1. Introduction to Turnitin

2. Intended outcomes
At the end of this session it is expected that
participants will be familiar with
• Navigating through the Turnitin settings via
LEO
• Viewing an originality report for a sample
submission
• Selecting Turnitin settings for marking

3. Turnitin: is a Text matching
tool
• Checks electronically submitted papers against
the Turnitin database of academic
publications, internet and other student
papers.
• Turnitin Assignment is available in LEO units
• Turnitin licence includes: Originality Check,
GradeMark
• Turnitin Assignment is expected to be
available in LEO on July 9th

4. Policy
• Default settings are expected to become part
of the revised Academic Honesty Policy
Will lecturers be directed to use it or is it a
choice?
• Decisions are made at the faculty level. It is
the responsibility of the lecturer to ask the
relevant staff in their faculty about standard
practice.

5. Process
• Academic creates Turnitin assignment
• Student submits assignment
– Student may view originality report and resubmit
until due date
• Academic views submissions
– Academic accesses Originality report
• Academic grades submissions

6. Go toTurnitin Assignment
http://acutest.androgogic.com/
1. Create a Turnitin
Assignment Turn
editing on
3. Add Assignment
name, enter
assessment details in
Summary field
2. Select the Turnitin
Assignment from the
Add an Activity (drop
down menu)
4. Before you save
and display check the
general and advanced
Turnitin settings

7. Turnitin: General
Field
Action
Turnitin Assignment Name
This is a mandatory field: enter the
simple short name for your assignment
Summary
This is a mandatory field: enter the
assessment description and details
Submission Type
Default: ANY SUBMISSION TYPE (file
types includes docx, html, Wordperfect,
txt, rtf, and pdf, it does not accept PPT)
Number of Parts
Default : 1 (max. 5)
Maximum File Size
Default: 20MB
Overall Grade
Default: 100
Student Originality Reports
Default: YES

8. Turnitin: Advanced options
Field
Action
Allow Late Submissions
YES
Report Generation Speed
Default: GENERATE REPORT IMMEDIATELY,
REPORTS CAN BE OVERWRITTEN UNTIL DUE
DATE
Store Student Papers
Default: STANDARD REPOSITORY
Check against stored student papers
Default: YES
Check against internet
Default: YES
Check against journal, periodicals and
publications
Default: YES
Exclude Bibliography
Default: NO
Exclude Quoted Marks
Default: NO
Exclude Small matches
Default: Blank (no more they 2%
recommended)
Enable e-rater No:
ETS Handbook Advanced
E-rater Dictionary: Both US and UK English
Dictionaries
E-rater Categories: spelling, Grammar, Usage,
Mechanics, Style (all ticked)

9. Academics
If using Turnitin Assignment in your LEO unit:
• Inform student Originality reports can take up to 24
hours to generate especially if students are
resubmitting
• Inform students to allow enough time before the
assignment due date for the originality report to be
generated
• Direct students to academic skills or the library for
assistance interpreting originality reports
• Please ensure students do not change official student
email address

10. Summary
A Turnitin Assignment automatically defaults to 1 week from the date the
assignment was created. To change the start, due or post date click on the Turnitin
assignment on your LEO unit
1. Click on the Turnitin Assignment link in your LEO unit
2. Click on SUMMARY TAB
3. Under the Assignment Part, click on the Pencil icon to edit
4. Click Submit to save changes

11. Submission Inbox
To access student submissions and originality reports:
1. Click on Turnitin Assignment link in LEO unit
2. In the Assignment page, click on the Submission Inbox tab
3. Under a students name click on the plus sign (+) to open and view parts
4. Under the Similarity column, click on the % (colour scheme) to view originality report
matching student submission against Turnitin database sources.

12. Turnitin OriginalityCheck
Overall
summary
Full source: matching
text is blocked
Click on full source link
to view matching text as
shown in context
Direct
source
summary

13. Turnitin GradeMark
Add voice
comments
Insert
comments
Click and Drag
comments

14. Interpreting Originality
Reports
• What percentages are safe?
– There are no clear cut rules as all work will
probably contain some words from other sources.
However a high percentage would be anything
over 25% (Yellow/Orange /Red)
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Quotation and referencing
Paraphrasing
Common words and phrases
Students reusing work

15. Specific strategies to enhance
academic integrity in a unit
• Design curriculum to prevent plagiarism.
• Model good practice (in unit resources).
• Clarify what’s required of students in assessment
work.
• Clarify expectations and acceptable academic
writing.
• Using text matching tool “Turnitin Assignment” in
LEO for marking written work.

16. Turnitin support resources
• Libguides: LEO support for staff
• http://libguides.acu.edu.au/LEO