Faculty Development Session:Turnitin

Susan Bloom, MLIS

What is turnitin?

Setting up an account

Creating a class

Enrolling students

Assigning assignments

Using the software

Lesson Objectives

Prevents plagiarism

Allows for better reviewing and grading

Tracks student progress

Turnitin

Turnitin helps to ensure originality in student

writing by comparing papers with over 150 million

assignments and billions of web pages. It tells the

professor the percentage of the student’s

assignment that was found in these other papers

and can also show the original work where the lifted

section was found. The professor always has final

say over the analysis of a paper.

Preventing Plagiarism

In order to create a Turnitin account, you must first get an account number and password from an administrator. This will connect you to the Molloy account.

Note: This is not the information you will use when you log into the system, it is only used to create a new account!

Administrators:◦ Mary Jane Reilly mreilly@molloy.edu◦ Gerry Hawkins ghawkins@molloy.edu◦ Susan Bloom sbloom@molloy.edu

Step 1: Contact an administrator

Step 2: Set up an account

Click on Create an account

Step 2: Setting up an account (continued)

Choose “instructor”

Step 2: Setting up an account (continued)

Add the account information the administrator provided here

Create a new password here

Instructor Homepage

Step 3: Adding a class

Choose “add a class”

Step 3: Creating a class (continued)

There are two class types, the standard class and the master class. Only choose master class if you will be subdividing the class with TAs.

Once a class expires, instructors cannot make changes within the class unless it is reactivated!

The class name and password can be anything the instructor chooses, try and create passwords your students will remember, they will need to input it in order to join the class on the program

Students may self-enroll or instructors may create accounts for them. It is advised that students self-enroll.

Students must have the unique class name and case-sensitive password before they can join a class.

Students will receive an enrollment email after they have completed the set-up process.

Step 4: Enrolling Students

Step 5: Creating assignments

Click on the class name

Step 5: Creating assignments (continued)

Choose “New Assignment”

Step 5: Creating assignments (continued)

If you are unsure what something means, hover over the question mark

Options

Assignment options

Step 5: Creating assignments (continued)

Step 6: Grading papersTells the user how many students are in the class and how many have completed the assignment

Choose “view”

Step 6: Grading papers (continued)

Student’s name

Assignment Name

Student’s paper title (click on the assignment name when you are ready to begin grading)

Basic similarity profile

Original submission file

Submission date

Step 6: Grading Papers (continued)

Choose one of these options

Step 6: Grading Papers (continued)

This feature allows professors to

grade work and make comments digitally.

These comments can be made available

for students to see or not at your

discretion.

GradeMark

Step 6: Grading Papers (continued)

The system allows for easy writing

workshops. Instructors may assign one student a

paper from another student (may be anonymous)

to review and comment on. Professors can also

post questions to answer and choose whether or

not students see each others comments.

PeerMark

https://turnitin.com

Turnitin Demonstration