1. Use Turnitin – Help Improve Student Writing Center for Distance Education Instructional Design Services Dr. Prasanthi Pallapu

2. Objectives Turnitin – Why? – Uses – What? Associate Turnitin to Dropbox View Turnitin ‘Similarity Index’ Use of ‘Draft Turnitin Dropbox’

3. Why? Plagiarism Spectrum – 10 types of unoriginal work http://turnitin.com/assets/en_us/media/plagiarism_ spectrum.php

4. Uses Students – to improve writing skills – for better learning encourages to cite resources Educators – to help and encourage students – use it as a learning tool (not for penalizing) – for informed evaluation of student work

5. Turnitin Cloud-based service Is integrated into our learning management system Does NOT detect plagiarism. Finds text that matches other sources in the Turnitin databases – regardless of whether or not the text was properly cited.

6. Sources Compares students’ submissions to find matching text Three vast databases of content from three primary sources 1.The current and archived Web 2.Student papers 3.Content Partnerships

7. Sources 1.The current and archived Web – Searches over 45 billion web pages 2.Student papers – 50% of plagiarism comes from other student’s work – Compares over 337 million papers 3.Content Partnerships – Over 130 million articles – Library databases, text-book publishers, digital reference collections etc. http://turnitin.com/en_us/features/originalitycheck/content

8. Search Targets student paper repository - works previously submitted in classes and assignments on Turnitin institution paper repository - a repository of student papers for the institution current and archived internet - a repository of archived and live publicly available internet pages http:// turnitin.com/en_us/training/instructor-training/creating-assignments

9. Search Targets periodicals, journals, & publications - third party periodical, journal, and publication content including many major professional journals, periodicals, and business publications http:// turnitin.com/en_us/training/instructor-training/creating-assignments

10. Repository Options standard paper repository institution paper repository no repository – Ideal to use for ‘Draft Turnitin Dropbox’

11. Originality Report /Similarity Index http://turnitin.com/en_us/training/student-training/about-originalitycheck

12. File Types & Size File Types – http://turnitin.com/en_us/training/instructor- training/submitting-papers http://turnitin.com/en_us/training/instructor- training/submitting-papers File Size – Not to exceed 20 MB

13. Submissions in Dropbox

14. Demonstration Associate Turnitin to Dropbox – http://uiu.edu/distance/resources/documents/Associ ateTurnitin.pdf http://uiu.edu/distance/resources/documents/Associ ateTurnitin.pdf View Turnitin ‘Similarity Index’ – http://uiu.edu/distance/resources/Turnitin%20Access. pdf http://uiu.edu/distance/resources/Turnitin%20Access. pdf Use of Draft Turnitin Dropbox – Advanced Options No Repository option – http://turnitin.com/en_us/training/instructor- training/creating-assignments http://turnitin.com/en_us/training/instructor- training/creating-assignments

15. Demonstration

18. Resources Handouts – Dropbox: Turnitin – Dropbox: Turnitin Access http://uiu.edu/distance/resources/facultyplst utorials.html http://uiu.edu/distance/resources/facultyplst utorials.html

19. Resources on Turnitin.com Instructor Training – http://turnitin.com/en_us/training/instructor- training http://turnitin.com/en_us/training/instructor- training Students Questions – https://turnitin.com/static/resources/documentat ion/turnitin/sales/Answers_to_Questions_Student s_Ask.pdf https://turnitin.com/static/resources/documentat ion/turnitin/sales/Answers_to_Questions_Student s_Ask.pdf

20. Upper Iowa University Upper Iowa University www.uiu.edu CDE Professional Development Schedule

21. Upper Iowa University Upper Iowa University www.uiu.edu Center for Distance Education Education Services cdefaculty@uiu.edu Invitations to teach and course assignmentscdefaculty@uiu.edu eLearning Team elearning@uiu.edu Faculty training courses, academic course access, students enrollmentselearning@uiu.edu Instructional Design Services idservices@uiu.edu Online course design and development.idservices@uiu.edu UIU CDE Resources Website UIU CDE Faculty Tutorials Website