• Contact Keven Riggle 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 New User in the upper right hand corner and follow steps 1-5.
• 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?svr=

Contact Suzy Weisman (E-mail  tel: 8-6594)

Keven Riggle (Keven.Riggle@marquette.edu  tel: 8-3253)