Transcript UNM Turnitin Instructor Training

Turnitin at UNM
Stephen Burd ([email protected])
Associate Professor, ASM
Provost’s Academic Technology Liaison
Presentation copies available online
http://averia.unm.edu
Last revised: 7/8/2015 12:42 AM
Brief History
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2010/2011 - College of Education and School of
Management acquire separate licenses for Turnitin
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2013 - Faculty technology survey identified antiplagiarism software as a high acquisition priority
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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
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License and Cost Details
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iThenticate
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Purchased by UNM Research Office ($30K)
Free use by UNM users
Authorized users – all faculty, staff, and students
http://iThenticate.unm.edu
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
 http://Turnitin.unm.edu
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Both licenses to be renegotiated for Fall 2015.
Common University Use Cases
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Instructional - Turnitin
 Students check works such as term papers prior to
submission
 Faculty members check works submitted by students
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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
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Institutional - iThenticate
 Institutions check Masters theses and PhD dissertations
 Institutions check their own publicly-accessible web sites
and document repositories
What is Plagiarism Detection?
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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”
Sample Originality Report
Plagiarism Detection
Capabilities and Limitations
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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
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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
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As with any tool, automated plagiarism detection can
be well-used or misused and training is essential to
achieving the best outcomes
Additional Turnitin Functions
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Using different tools for different assignment-related
purposes can be confusing and inefficient for
instructors an students
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Combining anti-plagiarism with additional assignmentrelated functions lessens the “pain” of learning/using a
new tool
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Turnitin additional functions include:
 Online submission and resubmission - well-implemented
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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
Accessing the Services
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iThenticate
 Accessed as an online application (i.e., a Web
application or software as a service)
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http://www.ithenticate.com
Turnitin
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Accessed as an online application (i.e., a Web application or
software as a service)
 http://www.Turnitin.com
 Accessed as a tool/service embedded within UNM
Learn or other learning management systems (e.g.,
Canvas, Moodle, and Desire2Learn)
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http://learn.unm.edu
Getting Help
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http://www.turnitin.com/en_us/training/instructor-training
Getting Help - Continued
Getting Help - Continued
Login
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http://www.turnitin.com/en_us/login
Instructor Home – All Classes
Instructor Home – Dashboard
About Turnitin Classes
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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
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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
About Turnitin Class Types
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Standard class
 Single section taught by a single instructor without TA
or grader assistance
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Master class
 Multiple sections with identical assignments but
different rosters
 Enables grading and management functions to be
delegated to another instructor, TA, or grader
Adding A Class
Adding A Class - Continued
Adding A Class - Confirmation
Navigate to Class Home Page
Class Home Page for Newly Created Class
About Turnitin Assignments
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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
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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
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Only those that can be checked for originality
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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
Adding An Assignment
Adding An Assignment - Continued
Turnitin Assignments – Optional Settings
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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
Adding An Assignment
Defining Optional Settings
About Originality Reports
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Originality reports contain information about
matches between submission content and various
source databases including:
 Internet-accessible content
 Publisher databases
 Student paper repositories
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Originality reports contain a similarity index
 A percentage of “unoriginal content”
 Lower score is “better”?
Sample Originality Report
and Overview Video
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Overview video
 http://www.turnitin.com/en_us/training/instructortraining/viewing-originality-reports
Interpreting the Similarity Score
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Does a high similarity index equal plagiarism or a
poor grade?
 Is “unoriginal material” cited properly?
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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?
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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?
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See sample –
http://averia.unm.edu/MGMT337/Current/General/HonestyPolicy.html
Is it linked to your course home page and all relevant
assignments?
Using Originality Reports - Advice
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Consider Turnitin to be a tool for identifying some instances of
potential plagiarism
 The tool will generate false positives and negatives
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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
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Summary – the tool is simply that – a tool – not a substitute for
your own judgment or follow-up effort
Originality Report Settings – Key Issues
Student Access
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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
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 No, or yes but not until it’s too late for correction and
resubmission
Gotcha !?
 Now what?
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Which approach should you adopt?
Originality Report Settings – Key Issues
Reporting Content
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What is included/excluded from “matches”?
 Most significant issue is whether the global student
repository is searched
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Best way to catch reused and purchased papers
 Exclude bibliographic material from Similarity Index for
all papers in this assignment?
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Are bibliographic similarities originality/plagiarism issues?
 Exclude quoted material from Similarity Index for all
papers in this assignment?
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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!
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Originality Report Settings – Key Issues
Adding Student Submissions to Repository
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Repository options – Store student papers in:
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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
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License terms limit iParadigms use to generating originality reports
 You and/or your students may not consider this fair use
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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
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Your thoughts?
Enrolling Students - Options
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Self-registration
 Simplest method
 Instructor sends an email 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
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Instructor registration
 One-at-a-time
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Instructor inputs name and email address
Student email notification is automatically generated
To see what students see – enroll yourself using your primary or
an alternate email address
 Bulk upload
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Word, text, or Excel
Same info as one-at-a-time
Specific formatting requirements
Registration Confirmation Email
Switch to Student View
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Only if you’re registered as a student
Student Class Home Page
Setup For Demonstration
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Switch back to instructor view
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Edit assignment settings
 Change start and post dates to yesterday
 Turn on submission to student repository
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Download/save sample paper
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http://averia.unm.edu/MGMT337/Archive/2005AndEarlier/ResearchProject/SamplePapers/GigabitEthernet.pdf
Switch back to student view
Submission Process – Step 1a
Submission Process – Step 1b
Submission Process – Step 2a
Submission Process – Step 2b
Submission Process – Step 3 - Confirmation
Submission Process –Confirmation Email
Student View After Assignment Submission
Instructor View After Assignment Submission
Viewing Assignment Submissions
About Grading & Reviewing Submissions
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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
GradeMark Key Features
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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
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General comments – Text, voice, or both
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Rubric – if attached
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Grade (top right corner)
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