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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
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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