A Quick Intro and Demo Michael D. Martinez Department of Political Science October 12, 2009

 A little bit of “why”  A bigger bit on “how” ◦ How to access Turnitin  E-Learning  Stand-alone ◦ Turnitin input and options ◦ Turnitin output  A little bit of “what to do if you detect a problem”  Optional: My “Plagiarism” lecture to students

◦ Source: “Plagiarism”. New World Encyclopedia. ◦

 An electronic in-box for student assignments  An archive of student authored papers that have been submitted to Turnitin  A program to help instructors evaluate the originality of submitted papers

 Turnitin compares the text of each submitted paper against … ◦ All papers that were previously submitted and archived ◦ Many journal articles that are electronically available ◦ Searchable web sources  Turnitin returns an originality report to the instructor highlighting passages that “match” other works.  Turnitin does not pass nor fail students. It simply helps instructors find potential originality problems.

 Through E-Learning ◦ This is what I usually use ◦ Each semester, apply for an E-Learning course ◦ Turnaround is usually less that an day, often much less  Through the Turnitin site ◦ Still have to apply through UF, because UF licenses the use of Turnitin

  Login … Select your class  E-Learning has three views ◦ Build ◦ Teach ◦ Student  You’ll want to be in Build view to use Turnitin

 I make a separate folder for Paper Submissions ◦ Add Content Link ◦ Turnitin assignment ◦ Create assignment ◦ Give it a name “Observation Paper” ◦ Assignment title “Observation Paper” ◦ Point Value “100” ◦ Start Date ◦ Due Date ◦ Post Date ◦ More options ◦ Submit

 Switch to Teach Mode  Click on that assignment  Class list appears

  Login … Add a class  Give it a name and enrollment password ◦ Which you will also give your students, as they will have to enroll themselves  I made a class for ◦ Misc Papers I need to check  The assignment here is ◦ Misc paper

 Gives overall percentage match  Shows submitted paper  Shows sources of possible matches

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 I can show these now, if anyone is interested ◦ and/or  me if you’d like to plagiarize my slides.