2. Welcome to the Turnitin.com Faculty Quickstart Tutorial ! This brief tour will take you through the basic steps teachers and students new to Turnitin.com will need to get set up and submitting papers. More detailed instructions are available by downloading the Turnitin.com user manuals from our website. This is the Turnitin.com home page. From here, potential users can navigate through a variety of screens to learn more about our service. It is also the point of entry for all registered users of Turnitin.com, who enter our system using the "user login" button.

3. Logging In This is the Turnitin.com login page. You will need to access this page every time you begin a new session with Turnitin.com. New users must first create a user profile by clicking on "New user? Click here to get started" and following the step-by-step instructions. During this process, you will enter your email address and create a password, which will constitute your user profile. When you are finished, return to the login page. Every Turnitin.com user is one of four user types: Student, Faculty, Administrator, or Free Trial. Before logging in, you must select the appropriate user type. As an instructor, select "faculty" as your user type. Next, enter your email address and password, and then click "submit" to access your faculty home page.

4. Faculty Homepage The first time you login as a faculty user, your faculty homepage will not contain any active classes. Before you can create classes and submit papers to Turnitin.com, you will need to join an active account. If you have an individual account with Turnitin.com, you will be the account administrator and will already have the information necessary to join. If, however, you are part of an institutional account, you will need to contact your account administrator and secure the account ID and account join password for your institution's account. Once you have this information, click on "join new account" to join a Turnitin.com account.

5. Joining a Turnitin.com Account This is the "join new account" page. You will use this page to enter your account ID and account join password. After you enter this information, click on "submit" to take you to your revised homepage, which will now show that you have enrolled in an active Turnitin.com account.

6. Revised Faculty Homepage Your revised faculty homepage now shows your new account. In this example, it is an account at The New Art College. The account in which you actually enroll will reflect the name of your institution's account. The next step is to create a class. The classes you create at Turnitin.com can correspond with the classes you teach or can be created simply to organize your submissions to Turnitin.com. To create a new class, click on "add class."

7. Class Add/Update Page The class add/update page, allows you to add or update a class. You will be asked to enter the class name as it will appear on your class list. You will also need to select a class enrollment password, which students will use when enrolling in this class. Next, select the level of the class you are creating from the class level menu. Finally, you may enter an optional class number and class description for your class. Note: It is important to remember that the class number is not the class ID number that students will use to enroll in this class; that number is generated by Turnitin.com and appears next to the name of each class on your homepage.

8. This is your new homepage, which now reflects your active account and the class you just created. To enter the class and access your class inbox, click on the class name. You can also click on the "U" icon if you want to update the information for this particular class. Clicking on the "A" icon will archive this class and remove it from your list of active classes. Important: the five-digit number in red is the class ID for this class. When students enroll in this class, they will need this number in addition to the class enrollment password you created. You may access this password at any time by clicking on the "U" icon next to your class or by clicking on the "stats" link from your class preferences.

9. This is your class inbox. Every class has its own class inbox, which is accessible by clicking on the name of a class on your homepage. Because no papers have been submitted to this class, the inbox is currently empty. The next step before either you or your students can submit a paper is to create an assignment. To create an assignment, click on the "assignments" button on the account navigation bar. Remember: All papers submitted to Turnitin.com, whether by you or your students, must be submitted to a given assignment within a given class.

10. This is the "assignments" page, which displays all the assignments you have created for this class. Currently, this class has no assignments. To create a new assignment, click on the appropriate link.

11. This is the assignment creation page, which allows you to create new assignments or modify old ones. Each assignment must have a start and due date. The start date specifies when the assignment will become available to students, while the due date indicates when the assignment is due. You can also enter a specific assignment description and additional assignment instructions, which students will be able to view from their own Turnitin.com assignments page. Please note that this information is optional. When you are done, click on the "submit" button.

12. This is your revised assignments page, which now shows your recently created assignment. If you ever need to revise the assignment information, click on the "U" button next to the assignment you wish to update. Once an assignment has been created, you or your students may submit papers to Turnitin.com. If you choose to submit an assignment for your students, click on the "turn it in!" button on the account navigation bar. If your students are going to submit assignments themselves, they will need to enroll in your class using the class ID and class enrollment password you created. Note: You will be able to delete an assignment using the "trash can" icon as long as no papers have been submitted to that assignment. Once a paper has been submitted to a given assignment, it can no longer be removed.

13. Submitting papers It is important to remember that there are two ways to submit papers to Turnitin.com: students may submit papers individually, or teachers may submit papers for their students. In this case, you are submitting the paper for a student, Fred Hoiberg. As you can see, the student's name and ID number have been added, the paper has been given a title, and "assignment 1" has been selected. The paper's text is then pasted into the main text box by copying it from a digital source, such as MS Word, and pasting it into the appropriate box. Additional information, such as an abstract or bibliography, can also be pasted in at this time. Clicking on "submit" uploads the paper to Turnitin.com. We then send off a digital receipt confirming the submission and begin processing an Originality Report. Originality Reports become accessible from your inbox within 24 hours.

14. This is your revised class inbox, which now shows the paper you just submitted. As of yet the report is not ready. When the report is finished, (within 24-30 hours) the black "overall similarity index" box on the far left will change color to reflect this paper's score, and an "Originality Report" icon will appear in the "R" column next to the paper's date of submission. The following page shows the same paper after the report has been processed. Note: Here, the student's name appears in red, and is not linkable. This indicates that this paper was submitted by a faculty member. If the student had submitted this paper, the name would appear in blue, and would link to a page containing a list of all the student's submissions to date.

15. The class inbox now shows the paper's similarity score (the red box to the left) and the "Originality Report" icon (just right of the date the paper was submitted). You can view the Originality Report for any paper by clicking on the "report" icon. Clicking on the "paper" icon to the left shows the paper as it was submitted, before it was analyzed in our system. Typically, your inbox for any given class will display all the papers and results your students have submitted in a given semester or year. Your inbox functions much like the inboxes in many popular email programs, and allows you to sort results by a variety of criteria. Details on the advanced functions of the report inbox can be found in our user manuals, or on our online help pages.

16. This is the detailed Originality Report for the submitted paper. As you can see, this paper received a high "overall similarity index," which means we found matching online sources for over 80% of the paper. The red text corresponds with material that can be found by clicking on the displayed link. Often, a paper has matches to more than one online source; in such cases all relevant addresses are displayed and linked to their online location. Users also have the option of clicking on "dsc", or "direct source comparison." This function not only opens up a new window to the suspect source, but also underlines specific matching passages, making comparison easy. For detailed explanations of other Originality Report functions, please consult our user manuals.

17. This page shows two overlapping browser windows. The top window is opened to the Originality Report from the preceding page. The bottom window shows the results after clicking on "direct source comparison." The website that it links to happens to be from a university site in Germany. Note how the text is identical; the matching passages have all been underlined. Every source uncovered by our search is linked and can be easily viewed in this manner with the direct source comparison function.

18. Student Submissions If you elect to have students submit their papers directly to your class, each student in your class will have to create a personal user profile, just as you did. This page shows a student logging in to Turnitin.com. Having students create their own profiles has many advantages; in addition to relieving you of the task of submitting papers individually, students can keep organized records of all their submissions for any number of classes. Additionally, submitting papers to your class enables students to take advantage of Peer Review, a feature that allows students to read and evaluate their classmates' work in a secure, anonymous forum.

19. This is a student's homepage. The first time a student logs in, his or her homepage will look like this. As you can see, this student has not yet enrolled in any classes. A student enrolls in a class by clicking on the "join new class" button on the account navigation bar. Note: Before your students attempt to enroll a class, make sure they have the class ID (the number in red next to each class on your faculty homepage) and the class enrollment password, which you selected when creating the class. If you forgot this password, simply click on the "U" icon next to your class from your faculty homepage or click on the "stats" link from your class preferences.

20. This is the student class enrollment page. Here, a student enters the class ID and class enrollment password for your class. After the student clicks "submit", your class will be added to that student's class list on his or her homepage.

21. This is the student's revised homepage. The student can now access his or her class portfolio by clicking on its title in his or her class list. Note: Students can delete any class by using the "trash can" icon as long as no papers have been submitted to the class. Once a paper has been submitted to a given class, the class can no longer be removed.

22. This is the student's class portfolio, which shows a record of all the papers submitted for a given class. Currently, this student's class portfolio is empty because no papers have been submitted. Students submit papers from this page by clicking on the "turn it in!" button on the account navigation bar.

23. This is the student paper submission page. As you can see, the student has entered a title for his or her submission and selected "assignment 1" from the assignment menu. Remember: Every submission, whether by you or your students, must correspond with a given assignment. The main text of the paper is copied from any recognized digital format (such as an MS Word document) and pasted into the "main text" box. Students can also add an abstract and bibliography if desired. After the student clicks on the "submit" button, the paper is sent to us, we process the paper, and then generate an Originality Report, which is sent to your report inbox. The student also receives a digital receipt that serves as confirmation of their submission.

24. This is the student's digital receipt. The student can print this page for his or her records. A second copy of the receipt is also emailed to the student. The student can then confirm that his or her paper has been received by viewing it in his or her class portfolio.

25. This is the student's revised class portfolio, which now shows a record of the paper just submitted. An optional feature of Turnitin.com is the ability to allow students to view the results of their own Originality Reports. This feature is turned on or off by faculty on an individual class basis. Were this feature activated, an "Originality Report" icon would appear to the left of each paper's title in this student's class portfolio.

26. Thanks for taking the time to learn the basics of Turnitin.com. The goal of this presentation was to help you get up and running quickly; there are many advanced functions not touched upon here that are explained in greater depth online and in our user manuals. If you experience any difficulties getting started and can’t find the answers here or at our website, our helpdesk (helpdesk@turnitin.com) is available 24 hours to help you with any problems.helpdesk@turnitin.com Again, thanks for supporting us in the ongoing fight against digital plagiarism. Good luck!