GUIDE FOR

STUDENTSby

Research and Information Services DivisionPerpustakaan Sultan Abdul Samad, Universiti Putra

Malaysia

INTRODUCTION

HOW TO ACCESS TO TURNITIN

GETTING STARTED – 4 EASY STEPS

STEP 1 : Create User Profile/Registration

STEP 2 : Submit Paper

STEP 3 : Viewing Originality Reports

STEP 4 : Enroll in Additional Classes

OUTLINES

INTRODUCTION

WHAT IS TURNITIN?

A web-based solution that puts the student’s paper at the

CENTER of the Online Feedback Process.

A suite of educational tools for digital assessment and

plagiarism prevention.

To Deter Plagiarism

To Hold Students Accountable

To Determine The Similarity of Text To Sources

To Enhance Teaching & Student Learning

WHAT TURNITIN SEARCH?

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The current and archived web content that is publicly available (more than 60 billion pages indexed)

600 millions of student papers submitted to Turnitin

since 1996

Millions of published works (books, newspapers, and journals) through its partnerships with publishers, library

databases, digital reference collections and subscription-based publications, CrossRef (CrossCheck)

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WHAT TURNITIN DOES?

INTRODUCTION

ORIGINALITY CHECK?

Books, Journals, Newspapers

Submission Repository

Internet Resources

Matching passages from 50+

billion Internet web pages:

updated at a rate of 60-240

million pages/day.

Matching passages from

millions of Student Papers

or Client Node.

Matching passages from

millions of Books, Journals,

Newspapers.

Student’s Essay

Turnitin Create Originality Report

GETTING STARTED > HOW TO ACCESS?

4 EASY STEPS

STUDENT ACCOUNT

Create Your User Profile (one-time only)

Submit Paper

Viewing Originality Reports

Enroll in Additional Classes

Submit Paper

To enroll in a class, please enter

the Class ID and Enrollment Key

that you were given by your

instructor. Once enrolled, students

can start submitting papers

Instructor to provide students:

• CLASS ID

• ENROLLMENT KEY

STEP 1

STEP 2

STEP 3

STEP 4

Visit the Library Website

http://www.lib.upm.edu.my

> Click icon Turnitin

GETTING STARTED > HOW TO ACCESS?

Visit the Turnitin Website

http://www.turnitin.com

GETTING STARTED > HOW TO ACCESS? > STEP 1

CREATE USER PROFILE (ONE-TIME ONLY)

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1.Click Create Account link in the upper right corner of the Turnitinhomepage.

You will be directly linked to the “Create a User Profile” page

GETTING STARTED > HOW TO ACCESS? > STEP 1

CREATE USER PROFILE (ONE-TIME ONLY)

2. Click on the Student link from the Create a User Profile page.

3. Enter your Class ID and Class Enrollment Key in the appropriate fields

Note: (Get the Class ID and Class Enrollment Key from your Instructor/ Supervisor)

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GETTING STARTED > HOW TO ACCESS? > STEP 1

4. Enter your first name, your last name and the e-mail address you would like associated with your Turnitin account (this will be your user name)

5. Enter (and re-enter) the password you would like to use as your Turnitin login password.

CREATE USER PROFILE (ONE-TIME ONLY)

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GETTING STARTED > HOW TO ACCESS? > STEP 1

CREATE USER PROFILE (ONE-TIME ONLY)

6.Select a secret question using the secret question pull down menu, enter an answer

7.Review the Turnitinuser agreement and click I Agreeand finalize user profile creation.

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GETTING STARTED > HOW TO ACCESS? > STEP 2

SUBMIT PAPER

1.Click on the Class Name on the homepage.

2.Click on the Submit button to the right of the assignment name

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GETTING STARTED > HOW TO ACCESS? > STEP 2

SUBMIT PAPER3. Select the submission

method from the “choose a paper submission method:" pull down menu. Students are advice to choose Single File Upload.

4. Enter the paper title for the submission in the appropriate field

5. Students have a choice to upload a file from the Computer, Dropbox or Google Drive. Click one of the submission buttons and then select the file you would like to upload.

6. Click on Upload button to upload the file.

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GETTING STARTED > HOW TO ACCESS? > STEP 2

SUBMIT PAPER

7.Review the file and click the Confirmbutton to upload the file to the assignment.

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GETTING STARTED > HOW TO ACCESS? > STEP 2

SUBMIT PAPER8. To return to your portfolio

and view your submission, click the Return to assignment list button.

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GETTING STARTED > HOW TO ACCESS? > STEP 3

VIEWING ORIGINALITY REPORTSThe Similarity Report provides a summary of matching or similar areas of text found in a submitted paper. Similarity Reports that have not finished generating will display the text processing.

9. To view your Originality Report, click at the percentage (%) on the “Similarity” column or View button to the right of the assignment.

Note: Color coding for Turnitin enabled assignment in grades.The color indicates howmuch text has been matched.

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GETTING STARTED > HOW TO ACCESS? > STEP 3

VIEWING ORIGINALITY REPORTS

The Originality Report will appear in a pop-up window.

10.Click on download icon to download and print report. Choose Current View .

Total % of similarity

report

GETTING STARTED > HOW TO ACCESS? > STEP 3

CURRENT VIEW

GETTING STARTED > HOW TO ACCESS? > STEP 4

ENROLL IN ADDITIONAL CLASSES

1. Click Enroll in a Class tab on your student homepage.

2. Enter Class ID and Enrollment key. Get the Class ID and Enrollment key from your Instructor/ Supervisor.

3. Click submit to enrollin the class

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ADDED INFORMATION

LIAISON LIBRARIANS

LIAISON LIBRARIANS