1. BRIEFING ON ‘TURNITIN’
27TH FEBRUARY 2014

2. What is turnitin? Turn-it-in
A computerized tool in ensuring that papers/reports written by student is free from plagiarism.

3. Why should we use turnitin
VAST DATABASE
20+ billion pages of web content
220 million student papers and publications
PREVENT PLAGIARISM
ENGAGE STUDENTS
A high Similarity Percentage will engage the students to take extra effort in trying to improve the report.

4. SIMILARITY PERCENTAGE for FYP is not more than 30%
Turnitin report will display the percentage of similarities based on:
Green : % of Similarity
Yellow : 25 – 49% of Similarity
Orange : % of Similarity
Red : 75 – 100% of Similarity
SIMILARITY PERCENTAGE for FYP is not more than 30%

5. HOW TO START USING TURNITIN?

6. 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
EXAMPLE:
Name of class: FYP1 S2_1314
Name of assignment: Report

7. You will receive a notification email from Turnitin

10. Click here
Name of FYP Coordinator

11. Assignment
Click submit to hand in your report

12. Click confirm button

14. 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.

15. Click on the SIMILARITY percentage – Another window will appear

17. FYP COORDINATOR’S PERSPECTIVE

22. Click on the SIMILARITY percentage – Another window will appear

24. Thank you