Turnitin

What is Turnitin?

Turnitin is an Internet-based plagiarism-detection service where you will often upload assignments to your professors. The service provides a place to turn in files and check the originality of the document. Turnitin also provides tools for professors and students to annotate the submitted assignments.

Tutorials

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• How to Upload a File
  • Turnitin Tutorial for Uploading a file .(opens in new window)
  • Remember to save the desired file to a place you can easily find/access.
  • Remember to always check for a Digital Receipt(opens in new window) in your email after submitting an assignment to ensure you have done everything necessary on your end as a student .
• How to View Assignment Feedback
  • Viewing Overall Grade(opens in new window)

  Tunritin also has a feature called ETS e-rater(opens in new window). When an instructor turns this feature on, it will provide you grammar, spelling, and punctuation feedback as well.

  • Viewing Bubble feedback(opens in new window)
  • Viewing Text Feedback(opens in new window)
• What are Similarity Reports?
  • Similarity Reports(opens in new window) are run to determine how original the content in your assignment is, High similarity report scores could look like Plagiarism (PDF) to your professor.
  • Refining your similarity report(opens in new window) to exclude certain sources.