BRIEFING ON ‘TURNITIN’ 27TH FEBRUARY 2014
What is turnitin? Turn-it-in A computerized tool in ensuring that papers/reports written by student is free from plagiarism. http://www.turnitin.com
Why should we use turnitin VAST DATABASE 20+ billion pages of web content 220 million student papers and 90000+ publications PREVENT PLAGIARISM ENGAGE STUDENTS A high Similarity Percentage will engage the students to take extra effort in trying to improve the report.
SIMILARITY PERCENTAGE for FYP is not more than 30% Turnitin report will display the percentage of similarities based on: Green : 1 -24% of Similarity Yellow : 25 – 49% of Similarity Orange : 50 - 74% of Similarity Red : 75 – 100% of Similarity SIMILARITY PERCENTAGE for FYP is not more than 30%
HOW TO START USING TURNITIN?
They will put in your name and your email EXAMPLE: Your coordinators will enroll you in a class and create an assignment under that class They will put in your name and your email EXAMPLE: Name of class: FYP1 S2_1314 Name of assignment: Report
You will receive a notification email from Turnitin
Click here Name of FYP Coordinator
Assignment Click submit to hand in your report
Click confirm button
You will see the SIMILARITY PERCENTAGE straight away after first time submission. For resubmission, the SIMILARITY PERCENTAGE will be generated after 24 hours from your resubmission.
Click on the SIMILARITY percentage – Another window will appear
FYP COORDINATOR’S PERSPECTIVE
Click on the SIMILARITY percentage – Another window will appear
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