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Quick Guide to Printing a Turnitin Originality Report onBlackboard

OverviewThe Turnitin Blackboard building block allows students to submit anassignment from within their Blackboard course directly to theTurnitinplagiarism prevention software. Turnitin then generates an 'OriginalityReport' which identifies unoriginal submitted material.

Originality Reports can be downloaded and/or printed, for the benefit ofthe instructor, student, examiner or extern.

This document assumes that the Instructor has already created a Turnitinassignment on Blackboard and that a student has already submitted apaper.

1 The Instructor Accesses the Turnitin Originality

Report

1. Instructors access the Control Panel Course Tools and thenclick on the Turnitin Assignments link.

2. Click View under the name of the assignment. You will seea list of all student submissions, ordered by the percentage textmatching in the originality reports (highest percentage at the top).

Completed originality reports are colour coded with a percentagevalue. Note that a ghosted out report box indicates that theoriginality report is being generated. Click on the colour coded iconto view the originality report.3. This will open up the Turnitin document viewer.

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2 The Instructor Downloads/Prints the TurnitinOriginality Report

1. Within the Turnitin document viewer, the instructor has theoption to either download or print the originality report. Adownloaded report will be in html format, with a .html file extension,which means that it can be opened in a supported browser (e.g.

Internet Explorer or Firefox). A downloaded report can also beemailed to other parties, but please be very careful when emailingoriginality reports to colleagues and ensure that the studentsprivacy is not breached.

2. To download an originality report, click on the little downloadicon at the bottom left of the viewer.

A dialogue box will appear, explaining that the full download is notyet available but that you can download a text version of thedocument.

Click the Download button to confirm. You will then be given theoption to open the file (in your default browser) or to save the fileon your machine. Remember to give the file a meaningful name,and put it in a folder that youll remember.

3. To print the originality report (without saving it), click on thelittle print icon at the bottom left of the viewer.

A dialogue box will appear, explaining that the full print functionalityis not yet available but that you can print a text version of thedocument.



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Click the Print button to confirm. A preview of the report will thenappear in your browser and you should click on the word print tosend the report to the printer.

Instructor notes for viewing Originality Reports

Turnitin is not a plagiarism detection tool it is simply a text matchingtool. The percentage matching is not a reliable indicator of the level ofplagiarism within student work. You must carefully interpret the originalityreports before making a judgement about plagiarism.

For further information and help with interpreting originality reports,please contact [email protected].

Please keep in mind that you may be presented with a large number oforiginality reports and it may not be possible to view each one. Thereforeyou need to have considered a strategy for dealing with these. Possiblestrategies are:

Only examine originality reports with a similarity index above acertain limit (e.g. 25%)

Only examine the N originality reports with the highest similarityindices, where N is a number pre-determined by you (e.g. 15 out of100 assignments).

Select N assignments at random from those submitted and only

submit these to Turnitin.

Further informationFor further assistance please refer to the CELT websitehttp://www.nuigalway.ie/celt/

or

email either [email protected] or [email protected]

Academic staff who are considering using Turnitin with their students areadvised to contact [email protected], or the appropriate PlagiarismAdvisor for the School, for advice and support.

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