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Plagiarism-Detection Software Overview
Developed by Alex Wolfe, TurnItIn
Adapted with permission by Crystal Nielsen, NNU
www.turnitin.com
Turnitin’s Purpose
• To deter plagiarism
• To hold students accountable
• To determine the similarity of text to
sources
• To enhance teaching and student learning
Send students to Plagiarism.org, a sister site to
TurnItIn, for help in understanding plagiarism
The Premise: Digital Submission
Students or instructors submit papers digitally
through the TurnItIn application. This can be done
through TurnItIn.com or in ANGEL.
The Premise: Extensive Search
TurnItIn searches a number of sources for matches:
1. A current and archived copy of the publicly
accessible Internet (more than 13 billion
Web pages indexed)
2. Thousands of newspapers, magazines, books,
and scholarly journals
3. More than 130 million student papers
previously submitted to Turnitin since 1996
The Premise: Originality Report
TurnItIn returns a color-coded Originality Report to
the students or the instructor. A percentage shows
the extent of possible content matches.
Benefits
• Provides resources to assist in teaching
research and writing skills
• Deters plagiarism before it happens; provides
documentation if it does
• Saves time in the investigation of the
originality of student work
• Allows for efficient verification of works
cited
Three Ways to Use TII
• Through TurnItIn.com, by setting up
Assignment inboxes for students to submit
their own papers
• Through TurnItIn.com, by using the
QuickSubmit feature for you to simply
evaluate an occasional paper that seems
suspicious
• Through ANGEL, by setting up TurnItIn
assignments for student submission
Using TurnItIn.com
Assignments
If you plan to use TII extensively
• Contact NNU’s E-Learning
Services to request an account
• Log in and change your
temporary password
• Create Classes
• Create Assignments
• Your students submit papers
Using QuickSubmit
If you plan to use TII sparingly
• Contact NNU’s E-Learning
Services to request an account
• Log in and change your
temporary password
• Enable QuickSubmit
• You submit papers
Using ANGEL
• In ANGEL, go to a course
Content tab
• Create a TurnItIn Drop Box
• Use the Roster Sync feature
• Students submit papers
Further Help
• Visit the NNU Support Page for TurnItIn for video
tutorials and other resources.
• Visit TurnItIn.com’s Training site for more info.
Note that NNU only licenses OriginalityCheck and not
GradeMark or PeerMark.
•For new accounts or how-to questions not answered
above, contact E-Learning Services
([email protected] or 208-467-8034).
•For troubleshooting, contact NNU’s help desk,
Technology and Media Resources ([email protected] or
208-467-8111), or the TurnItIn Help Desk.