackboard
2. To set up a Turnitin assignment in Blackboard,
submit an assignment and interpret the originality
report.
3. To mark online or to download students’
assignment for marking
4. Conclusion and Q&A
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6. Turnitin is recognised worldwide as the standard online
plagiarism prevention service.
• Turnitin is the first choice for 450,000 academics in 100
countries at over 6,500 institutions with over 60 millions
student papers proceed!
• 95% of UK universities (incl Oxford, Cambridge, Cardiff
& Glamorgan) use this award winning technology.
1. What is Turnitin?
7. Lecturer
Student
1. To understand the concept and advantages
Create
Assignment
Submission
link
Option 1: Download/ Print + mark offline
Option 2: Mark online (GradeMark + Grade Centre)
Submit assignment
Turnitin Originality Report
Resubmit assignment
before the due date
After the due date…
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Turnitin Originality Report
10. Turnitin
• searches against over 9 billion pages of web content,
more than 10,000 subscription-based journals and
periodicals articles
• searches against previously submitted paper
• supports Originality Reports and content searches in 30
languages
• A tool to help you!
1. What is Turnitin?
11. 1. To understand the concept and advantages
Lecturer
• Automated submission process
• Promote academic integrity (avoid
plagiarism)
• Everything is on Blackboard!
• Remove administrative hassles
• Online assessment - give more feedback
and speed up the marking process
Student
• Flexible submission & reduce cost
• “wish all tutors use it…”
• Formative assessment
• Improve academic integrity
• Digital receipt
• Assessment feedback
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Sources from “Turn it in or Turn it off project” (2010)
13. 2. To set up Turnitin assignment in Blackboard
Steps (Blackboard 9.1):
1. Log into Blackboard
2. Select any of your teaching module (or CELT training
module)
3. Click on the “Assessment” button
4. Turn on the edit mode (top right corner)
5. Add Interactive Tool and Select “TurnitinUK
Assignment”
6. Select “Paper Assignment”
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14. 2. To set up Turnitin assignment in Blackboard
Steps (Turnitin):
1. Assignment Title: Assignment – [Your Name]
2. Point Value: 100
3. Start Date: [Today date] [now]
4. Due Date: [Today date] [1 hour later]
5. Post Date: [20 days from the due date] 12.00am (Must be set
after the due date)
The University norm for electronic submission is Midnight (or 11.59 pm or
12.00am the next day) on the day of submission; or 4.00pm if you
require hard copies.
This is when marked assignments will become visible to students.
At Glamorgan this is 20 working days maximum, though lecturers
could choose to promise an earlier return date.
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6. Click on the “Submit” button
15. Steps (Turnitin):
1. You can edit the Turnitin submission link through the Control
Panel -> Course Tools -> TurnitinUK Assignments -> [your
assignment] -> “edit assignment” tab
• Or “item option” -> “Edit”
2. “More Options”:
• Instruction: “Use this link to submit your assignment. Full details for the
requirements of this assignment can be found on this page in the file titled
‘Coursework Guidance’. Shortly after you have submitted your assignment
via the View/Complete link you will be able to use this same link to view your
originality report. By submitting your assignment through the following link,
you have agreed to declare that this assignment is your own work and that
the sources of information and material you have used (including the internet)
have been fully identified and properly acknowledged as required in the
referencing guidelines provided.”
• Generate Originality Reports for student submissions – “immediately (can
overwrite reports until due date)”
You have a choice to use the originality report in a formative way,
as we recommend, or only summatively (“immediately - first
report is final”).
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2. To set up Turnitin assignment in Blackboard
16. Steps (Turnitin):
• Exclude bibliographic materials from Similarity Index for all papers in this
assignment?
• Exclude quoted materials from Similarity Index for all papers in this
assignment?
• Exclude small matches?
• Allow students to see Originality Reports?
• Allow submissions after the due date?
Finally click on the “Submit” button to confirm the
change(s) made.
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2. To set up Turnitin assignment in Blackboard
18. 3. To submit an assignment from a student’s view
A quick walkthrough:
• Select “CELT Training Module (2008/09)”
• Click on the “Assessment” button
• What happens after the due date? E.g. Criminology Project
• Submission before due date: Intro to Social Research Method
• Assignment information
• Click on the “Submit” button
• Select “File Upload”
• Student name will appear by default
• Assignment title followed by a hyphen and then the student ID,
i.e. Assignment1-08123456
• Digital receipt will be shown.
• Turnitin will e-mail a receipt to the student’s university e-mail
account:
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19. 3. To submit an assignment from a student’s view
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21. 1. Go to “Control Panel” and click on:
“Course Tools”
“TurnitinUK Assignments”
Click your coursework submission link
2. Sorting by column header
• Click any of the column names with a downward pointing arrow to the right.
Click a second time to re-sort in the opposite direction, e.g. A-Z becomes
Z-A
3. Select the percentage indication bar under “report”
heading to view the Originality Report.
2. To interpret the originality report
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22. 2. To interpret the originality report
What is a Originality Report?
• It is Turnitin’s analysis of the submitted assignment, identifying any
sections with matched text which may indicate plagiarism.
• An Originality Report is typically generated within 10 to 15 minutes
of submission. The report generation time may vary due to the
levels of usage during certain periods of the academic year or due
to a very large submission.
• Pedagogically, it is not meant to penalise a student but to improve
their academic integrity by avoiding plagiarism.
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26. 1. The Originality Report is separated into three main
sections in the default view:
• Top section: a summary of the assignment and submission information.
• Left section: assignment text with highlighted area for potential plagiarism
detected (Note: exclude quoted or exclude bibliography).
• Right section: information about sources which match the text.
2. The functions for excluding material are approximate and human
judgement has to be used to determine if this is a case of poor
referencing (which would get a poor mark) or plagiarism which is an
academic offence.
3. Quotations can only be excluded if the quotation is shown with
block-indentation or with quotation marks (“”) at the start and end.
2. To interpret the originality report
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27. Originality Report
75 -100% Matching text
50 - 74% Matching text
25 - 49% Matching text
0 - 24% Matching text
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1. In the old originality report, the color of the report icon indicates the overall
similarity index of the paper, based on the amount of matching or similar
text that was uncovered. The possible similarity indices are:
2. IMPORTANT: These indices DO NOT reflect Turnitin’s assessment of
whether a paper has or has not been plagiarised. Originality Reports are
simply a tool to help an instructor and student find sources that contain text
similar to submitted papers.
3. The decision to deem any work plagiarised must be made carefully, and
only after in depth examination of both the submitted paper and suspect
sources in accordance with the standards of the class and institution where
the paper was submitted.
30. Resubmission
Same process with the first submission:
• Click on the “Submit” button
• Select “File Upload”
• Student name will appear by default
• Assignment title followed by a hyphen and then the student
ID, i.e. Assignment1-08123456
• Digital receipt will be shown.
• Turnitin will e-mail a receipt to the student’s university e-mail
account.
• However the originality report will be generated 24 hours
later.
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2. To submit an assignment
31. 2. To submit an assignment
Odd Case / Special Case
1. Go back to the Turnitin Assignment Inbox through the
Course Tools
2. Click “Submit Paper”
3. Submit a dummy student paper with your name.
• Only these formats are accepted: Word, RTF, PDF, HTML, Postscript,
Plain text (.txt)
• You cannot submit a file which is larger than 20Mb.
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32. Create
assignment
Lecturer
Student
Turnitin Originality Report
Resubmit assignment
before the due date
Option 1: Download + mark offline
Option 2: Mark online (Grade Mark + Grade Centre)
3. To download students’ assignments
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To download: Assignment Inbox -> select
the paper(s) -> Download -> Original File
33. Reminder I: To see the Assignment Inbox
(class performance)
Control Panel -> Course Tools ->
“TurnitinUK Assignments”
Reminder II:
• What is ‘roster sync’ for?
• The roster sync function on the assignment inbox enables the students
enrolled in the VLE course to be listed on the assignment inbox. This
makes it quick and easy to see which students have not submitted their
work. If an assignment is being re-used from a previous year, it is
recommended that the roster sync is used to list the new enrolments; this
will prevent students getting an error message saying they are not
enrolled for that assignment.
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34. Recap Objectives
1. To understand the concept and advantages of
JISC Turnitin through Blackboard
2. To set up a Turnitin assignment in Blackboard,
submit an assignment and interpret the originality
report.
3. To mark online or to download students’
assignment for marking
4. Conclusion and Q&A
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TurnitinUK Support
TurnitinUK Helpdesk by web submission
TurnitinUK Helpdesk by phone: 08456430105
35. Lecturer
• Automated submission process
• Promote academic integrity (avoid plagiarism)
• Everything is on Blackboard!
• Remove administrative hassles
• Online assessment - give more feedback and speed up the marking
process
Student
• Flexible submission & reduce cost
• “wish all tutors use it…”
• Formative assessment
• Improve academic integrity
• Digital receipt
• Assessment feedback
Conclusion
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36. Q&A
Dr. Esyin Chew
Senior Lecturer in Technology Enhanced Learning, Teaching and Assessment
echew@glam.ac.uk
Steve Woodward
Curriculum Advice Officer for Technology Enhanced Learning
swoodwar@glam.ac.uk
Wiki for the Glamorgan Turnitin experience:
Turnitin.wetpaint.com
More Trainings…
GradeMark
Blackboard goes Web 2
e-Portfolio
QMP
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Notas do Editor
Turnitin will not only be compared against live internet pages, but also against academic and professional content not available on the public internet, including millions of commercial pages from books, newspapers and journals.
