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About Turnitin

Turnitin evaluates written work for text "originality." It compares the text submitted in an assignment to a repository of student work, websites, and academic publications. It returns a score that shows what percent of the submitted work matches existing publications.

Turnitin evaluates written work for text "originality." It compares the text submitted in an assignment to a repository of student work, websites, and academic publications. It returns a score that shows what percent of the submitted work matches existing publications.

Things to know about Turnitin:

♦ Turnitin needs to be enabled on an onCampus assignment before students start turning in their work; it can't be applied to an assignment retroactively.
♦ When an assignment is connected to Turnitin, students will see a notice on their assignment form stating it will undergo plagiarism checks by Turnitin.

Teaching with Turnitin

Turnitin Draft Coach is an excellent tool to help students learn referencing skills. This Google Docs add-on flags citations that are missing references and references without citations, and coaches students on how to fix their errors. 

Click this link to access a Draft Coach powerpoint training for teachers to use with students. 

Integrating Turnitin with onCampus

1. Add Turnitin to an onCampus Assignment

  • Go to Assignments, then +Assignment
  • Set up the assignment as usual, but under File Submission, select Turnitin
  • Save

2. Configure Turnitin Settings

  • Select Turnitin Setup
  • Click Setup, then Settings

See Recommended Practices for integrating Turnitin with onCampus

Recommended Assignment Settings

Always Select...

  • Standard paper repository
    • All papers submitted to the repository become part of Turnitin's comparison database. If a student's paper is uploaded to the database, the paper will show 100% similarity. Turnitin Draft Coach allows students to view their similarity score without adding the paper to the repository.
  • Allow submission of any file type
  • Compare against 
  • Allow late submissions

Deselect...

  • Exclude bibliographic materials
  • Exclude quoted materials
  • Exclude small sources