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Turnitin Student Guide
Document Overview:
1. Submit a Turnitin assignment
2. View instructor’s comments
3. Write a PeerReview
Getting Ready
1. Log into https://icon.uiowa.edu/
2. Click on the Canvas Home tab. Go to the home page of your course within Canvas (ICON).
Follow up:
If you have questions regarding this instructional technology, please contact the ITS Help Desk at its-
For future events and trainings, please refer to https://teach.its.uiowa.edu/events/upcoming.
Description of terms:
Feedback Studio: New interface for Turnitin’s plagiarism detection, also known as Originality Check.
GradeMark: Now called QuickMarks, the annotation tool in Feedback Studio.
Peermark: Peer Review feature of Turnitin.
Before we begin, please note:
The assignment title limit is 99 characters.
Turnitin submissions require a minimum of 25 words, and maximum of 400 pages, and a file size
maximum of 40 MB.
Students cannot submit multiple file uploads. You may be able to resubmit a document (depends on
assignment settings) but cannot upload more than one file at a time.
If the assignment is set to allow only file types that Turnitin can check for originality, Turnitin will only
accept files that can generate Originality Reports. This includes:
o Microsoft Word (.doc/.docx)
o OpenOffice Text (.odt)
o WordPerfect (.wpd)
o PostScript (.ps/.eps)
o HTML
o Hangul Word Processor file (.hwp)
o Rich text format (.rtf)
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o Plain text (.txt)
o Google Docs via Google Drive
o Adobe PDF
o Microsoft PowerPoint (.pptx, .ppt, .ppsx, and .pps)
o Microsoft Excel® (.xls and .xlsx)
Turnitin will not accept PDF image files, forms, or portfolios, files that do not contain highlightable text
(e.g. a scanned file - usually an image), documents containing multiple files or files created with
software other than Adobe Acrobat.
If submitting with Google Drive, third party cookies must be allowed in your browser, otherwise, any
attempts to sign into Google to upload from Google Drive will fail. Note that Google Drive functionality
is not supported with IE8 or below. Do not upload Google Doc (.gdoc) files directly to Turnitin; a
.gdoc file does not store the document, but contains a reference to it online, in Google Docs.
Turnitin will not accept the following to generate Originality Reports:
o Password protected files
o Microsoft® Works (.wps) files
o Microsoft Word 2007 macros-enabled .docm files
o OpenOffice Text (.odt) files created and downloaded from Google Docs online
o Document (.doc) files created using OpenOffice, as they are not 100% Microsoft Word
equivalent
o Apple Pages
o Spreadsheets created outside of Microsoft Excel (i.e. .ods)
o Text with visual effects
Turnitin converts a PowerPoint slide deck into a static PDF, leaving all text and images in their original
format but leaving out features such as presenter notes, embedded video, and animations. Text with
visual effects is not supported, and it is recommended that any visual effects such as shadows and 3D be
removed prior to submitting to Turnitin.
When converting a file to a new file format, students should rename their file with a name other than
that of the original file. This will prevent permanent loss of the original formatting or image content of a
file due to it being overwritten.
If a student uploads a second version of a paper, the first one is overwritten in Turnitin along with its
Originality Report, so the second version does not generate a match to the original. This also applies in a
case where an instructor manually deletes a student paper so the student can upload another one.
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Submit a Turnitin Assignment
1. Click Assignments in the navigational menu of the course.
2. Select the appropriate assignment.
3. Click Upload Submission.
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4. Enter a Submission Title, and click Select a file to upload. Find and select the assignment from your
computer.
5. Click Continue to confirm the file upload.
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6. You will see a brief Uploading… message.
7. Verify your submission by clicking Accept Submission & Save button at the bottom right of the screen.
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8. You will see a brief Submitting… message and then a Submission Complete one.
9. This should send you back to the Assignment Dashboard with a Submission uploaded successfully
notification highlighted in green.
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View instructor’s comments
1. Click Assignments in the navigational menu of the course.
2. Select the appropriate assignment.
3. Click the title of your paper to open Feedback Studio.
4. When you first open Feedback Studio, you will not be able to see instructor feedback. In order to enable
feedback, Click on the right side of the screen.
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5. From here, you can view Grademarks, Rubrics, as well as comments on the paper.
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Write a PeerMark review
1. Click Assignments in the navigational menu of the course.
2. Select the appropriate assignment.
3. Click PeerMark Reviews in the top navigation menu.
4. Click Write Reviews, which will open a drop-down menu. Select Start a review.
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5. This will open a new window where you can answer the review questions [1], add comments [2] made
on the paper. You can also annotate [3] using the Tools options. Once done, you can click Submit.
6. You can access the reviews by clicking the PeerMark reviews tab [1]. You can View submitted
reviews [2], read reviews Received [3] and write a review [4].
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More information:
Instructors:
https://guides.turnitin.com/03_Integrations/Learning_Tools_Interoperability_(LTI)/03_LTI_Instructor_User_M
anual/07_PeerMark_Assignments
Students:
https://guides.turnitin.com/03_Integrations/Learning_Tools_Interoperability_(LTI)/06_LTI_Student_User_Man
ual/05_PeerMark_Review
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