Every Turnitin user needs a User Profile, which
consists of an email address, a password, and contact information. Faculty can create a
Profile at any time; however, to set up classes and assignments and to obtain originality
reports your Profile must be associated with Marquette’s account.
- Contact Keven Riggle (8-3253 or e-mail) to obtain
Marquette’s Account ID and Account
Join Password.
- Review one of the excellent illustrated training manuals available at turnitin.com/static/training.html.
The Instructor Quickstartprovides the basics, while
the Instructor User Manual goes into more detail.
NEW USERS
- Go to Turnitin’s
homepage.
- Select the New User link just below the login boxes
(e-mail / password).
- Enter an email address and a password of your choosing.
- User Type is instructor.
- If you are ready to set up a class and its first assignment, an easy way to proceed is
by selecting the Class Setup Wizard; if you’d
rather wait, follow the LOGIN and JOINING instructions below.
PREVIOUSLY REGISTERED USERS
LOGIN
- Login in the upper right hand corner of the Turnitin homepage using the email address
and password you entered when creating your User Profile.
- Login will take you to your Instructor Homepage.
JOINING MU’s ACCOUNT
- Select the Join Account button.
- Enter MU’s Account ID number and Account
Join Password.
- You’ll only need to join once.
CREATING A CLASS HOMEPAGE
All submissions at Turnitin take place within a class or classes that you create.
- At your Instructor Homepage select the Add a
Class link.
- Enter the Class Name and a Class Enrollment Password of your choosing.
- Turnitin will assign a Class ID
**Students will need both the Class ID and the Enrollment Password** EXCEPT if there are
class sections (below)**
CLASS SECTIONS/TEACHING ASSISTANTS
Teaching Assistants can view class reports of their sections but can’t add assignments to
the section or modify class information:
- When you create a class (above), click the checkbox and add a TA
Join Password.
- Distribute the Class ID and TA Join Password to your TAs.
-
- Instruct your TAs to register and login as instructors.
- TAs need to select the Join Class(TA) box
on their homepage and furnish a Class ID,
the A join password and a Section Enrollment
Password
- Turnitin will supply a Section ID.
**Students will need to know the Section ID
and Section Enrollment Password**
- For more information on class sections see page 49 of the Instructor’s Manual.
ADDING AN ASSIGNMENT
- From your Instructor Homepage click on Class Name
- Select Create New Class Assignment
- Supply an Assignment Title
- Supply a Start Date and a Due Date
- Selecting Allow Submissions After Due Date
permits late papers
- Selecting Full Search, enables comparison
against the Internet, ProQuest Databases as well as previously submitted papers.
- For legal reasons, Turnitin recommends that students submit their own
papers.
VIEWING PAPERS
- From the Instructor Homepage, click Class Title.
- The Assignment Inbox contains all papers
submitted for a particular assignment.
- Papers in the Assignment Inbox can be sorted by student name, paper title,
& date submitted by clicking on column headers. Unwanted papers can be deleted.
- To read a paper click on its title.
READING & INTERPRETING ORIGINALITY REPORTS
- For each paper submitted, Turnitin produces an Originality
Report which is accessed via a Report Icon.
- Papers are numerically and color-coded according to the amount of matching text found.
- **Note: “a high similarity rating does not necessarily indicate that a student is
guilty of plagiarism. It just indicates that matches have been found on the Internet, in the
Turnitin database of papers, or from articles in ProQuest’s commercial database.
The report must be thoroughly examined by the instructor.”
- The report can be opened in either a print version or a side-by-side version, which compares
the text to the original source. Matching text is highlighted and color-coded.
- View the matching source, by selecting its URL in the source section of the report. If the
source is from the Internet, a database article, or one of your classes it will open in a separate
window. If the paper belongs to another instructor you must request permission to see it.
- For a more detailed description of see page 12-14 of Turnitin’s Instructors Manual.
SYLLABUS
- Students should be informed ahead of time that their papers will be submitted to
Turnitin.com. Here’s a sample statement you might want provide your
classes.
In this course you will be required to submit written assignments in electronic form to a
plagiarism detection website called Turnitin. Turnitin will check your submissions for
originality. Your assignments become a permanent part of Turnitin.com
database, but will not be used for any other purpose than checking for plagiarism.
- A well organized syllabus with Turnitin assignments clearly labeled and dated will help
avoid student confusion and mistakes such as submitting papers to the wrong assignment.
STUDENTS
- Student papers can be submitted in Word, Text, Postscript, PDF, HTML, and RTF.
- Students should read the University’s Academic
Dishonesty Policy
- Educate your students about plagiarism. Let them know your standards. Turnitin.com and
Owl
(Online Writing Lab) provide excellent help sheets.
GETTING HELP
Turnitin help is available at turnitin.com/help/helpdesk.asp
Contact Suzy Weisman (E-mail tel: 8-6594)
Keven Riggle (Keven.Riggle@marquette.edu
tel: 8-3253)
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