INFORMATION MANAGEMENT DIVISION, PSAS

 Turnitin is a suite of educational tools for digital assessment and plagiarism prevention. To Deter Plagiarism To Hold Students Accountable To Enhance Teaching & Student Learning To Determine The Similarity Of Text To Sources 2

ORIGINALITY REPORT Matching passages from 12+ billion Internet web pages: updated at a rate of million pages/day Matching passages from millions of Student Papers or Client Node Compare matching passages to original manuscript or article Matching passages from millions of Books, Journals, Newspapers Create Originality Report 3

WHAT TURNITIN SEARCHES? A current and archived copy of the publicly accessible Internet (more than 12 billion pages indexed) 90 millions of student papers submitted to Turnitin since 1996 Millions of published works from ProQuest, Emerald, EbscoHost, Gale Cengage, Thomson Reuters, Science Direct, ABC-CLIO, The Gutenburg Collection and CrossRef (CrossCheck). 4

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Visit the library website: 6 Click here

 START by log in to Turnitin with your address and password 7

 Adding a class Click “Ädd Class” button to create a class

9 2. Select class type = ‘Standard’ 3. Enter a ‘Çlass Name’ & ‘enrollment password’ 4. Select appropriate subject area(s) and student level(s) 5. Select ‘çlass end date’. Paper cannot be submitted after this date 6. Click ‘submit’

Important! Class ID and Enrollment password should be distributed to your student Important! Class ID and Enrollment password should be distributed to your student The class will now appear in your class list

Click ‘New Assignment’ button to create an assignment

Select ‘Paper Assignment’ 10. Click ‘Next Step’

Enter ‘Assignment title’ 12. Enter ‘Start date’ -Students are only able to submit once the start date and time has passed 13. Enter ‘Due date’ -Student will be blocked from submitting papers after the due date 14. Click ‘Optional setting’

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15. Click ‘View’ link in the ACTIONS column 16. Click on the “% of similarity” in the SIMILARITY column to the details of the report On the instructor homepage, click on the çlass name’ e.g. Turnitin Class

Your thesis/assignment Match overview to the sources Download & Print the report Total % of similarity report

Your thesis/assignment Match overview to the sources Print report Download the report Total % of similarity report Breakdown similarity report by sources

From the ‘Match overview’ box, click on selected sources 18. Click on the “Exclude Sources” button. - The sources that were excluded (e.g:1%) affects to the Similarity Index, it will recalculate and display a new percentage

19 ‘Exclude Bibliography’ -supervisor can remove the reference list or bibliography from the similarity index ‘Exclude Quotes’ - Text that appears between quotation marks in a paper. indentation or direct quotation marks (“”) begin and end the quotation. ‘Exclude matches’ - Can exclude the matches either word count or by percentage. The matches that are less than (number of words) or (% of the text in a match ) will not be include in the similarity index. This feature can be adjusted any time.