Use Turnitin – Help Improve Student Writing Center for Distance Education Instructional Design Services Dr. Prasanthi Pallapu

Objectives Turnitin – Why? – Uses – What? Associate Turnitin to Dropbox View Turnitin ‘Similarity Index’ Use of ‘Draft Turnitin Dropbox’

Why? Plagiarism Spectrum – 10 types of unoriginal work spectrum.php

Uses Students – to improve writing skills – for better learning encourages to cite resources Educators – to help and encourage students – use it as a learning tool (not for penalizing) – for informed evaluation of student work

Turnitin Cloud-based service Is integrated into our learning management system Does NOT detect plagiarism. Finds text that matches other sources in the Turnitin databases – regardless of whether or not the text was properly cited.

Sources Compares students’ submissions to find matching text Three vast databases of content from three primary sources 1.The current and archived Web 2.Student papers 3.Content Partnerships

Sources 1.The current and archived Web – Searches over 45 billion web pages 2.Student papers – 50% of plagiarism comes from other student’s work – Compares over 337 million papers 3.Content Partnerships – Over 130 million articles – Library databases, text-book publishers, digital reference collections etc.

Search Targets student paper repository - works previously submitted in classes and assignments on Turnitin institution paper repository - a repository of student papers for the institution current and archived internet - a repository of archived and live publicly available internet pages turnitin.com/en_us/training/instructor-training/creating-assignments

Search Targets periodicals, journals, & publications - third party periodical, journal, and publication content including many major professional journals, periodicals, and business publications turnitin.com/en_us/training/instructor-training/creating-assignments

Repository Options standard paper repository institution paper repository no repository – Ideal to use for ‘Draft Turnitin Dropbox’

Originality Report /Similarity Index

File Types & Size File Types – training/submitting-papers training/submitting-papers File Size – Not to exceed 20 MB

Submissions in Dropbox

Demonstration Associate Turnitin to Dropbox – ateTurnitin.pdf ateTurnitin.pdf View Turnitin ‘Similarity Index’ – pdf pdf Use of Draft Turnitin Dropbox – Advanced Options No Repository option – training/creating-assignments training/creating-assignments

Demonstration

Resources Handouts – Dropbox: Turnitin – Dropbox: Turnitin Access utorials.html utorials.html

Resources on Turnitin.com Instructor Training – training training Students Questions – ion/turnitin/sales/Answers_to_Questions_Student s_Ask.pdf ion/turnitin/sales/Answers_to_Questions_Student s_Ask.pdf

Upper Iowa University Upper Iowa University CDE Professional Development Schedule

Upper Iowa University Upper Iowa University Center for Distance Education Education Services Invitations to teach and course eLearning Team Faculty training courses, academic course access, students Instructional Design Services Online course design and UIU CDE Resources Website UIU CDE Faculty Tutorials Website