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TURNITINGUIDE FOR STUDENT

UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SABAH LIBRARY

Contents

Step 1: Registration

Step 2: Assignment Inbox

Step 3: Submitting a Paper

Step 4: Confirming Your Submission

Step 5: Viewing a Similarity Report

Step 6: Viewing Instructor Feedback in GradeMark

What is Turnitin?

Turnitin is web-based plagiarism detection software owned by Turnitin.com, Inc.,

Turnitin offers three main services:

PeerMark: A tool that allow students to read, review, and evaluate one or many papers submitted by their classmates.

GradeMark: A tool to facilitate online marking of student writing

OriginalityCheck: The original Turnitin tool, which identifies overlap between pieces of writing and produces an originality report with the percentage of overlapping material;

how does it work?

To begin, you need to first register with Turnitin and

create a user profile

You need to have the UMS email address example

ali@ums.edu.my

Turnitin is available at UMS Library website

http://www.ums.edu.my/library

STEP 1: REGISTRATION

Library Website

Click Turnitin

Turnitin Website

Click this

button

Click on the ‘Create Account’ link on the homepage

and the Create a User Profile page will open

Click ‘student’ button

In order to create a

profile, you must have an

Class ID and Enrolment

Password.

Get this from your

instructor

Must use email UMS

Once you have create

your profile, click the

‘I Agree- Create

Profile’ button

STEP 2: ASSIGNMENT INBOX

Your class Portfolio shown the assignment your

instructor has created and your submission to the

class

STEP 3: SUBMITTING PAPER

To submit a paper, click the

‘submit’ button next to the

paper assignment

The paper submission page

will open. Enter a title for

your paper

Turnitin accepts submissions in

these formats:

Microsoft Word™ (DOC and DOCX)Corel WordPerfect®HTMLAdobe PostScript®Plain text (TXT)Rich Text Format (RTF)Portable Document Format (PDF)Microsoft PowerPoint (PPT, PPTX, and PPS)Hangul (HWP)

Click the "Upload" button at the

bottom.

STOP, and WAIT for the

next page to appear.

STEP 4:

CONFIRMING YOUR SUBMISSION

Submitting a paper confirmation

Click "Confirm" to confirm

your submission.

To return to your

portfolio and view

your submission,

click the ‘Return to

assignment list’

button

Students have a choice to upload a

file

If your paper is in a format that we do not accept, you

can submit it by using the cut and paste method. To

submit a paper this way, select Cut & paste

upload using the pull-down at the top of the form.

Copy the text of your paper from a word processing

program and then paste it into the text box in the

submission form.

Click cut & paste form

Insert

submission title

Cut and paste your

paper

Click upload

STEP 5:

VIEWING A SIMILARITY REPORT

Viewing an Originality Report

If you see the text Not Available instead of an

Originality Report icon in your portfolio, then

your instructor has disables the ability for

students to view the Originality Report for this

assignment.

If you would like to view your report, contact

your instructor.

Example if you can view your Originality

Report

Viewing an Originality Report

Click to view

report

Result Plagiarism

**Important

after your paper is successfullysubmitted, your digital receipt willbe displayed on screen. Thedigital receipt has a SubmissionID number, which is confirmationthat Turnitin has received yourpaper. If you do not see a digitalreceipt with a Submission IDnumber, then your paper was notsuccessfully received by Turnitin.The digital receipt is also emailedto you as well.

STEP 5:

VIEWING INSTRUCTOR FEEDBACK

If your instructor has provided feedback on

your paper within GradeMark, students are

able to view the feedback after the post

date of the assignment. The post date is the

date whereby your instructor should have

left feedback on your paper.

When the post date passes, all students are

able to access instructor feedback within

GradeMark by clicking on the blue

View button.

Example:

Click to view

instructor comment

Instructor

comment

QUESTION?

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