Turnitin Student Quickstart Guide Mahidol University Library

Introduction This Student Quickstart will help you get started with Turnitin and will walk you through the steps for submitting your first paper. To begin, you need to first register with Turnitin.

Step 1

To register and create a user profile, go to http://www.turnitin.com/en_us/home .

Click on the "Create Account" link on the homepage and the Create a User Profile page will open.

Figure 1. Create Account area in Turnitin homepage.

Click on the "Student" link. Fill in the required information in the new user profile form. In order to

create a profile, you must have a class ID and an enrollment password. You can get this information

from your instructor.

Once you have created your profile, click the "I Agree" button to log into Turnitin. Your class will show up on your Turnitin account homepage. Click on the name of your class to open your class portfolio.

Figure 2. Click on the name of your class to open your profile.

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Step 2 Your class portfolio shows the assignments your instructor has created and your submissions to the class. To submit a paper, click the submit button.

Figure 3. Click the submit icon to upload your paper. Step 3 The paper submission page will open. Enter a title for your paper. To select a paper for submission, click the Choose from this computer button and locate the paper on your computer. We accept submissions in these formats:

MS Word WordPerfect RTF PDF PostScript HTML and plain text (.txt)

Figure 4. Click the Choose from this computer icon to select your paper

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After entering a Submission title for your paper and selecting a file, click Upload to upload your paper. Figure 5. Once you have located your paper and entered a title, click Upload If your paper is in a format that we do not accept, you can submit it by cut and paste. To submit a paper this way, select cut & paste using the pull down menu at the top of the form. Figure 5. Select cut & paste with the pull down to submit a paper in a file format we do not accept To submit a paper by cut and paste, copy the text of your paper from a word processing program and then paste it into the text box in the submission form. If you submit your paper using the cut and paste method, you skip the next step.

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Step 4 The paper you chose to submit will be shown on the next page. Look over all the information and make sure that it is correct. To confirm the submission, click the Confirm button. Figure 6. Make sure you selected the correct paper; click “Confirm” to finalize your submission Step 5 After you confirm your submission, a digital receipt will be shown. This receipt will be e-mailed to your e-mail account. To return to your portfolio and view your submission, click the Return to assignment list button. Figure 7. Click the Return to assignment list icon to return to your portfolio and view your submission

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By default, students cannot see their own Originality Reports. If you do not see an Originality Report icon in your portfolio and want to see your report, contact your instructor. If your instructor permits you to see your own Originality Report, follow the instructions carefully. Reports for a student's initial submission will be generated immediately. Students can choose to resubmit their papers and receive Originality Reports as many times as they would like up until the assignment's due date. Please note that reports are generated immediately only for a student's first submission; reports for subsequent submissions are delayed 24 hours.

Step 6 - Viewing an Originality Report To view your Originality Report, click on the Originality Report icon (under Similarity) to the right of the assignment. What does it all Mean? Papers submitted to Turnitin are compared against billions of internet documents, an archived copy of the internet, local databases of submitted student papers, and the commercial database. Any matching text Turnitin finds is detailed in an Originality Report sent to your class portfolio.

Originality Reports provide a summary of the matching text found in a submitted paper. When an Originality Report is available to view, an icon will appear in the report column of your assignment inbox. Originality reports that are not yet finished are represented by a grayed-out icon.

The color of the report icon indicates the overall similarity index of the paper, based on how much matching text we found. The possible similarity indices are:

blue (no matching words)

green (1 word-24% matching text)

yellow (25-49% matching text)

orange (50-74% matching text)

red (75-100% matching text)

NOTE: These indices in no way reflect Turnitin’s assessment of whether a paper has or has not been plagiarized. Originality Reports are simply tools to help your teacher locate potential sources of plagiarism in submitted papers. The decision to deem any work plagiarized must be made carefully by your instructor, and only after careful examination of both the submitted paper and the suspect sources.

To open an Originality Report, click the report icon in the contents column of your portfolio. The Originality Report will open in a new window.

The Originality Report has three main sections:

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• paper information: The report header shows information about the submitted paper including paper title, author, word count, and the date the report was processed.

• paper text: The left side of the report shows the text of the submitted paper. Matching text is highlighted in red and numbered to correspond with sources to the right.

• matching sources: The right side of the report lists the sources of matching text.

You can download or print the Originality Report for your paper by doing the following: 1.Click on the percentage or color-coded rectangle under the "Report" heading. This will load the Originality Report in a new window (please make sure your popup blocker is disabled). 2.If you are still in the Document Viewer, change the view to "text only". This is the button on the bottom right of the screen. 3.Click the printer icon, for print to pdf file or click download icon for save to html file. .

Figure 8. Click Text-Only Report for change the view to “text only”

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Figure 9. Click printer icon or Click download icon You send Originality Report file (html or pdf) to advisor, afterwards he/she sign in GR50. You send GR50 and print to paper the first page of Originality Report (Show Similarity Index) to Faculty of Graduate Studies. If you need further assistance with Turnitin, contact the library liwww@mahidol.ac.th