1. Stephen Burd (burd@unm.edu) Presentation copies available online
Turnitin at UNM
 Stephen Burd
Associate Professor, ASM
Provost’s Academic Technology Liaison
Presentation copies available online
Last revised: 10/13/2018 6:37 PM

2. Brief History
2010/ College of Education and School of Management acquire separate licenses for Turnitin
Faculty technology survey identified anti-plagiarism software as a high acquisition priority
2013
Provost forms working group to select and implement a campus-wide anti-plagiarism tool(s)
iParadigms was selected and 2 tools were licensed through August 2015:
Turnitin – for instructional/classroom use
iThenticate – for research/publication use

3. License and Cost Details
iThenticate
Purchased by UNM Research Office ($30K)
Free use by UNM users
Authorized users – all faculty, staff, and students
Turnitin
Purchased jointly by UNM Research Office and VP for Health Sciences ($50K each)
Free use by health sciences instructors
Chargeback for use by other instructors - $100 per instructor per year
Authorized users – all instructors (including TAs) and up to 16,500 students
Both licenses to be renegotiated for Fall 2015.

4. Common University Use Cases
Instructional - Turnitin
Students check works such as term papers prior to submission
Faculty members check works submitted by students
Research-oriented - iThenticate
Faculty members check their own articles prior to submission to a conference or journal
Faculty members serving as reviewers or editors check conference or journal submissions
Faculty members and/or institutions check grant proposals
Institutional - iThenticate
Institutions check Masters theses and PhD dissertations
Institutions check their own publicly-accessible web sites and document repositories

5. What is Plagiarism Detection?
Modern plagiarism detection software/services perform the following functions:
Search for similar or identical text on the web, in some publication databases, and in document repositories
Annotate the document to identify matched text
Add clickable links or provide a side-by-side view of the online matched material
Optionally report an originality or plagiarism “score”

6. Sample Originality Report

7. Plagiarism Detection Capabilities and Limitations
Anti-plagiarism tools:
Work well with text
Search documents in multiple languages
Can detect some but not all text matches of documents in one language with sources in different languages
Tool limitations include:
Misses some text matches and can generate false positives
Images and sounds aren’t matched
Aren’t easily applied to larger bodies of work including document collections, web sites, and blogs
As with any tool, automated plagiarism detection can be well-used or misused and training is essential to achieving the best outcomes

8. Additional Turnitin Functions
Using different tools for different assignment-related purposes can be confusing and inefficient for instructors an students
Combining anti-plagiarism with additional assignment-related functions lessens the “pain” of learning/using a new tool
Turnitin additional functions include:
Online submission and resubmission - well-implemented
Draft and final submission commenting – well-implemented
Grammar/style checking – still a few bugs in the system
Peer review – looks good but I haven’t used it
Grading/Rubrics – looks good but I haven’t used it

9. Accessing the Services
iThenticate
Accessed as an online application (i.e., a Web application or software as a service)
Turnitin
Accessed as a tool/service embedded within UNM Learn or other learning management systems (e.g., Canvas, Moodle, and Desire2Learn)

10. Getting Help

11. Getting Help - Continued

12. Getting Help - Continued

13. Login

14. Instructor Home – All Classes

15. Instructor Home – Dashboard

16. About Turnitin Classes
Classes are the basic unit of organization for assignments and students
Turnitin classes should actually be thought of as UNM course sections – having:
A fixed start and end date
A roster of enrolled students
A name that identifies the course and semester
For courses taught over multiple semesters:
Create a new class each semester (or copy an old class and give it a new name)
Copy assignments from previous/other classes as needed

17. About Turnitin Class Types
Standard class
Single section taught by a single instructor without TA or grader assistance
Master class
Multiple sections with identical assignments but different rosters
Enables grading and management functions to be delegated to another instructor, TA, or grader

18. Adding A Class

19. Adding A Class - Continued

20. Adding A Class - Confirmation

21. Navigate to Class Home Page

22. Class Home Page for Newly Created Class

23. About Turnitin Assignments
Basic assignment features:
Title - Should be obvious to instructors and students
Start/stop date/times – Submissions are only allowed between these date/times
Post date
Date after which students can view comments and grades
Set before due date if you want to comment drafts and allow resubmission
Allowed file types
Only those that can be checked for originality
Microsoft Word® (DOC and DOCX)
Corel WordPerfect® (WPD)
HTML
Adobe PostScript®,
Plain text (TXT) and Rich Text Format (RTF)
Adobe Acrobat - Portable Document Format (PDF)
Hangul (HWP)
Powerpoint (PPT, PPTS, and PPS)
All – You can still provide general (but not embedded) comments

24. Adding An Assignment

25. Adding An Assignment - Continued

26. Turnitin Assignments – Optional Settings
Click the Optional settings button to set features in the following categories:
Late submission – enables submission after due date but not if an on-time submission already exists
Originality reports – see following slides
Grammar/style checking – various settings
Rubric use
Save settings as defaults for future assignments – very handy once you’ve tuned settings to your liking

27. Adding An Assignment Defining Optional Settings

28. About Originality Reports
Originality reports contain information about matches between submission content and various source databases including:
Internet-accessible content
Publisher databases
Student paper repositories
Originality reports contain a similarity index
A percentage of “unoriginal content”
Lower score is “better”?

29. Sample Originality Report and Overview Video

30. Interpreting the Similarity Score
Does a high similarity index equal plagiarism or a poor grade?
Is “unoriginal material” cited properly?
Turnitin can’t tell you
Do your students know how to properly cite?
How much properly cited material is allowed in an A/B/C/F paper?
That’s your choice - should be clearly communicated in the assignment instructions
Do you have a specific honesty or plagiarism policy for your school, department, or course?
See sample –
Is it linked to your course home page and all relevant assignments?

31. Using Originality Reports - Advice
Consider Turnitin to be a tool for identifying some instances of potential plagiarism
The tool will generate false positives and negatives
The instructor/TA/grader needs to:
Examine the evidence and decide whether it constitutes plagiarism
Determine how similarity (proper or improper) impacts grade
Watch for missed matches (e.g., passages that sound too sophisticated/polished, style mismatches, …)
The tool streamlines the processes of identifying suspect submissions and follow-up investigation
Similarity indices can be used to identify targets for investigation (e.g., above a certain percentage or the top few percentage values)
Matches are visually summarized and paired to sources
Source material can be viewed with a single click in most cases
Summary – the tool is simply that – a tool – not a substitute for your own judgment or follow-up effort

32. Originality Report Settings – Key Issues Student Access
Can students see them (and when)?
Yes, ASAP – students can see and “correct” their own mistakes – Multiple schools of thought:
Teaching tool for students to learn what is plagiarism and how to avoid it
Teaching tool for student to improve their plagiarism skills
A way of keeping trouble out of the instructor’s inbox
No, or yes but not until it’s too late for correction and resubmission
Gotcha !?
Now what?
Which approach should you adopt?

33. Originality Report Settings – Key Issues Reporting Content
What is included/excluded from “matches”?
Most significant issue is whether the global student repository is searched
Best way to catch reused and purchased papers
Exclude bibliographic material from Similarity Index for all papers in this assignment?
Are bibliographic similarities originality/plagiarism issues?
Exclude quoted material from Similarity Index for all papers in this assignment?
Note that quotation doesn’t imply proper citation
Exclude small matches
Word count – match must equal/exceed this size (default is 5)
Percentage – useless in most cases, avoid!

34. Originality Report Settings – Key Issues Adding Student Submissions to Repository
Repository options – Store student papers in:
The standard paper repository
The institution paper repository – disabled at UNM
No repository
Allow students to choose between the standard paper repository or the institution paper repository – disabled at UNM
Arguments against
You’re enabling iParadigms to “make money off of student papers” without compensating the students
License terms limit iParadigms use to generating originality reports
You and/or your students may not consider this fair use
Arguments for
UNM does its part to detect intra- and inter-institution plagiarism
The most recent (and highest) court ruling considers this fair use
UNM policy currently being updated to specifically allow this use
Your thoughts?

35. Enrolling Students - Options
Self-registration
Simplest method
Instructor sends an message to students with the class ID number and the enrollment password
Student creates their own account (or uses an existing one) and registers for the course
Instructor registration
One-at-a-time
Instructor inputs name and address
Student notification is automatically generated
To see what students see – enroll yourself using your primary or an alternate address
Bulk upload
Word, text, or Excel
Same info as one-at-a-time
Specific formatting requirements

36. Registration Confirmation Email

37. Switch to Student View
Only if you’re registered as a student

38. Student Class Home Page

39. Setup For Demonstration
Switch back to instructor view
Edit assignment settings
Change start and post dates to yesterday
Turn on submission to student repository
Download/save sample paper
Switch back to student view

40. Submission Process – Step 1a

41. Submission Process – Step 1b

42. Submission Process – Step 2a

43. Submission Process – Step 2b

44. Submission Process – Step 3 - Confirmation

45. Submission Process –Confirmation Email

46. Student View After Assignment Submission

47. Instructor View After Assignment Submission

48. Viewing Assignment Submissions

49. About Grading & Reviewing Submissions
There are three possible views of a submission (see upper left corner of screen):
Originality – Display/manipulate originality report
GradeMark – Used for commenting and grading with or without a rubric
PeerMark – Used for reviewing peer comments

50. GradeMark Key Features
Embedded comments – 2 types
Write your own – click anywhere (or select text) and start typing
Drag-and-drop (QuickMarks)
Drag comments from right frame to anywhere in the paper
Choose from different libraries of comments
Save your own
General comments – Text, voice, or both
Rubric – if attached
Grade (top right corner)

51. Turnitin With UNM Learn

52. Turnitin With UNM Learn