Transcript Guide for Supervisor/Instructor - upm

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT DIVISION, PSAS
2013
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Turnitin is a suite of educational tools for digital
assessment and plagiarism prevention.
To Deter Plagiarism
To Hold Students
Accountable
To Determine The
Similarity Of Text
To Sources
To Enhance Teaching &
Student Learning
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Matching passages from
12+ billion Internet web
pages: updated at a rate of
million pages/day
Create Originality
Report
Matching passages from
millions of Books,
Journals, Newspapers
Matching passages
from millions of
Student Papers or
Client Node
Compare matching
passages to original
manuscript or article
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WHAT TURNITIN SEARCHES?
A current and archived copy of the publicly accessible Internet
(more than 12 billion pages indexed)
90 millions of student papers submitted to Turnitin since 1996
Millions of published works from ProQuest, Emerald, EbscoHost,
Gale Cengage, Thomson Reuters, Science Direct, ABC-CLIO,
The Gutenburg Collection and CrossRef (CrossCheck).
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Visit the library
website:http://www.lib.upm.edu.my
Click here
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 START by log in to Turnitin with your
e-mail address and password
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 Adding a class
1. Click “Ädd
Class” button
to create a
class
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2. Select class type
= ‘Standard’
3. Enter a ‘Çlass
Name’ &
‘enrollment
password’
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4. Select appropriate
subject area(s) and
student level(s)
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5. Select ‘çlass end
date’. Paper cannot
be submitted after
this date
6. Click ‘submit’
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7. The class will
now appear in
your class list
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Important!
Class ID and
Enrollment
password should
be distributed to
your student
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8. Click ‘New
Assignment’
button to create
an assignment
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9. Select ‘Paper
Assignment’
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10. Click ‘Next
Step’
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11. Enter
‘Assignment title’
12. Enter ‘Start
date’
- Students are
only able to
submit once the
start date and
time has passed
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13. Enter ‘Due
date’
- Student will be
blocked from
submitting
papers after the
due date
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14. Click ‘Optional
setting’
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On the instructor homepage, click on the çlass name’ e.g. Turnitin Class
15. Click ‘View’
link in the
ACTIONS column
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16. Click on the “%
of similarity” in the
SIMILARITY column
to the details of
the report
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Your thesis/assignment
Total % of similarity
report
Match overview to
the sources
Download
& Print
the report
Breakdown
similarity report by
sources
Total % of similarity
report
Your thesis/assignment
Match overview to
the sources
Print report
Download
the report
17. From the ‘Match
overview’ box, click
on selected sources
18. Click on the
“Exclude Sources”
button.
- The sources that
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were excluded
(e.g:1%) affects to the
Similarity Index, it will
recalculate and
display a new
percentage.
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‘Exclude Quotes’
- Text that appears between
quotation marks in a paper.
indentation or direct
quotation marks (“”) begin
and end the quotation.
‘Exclude Bibliography’
-supervisor can remove the
reference list or bibliography
from the similarity index
This feature can be adjusted
any time.
‘Exclude matches’
- Can exclude the matches
either word count or by
percentage. The matches that
are less than (number of
words) or (% of the text in a
match ) will not be include in
the similarity index.
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