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Turnitin Student User Manual Chapter 1: Getting Started

1. Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 6 Chapter 1 Getting Started Section Logging In Resetting Your Password If a Turnitin user password is forgotten or the initial user welcome e mail is not received the password can be reset via secret question or e mail To reset a password via e mail your user information must contain a valid e mail address Turnitin cannot send password reset information to any other e mail cement 1 Go to www turnitin com tu r n ti n 2 Click on Retrieve password link Ari email address 3 Enter the e mail address associated with a Turnitin user profile and click on next secret question 4a Either select the secret question for the Please select a secret question E user profile and enter the answer in the field provided and click next question answer 4b Or if you do not know the secret question answer set for the user profile click the link below labeled Forgot the answer to have a link to a password reset sent via e mail enter password 5 On the password reset page you must enter a new password and log into Turnitin using the e mail and new AE EEEE password for your profile Email Password 6 Use the e mail and new password for your Create Account Retiave Password user profile to log into Turnitin Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 7
2. Chapter 1 Getting Started Section Logging In AWarning If you do not receive the e mail containing the password reset link make certain that the e mail service is not filtering this e mail from noreply turnitin com to your spam or junk mail Add noreply turnitin com to the e mail contact list or contact your e mail service for more information on ensuring this important password reset e mail is able to be received Enrolling in a Class The student homepage displays a list of any courses that the student user profile is enrolled in Newly created user profiles are automatically enrolled in the class associated with the class ID used to create the user profile A single user profile can be used to enroll in multiple classes Enrollment into additional classes can be completed once the user signs on as the student profile and is viewing the student user homepage Enrollment in additional classes on Turnitin will always require a valid class ID number and the case sensitive enrollment password for the class This information can only be distributed by the instructors Students may also receive a notification e mail from Turnitin indicating that they have been added to a new course by the instructor directly This new class will appear automatically on the student user homepage 1 Log into Turnitin with a student user Password SIGN IN profile Retieve Password Click on the enroll in a class tab on the student homepage
3. Turnitin Student User Manual Chapter 1 Getting Started Version 2 1 3 Updated August 1 2011 Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 1 Contents Chapter 1 Getting Started 1 Creating a New User Profile Resetting Your Password 7 Enrolling in a Class 8 Submitting a Paper 9 User Info Preferences Messages and Assistance 15 Chapter 2 OriginalityCheck 18 Introduction 19 Originality Reports 19 Opening the Originality Report 21 Chapter 3 PeerMark 28 Introduction 29 Writing Peer Reviews 30 Adding Comments to a Peer Review 33 Reading Peer Reviews 37 Chapter 4 GradeMark 41 Introduction 42 Viewing Marked Papers 42 Chapter 5 GradeBook 47 Introduction 48 Viewing Grades 48 Chapter 6 Discussion Boards 51 Introduction 52 Posting a Reply 53 Moderation 57 Chapter 7 Class Calendar 59 Introduction 60 Chapter 8 Glossary 62 Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 2 Chapter 1 Getting Started Section Introduction Introduction Welcome to Turnitin The purpose of this handbook is to provide an in depth guide to using Turnitin as a student Student users on Turnitin can enroll in classes and submit files to assignments Student users in classes on some accounts may also be able to Review the Originality Re
4. fields the numerical value for small matches that will be excluded from this Originality Report To turn off excluding small matches click on the radio button next to Don t exclude by size To save the settings click on the Apply Changes button at the bottom of the sidebar This feature can be adjusted at any time When a student closes an Originality Report after using the exclude small matches option the Originality Report will return to the assignment s default setting for excluding small matches and the students changes will not be saved Filters amp Settings EXCLUSIONS Exclude Quotes Exclude Bibliography Exclude matches that are less than words Don t exclude by size TT f Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 26 Chapter 2 Originality Checking Section Printing or Saving Reports Printing or Saving Reports The Originality Report can be downloaded to the user s computer for later reference To print download a report click on the print and download icon at the bottom of the Originality Report This will prepare a readable PDF version of the Originality Report When printing downloading the downloaded version created is based on the current view of Originality Report For example clicking print download while using the default Match Overview will create a PDF of only the highest matches Once a PDF version of the report has been saved
5. Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 72 Chapter 8 Glossary of active students in the selected account and any sub accounts which are drawing on the selected account for student limit availability upload list sending a Comma Separated Values CSV or Microsoft Excel document containing multiple sets of user information for bulk creation of student or instructor profiles Also the bulk addition of users to an account or class upload file the act of submitting or sending a file into a specific assignment within a Turnitin class for use with the Turnitin products selected for the class user agreement For access to Turnitin all users must accept the Turnitin user agreement presented during user profile creation or during the first login with the user profile The user agreement can be found by clicking on the link provided on the bottom of the page on the primary pages of the Turnitin website labeled usage policy user profile the user profile is a set of user preferences and information associated with a specific ID within Turnitin Each user profile requires a unique e mail address A specific e mail address can only be used once within the Turnitin database New attempts to create a profile associated with an e mail address currently existing in Turnitin will not succeed user password a user password is a six to twelve character case sensiti
6. Questions amp Answers COULD THE READABILITY CLARITY OR STYLE OF THIS PAPER BE IMPROVED HOW PW The paper was well written and the paragraphs flowed together nicely J51 Not really it was an easy read Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 39 Chapter 3 Peer Review Section Reviewer Mark List Reviewer Mark List To view a list of all the comments left on the paper click on the mark list icon The Comments List may be used to navigate to the location of a comment on the paper Simply hover the cursor over a mark in the comment list and then click on the show on paper link that appears Comments List Wow That s an interesting fact Ist Date it was discovered wonder how many still do Or if therOyme2 known scientists that think this way A Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 40 Turnitin Student User Manual Chapter 4 GradeMark Updated August 1 2011 Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 41 Chapter 4 GradeMark Section GradeMark Contents Introduction The GradeMark digital mark up tool allows instructors to mark and grade papers online in a paperless environment Instructors are able to create custom sets of comments and marks for grading as well as use rubric scorecards that feature quick
7. highlights can be created for each mark if there are multiple areas to reference Highlights may overlap E E i naani i ainia Lf hee r ae Leet A ations Click the Save button to save the comment The comment can be edited at any time by clicking on the mark symbol for the comment The Edit and trash icons will appear click on the edit icon or double click the mark to open up the comment box Edit the comment and click Save to save any changes made to the comment To move a comment click and hold on the mark symbol and drag the icon to a new location To delete a comment click on the trash icon in iia ing of the story floods the words with developed further in your paper YN Ey es Pk of the story or minutes afterwards tells ofc recounts his childhood with much warmth except for his Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 34 Chapter 3 Peer Review Section Inline Comments Inline Comments Inline comments allow students to add comments directly onto the paper The inline comment appears as type overlaid on the paper The student may select a color from the drop down menu for the inline comment To add an inline comment select the type tool from the Tools palette Select a color from the color pull down by clicking on the drop down menu for the type tool Really well TOOLS x Commenting experienced these x Pip the narrator were directly
8. or replicate existing assignments or peer reviews from one class to another libraries rubric the rubric library available from the instructor class homepage allows an instructor to create review edit or delete the marking rubrics available for a peer review Peer review rubrics are completely separate from GradeMark libraries of QuickMark editing and rubric scorecards libraries rubric scorecard QuickMark the rubric scorecard or QuickMark scoring marks created by a particular user These libraries allow a user to create edit apply copy move or delete rubric scorecards or QuickMark editing sets These libraries can be shared to section classes by a master class instructor An administrator Section Definitions can share these libraries to all instructors on a specific account list calendar a view mode of the calendar that lists all of the information on a class calendar for the current year This includes assignment information notes announcements and holidays log in the act of an authorized user entering the e mail address and personal password created for a user profile to enter Turnitin as the user associated with the e mail address entered messages a user tool bar menu link that leads to a page listing the current announcements and messages if any from Turnitin metric question peer review a metric question is create by instructors for students to assign ratings to a peer
9. paste 1 Start by clicking on the class name you class ID enter a class 2035960 Class Demo Section 1 would like to submit to after logging in to Turnitin 2 Click on the Submit button to the right of the assignment name 3 Select cut amp paste upload from the choose a paper submission method pull down menu 4 Fill in the submission title field and copy submission title the text from the text document This CB must be done from a word processor E able to open the file you wish to submit val mni pasie your paper content from Do not manually type m 7 an entire paper in the copy paste field which could cause the user login to time out losing all the entered data Tip To cut and paste text highlight the text of a paper in a word processing or text editing program and select copy from the edit menu To transfer the text into your browser place your mouse cursor in the text box of the submission page and select paste from your browser s edit menu Click submit to complete the cut and paste submission of the text pasted into submit the content box After the submission has been completed on step 5 a digital receipt is displayed on screen A copy is also sent via e mail to the address for the user login Save the receipt and the paper ID it contains as this is proof of a completed submission The digital receipt contains a unique paper ID number the n
10. scoring of student papers against a list of scaled criteria created by the instructor or educational institution Once the post date of a paper has passed students are able to access the marked version of the paper and view any grades comments marks or requested changes noted by the instructor d Tip If the GradeMark icon is not available the post date of the assignment has not been reached or the instructor has not yet graded or marked the paper Contact the instructor for further information Viewing Marked Papers To view a marked paper the student user will need to click on the Show details link next to the assignment and then click on the GradeMark icon The student GradeMark paper view will open in a separate window in which the student may view or print the grade and comment information Not all browsers will be able to display the complete features of the GradeMark product If a browser that is not fully supported is being used a notification will come up to inform the user Originality GradeMark Download B E GradeMark Contents GradeMark consists of e document viewer frame shows the Grade the title and author of the paper The similarity index will be displayed if the instructor has allowed students to view the Originality Report for the assignment e paper text the full content of the submitted paper including images as well as any marks made by the instructor e the GradeMark sidebar displays t
11. 1 Getting Started Section Assignment Types Assignment Types Instructors may create different assignment types based on the Turnitin products that have been purchased The full list of assignment types is e Paper Assignment the standard Turnitin assignment allowing students a single Submission of a file which can then be viewed by the instructor or used with other Turnitin products on the account e Revision Assignment a copy of a Paper Assignment which an instructor may create to allow for revisions or rewrites e Reflection Assignment an assignment for submitting self written assessment of the writing process of a Paper Assignment Based on a specific Paper Assignment e PeerMark Assignment an assignment which allows students to peer review the papers written by other students in a Paper Assignment Students are given free response and scale questions for the review Peer reviews may be anonymous and allow students to comment directly on the paper User Info Preferences Messages and Assistance The Turnitin student user homepage contains a number of links in the toolbar at the top that allow a user to change their profile and preference information or check for system wide announcements from Turnitin My Classes The HOME link returns a student user to their student user homepage and the list of classes in which the active user profile is currently enrolled From this page a user can enroll in new classes o
12. GAADE NDEX OUT OF 50 This draft is a good start but it can definitely be improved by revising your thesis and organizing your body paragraphs so that the paper reads through better Please read the comments have left on your paper when you begin your revision Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 44 Chapter 4 GradeMark Section Printing To view a full list of comments the student user must click on the comment list icon located at the bottom of the sidebar Clicking on the comment list icon opens a scrollable window of all comments or marks placed on the paper within the sidebar To view the location of a mark on the paper hover over a comment or mark in the comment list and click on the show on paper link that appears Expand All Collapse All PAGE 1 Ep Frag show on paper Fragment A sentence fragment is a phrase or clause that is in some way incomplete Such fragment The Grade is displayed in the top right corner of the document viewer If students are allowed to view the Originality Report for the assignment the Similarity Index will be displayed in the top right corner as well Printing To print a paper that has been graded by an instructor using the GradeMark product the student will need to open the GradeMark paper view Once the paper is open the student can click on the printer icon on the bottom of the viewing window C
13. Review Rate this review based on its helpfulness on a scale from 1 10 with 10 being the most helpful Ll wVEeLIv lal S Paper by Harry He by Turnitin Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 37 Chapter 3 Peer Review Section PeerMark in the Document Viewer PeerMark in the Document Viewer Students may view the peer reviews for their paper within the document viewer once the post date of a PeerMark assignment has passed To view the paper in the document viewer first click on the show details link for the paper assignment the peer review was based on and then click on the paper s title Paper Title Once the document viewer loads click on the PeerMark tab When the PeerMark service is active the sidebar will display a list of all the students who have reviewed the paper Greek Mythology Planet Report DUE Jan 12 What s New Help Paper 1of5 turniting amp 100 Pluto formal designation 134340 Pluto is the second largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System after Eris and the tenth largest body observed directly orbiting the Sun Originally classified as a planet Pluto is now considered the largest member of a distinct population known as the Kuiper belt Like other members of the Kuiper belt Pluto is composed primarily of rock and ice and is relatively small approximately a fifth the mass of th
14. Turnitin Creating a New User Profile If an instructor has added the student to a course and the student has received the automated notification e mail containing a temporary password or if the student has used Turnitin previously and has an existing user profile continue down to the Logging In section A Warning A class ID and enrollment password are required to enroll in a class on Turnitin This information may only be provided by the instructor of the class Turnitin cannot provide a class ID or enrollment password in any circumstances If you do not have this information contact the class instructor 1 Go to www turnitin com and click on the Create account link next to the Sign In button ETN Password Create Account Rebieve PFassworg Please select whether you will be using the service as ani student 2 Click on the student link instructor teaching assistant Create a New Turnitin Student Account class ID All students must be enrolled in an active class To enroll in a class please enter the 3 e The Create a New Turnitin Student class ID number and class enrollment password that you were given by your instructor Account form must be completed to ease note that the password and pincode are case sensitive If you do not have create a new student user account ae E class enrollment password class ID 4 Enter the class ID number and the case sensitive Turnitin class enrollment password c
15. a complex or frequently used grammar punctuation or formatting issue e a rubric the rubric scorecard icon located at the bottom of the sidebar allows a student to view any rubric scorecard information added to the paper by the instructor e general comments a general comment can be added to a paper by the instructor to write a longer statement or overall review and assessment in greater depth without reference to specific marks on the paper Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 43 Chapter 4 GradeMark Section Viewing Marks Viewing Marks Student users are able to view the full information of a comment or QuickMark editing mark in multiple ways The primary method is using the mouse The student will need to locate and click on a comment bubble on the paper This will select the mark in question and open the comment attached to it as well as emphasizing any highlight associated with the comment To view a QuickMark editing mark the student user must move the mouse pointer over the mark to view the full information of the text associated with the mark policy questions and emergency The expression or construction is cial responsibility and constitution CU Persome or dificult to read Consider rewriting controversy which touches foreign ini When a student opens a paper in GradeMark the general comments is the default sidebar view SIMILARITY
16. also available Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 17 Turnitin Student User Manual Chapter 2 OriginalityCheck Updated May 19 2011 Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Chapter 2 Originality Checking Introduction Papers submitted to Turnitin may be compared against billions of internet documents archived internet data that is no longer available on the live web a local repository of previously submitted papers and subscription repository of periodicals journals and publications The comparison may be against any or all of these repositories as set on a specific assignment by the instructor of the class The comparison document is called an Originality Report This document details the matching or similar text between a submission made on Turnitin and the documents the submission was compared against This document is listed in the instructor s view of the class assignment inbox At the discretion of the instructor student users may be able to view the Originality Reports for their own submissions on Turnitin This is a preference that is selected on an assignment by assignment basis and may be updated at any time by the instructor Only the instructor can change this setting Note If Not Available appears under the Report column of the assignment details then Originality Reports are not available to student users in this
17. assignment Students wishing to view or receive a copy of the Originality Report for their submissions must contact the instructor The determination of authorizing access to this information is in the hands of the instructor and institution Originality GradeMark Download Not t Available View Originality Reports The Originality Report provides a summary of matching or similar areas of text found in a submitted paper When an Originality Report is available to be viewed an icon is placed in the Originality Report column of the student class portfolio page Originality Reports that have not finished generating have a grayed out icon placed under the Originality Report column of the student class portfolio page Note Overwritten or resubmitted papers may not generate a new Originality Report for a full twenty four hours This delay is automatic and allows resubmissions to correctly generate without matching to the previous draft The Originality Report icon shows a percentage and a corresponding color indicating on an index where this percentage falls in terms of matching content This percentage is the Similarity Index Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 19 Chapter 2 Originality Checking Section Similarity Index The higher the percentage the greater the amount of text in the submission that came up as matching against information in Turnitin s repositories Th
18. canis John Doe Review the preview panel This is a text only version of the paper being uploaded Confirm it is the correct version of the file to send Title Great Expectations Preview Paper An important theme in Dickens novel Great Expectations is thi heart Manw eharactearc eyneriance the all te real arnnatiqon ef a P 7 Click submit at the bottom of the page Warning This step must be completed or the submission is not finished The paper will not submit return to upload page be available to the student or the instructor After the submission has been completed on step 7 a digital receipt is displayed on screen A copy is also sent via e mail to the address for the user login Save the receipt and the paper ID it contains as this is proof of a completed submission The digital receipt contains a unique paper ID number the name of the user profile submitting the paper title given by the submitting party the assignment title and the e mail address for the user submitting as well as the body text of the file Submitted Note If the add to pull down menu appears within the submit paper screen select whether to store your paper in the standard paper repository or in the institution paper repository Turnitin Student Handbook 11 Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Chapter 1 Getting Started Section How to Submit a Paper Submitting a paper by copy and
19. cut and paste e items per page select the number of items you would like displayed per page e show page info toggles the info messages at the top of each page on and off e send me e mail updates choose yes to receive e mail updates from Turnitin e use homepage link choose yes to create a homepage link To set up a link enter a link name and URL below Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 16 Chapter 1 Getting Started Section Messages and Announcements Messages and Announcements To view important Turnitin messages and announcements click on the messages link User Info Messages Student English Help Logout A Warning Urgent notifications may appear both on the messages page and on the Turnitin user homepage These include messages announcing scheduled downtimes Information and Assistance The yellow he p button on the top right corner of the page allows a user to contact the helpdesk and send any questions or problems about Turnitin with a description of the question problem The Turnitin helpdesk will email you an answer to your question in a timely manner User Info Messages Student English Help Logout ee Help Center The Help Center is an area we have created for our users to search for help or information about using Turnitin Frequently updated lists of the most common questions we receive are
20. enroll in a class class section ID x Enter the class ID and enrollment password for the new class E Click submit to enroll in the class and EP add it to the student user homepage submit Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook Chapter 1 Getting Started Section File Types and Size Submitting a Paper Student users of Turnitin submit papers to a class from the class portfolio page The class portfolio page is viewed by clicking on the name of the class from the student homepage The class portfolio page lists assignments created by the instructor for students to submit to Demo Academy Demonstration class ID enter a clas instructor 206960 Class Demo Section 1 Turnitin D Note If there are no assignments listed students will not be able to submit any papers to the course until the assignments are created Ensure that the correct course is being accessed and contact the instructor if no assignments are available to submit to Only the instructor controlling the class will be able to create assignments for students in the class File Types and Size Turnitin currently accepts the following file types for upload into an assignment Microsoft Word DOC and DOCX Corel WordPerfect HTML Adobe PostScript Plain text TXT Rich Text Format RTF Portable Document Format PDF The file size may not exceed 20 MB Files of larger
21. in the course How to post a new discussion topic 1 From the discussion board page click on ee ost a new topic the post a new topic link topics pending topics inactive topics topic title 2 Enter the topic information e topic title required e topic description optional Click submit to add the new topic to the list of pending topics to the discussion board The topic must be submit approved by the instructor before users are able to post replies to the new topic Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 52 Chapter 6 Discussion Boards Section Discussion Page Overview Discussion Page Overview The discussion page lists all discussion topics for a class From this page the user has a quick overview of all the discussions that are ongoing or previously active in the class The status column displays if a topic is active or inactive Active discussions still allow student posting Inactive topics do not allow any posting to be made unless the instructor reactivates the topic The replies column shows the total number of replies to a topic The new column shows how many replies if any have been posted since the student user last viewed the discussion topic If the class instructor has selected a moderator for a topic the pending column shows how many replies need to be moderated Refer to the Moderation section in this chapter for m
22. reply Replies can also be edited after eed A being approved Demo Student s reply 2 Edit the reply for content if necessary is think it would be interesting to look at younger and how narrator Pip describe 3 To approve a reply click the approve button below the pending reply The pending reply will be shown Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 57 Chapter 6 Discussion Boards Section Sorting Replies How to moderate a discussion topic replies 4 Use the approve pull down menu at the top and select yes to approve and post the reply or select no to reject the reply A reply can also be edited at this time before approving After selecting from the approve pull down menu yes or no click on the submit reply to topic button to approve the reply or delete it If the reply was approved it will be http www turnitin com You have chosen not to gos posted to the discussion If the reply was jou like to delete g rejected the moderator is prompted to to Just save it fy later click Cancel delete the reply or save it for later E K 4 The moderator can also delete a reply or a pending reply by clicking on the delete button below the reply A prompt will appear To delete the ly click Ok to delete this reply All reply Ciuc be deleted Warning If a reply is deleted that has replies that have been made to it all
23. s paper during the peer review assignment Metric questions allow a student to rate performance of the paper being reviewed against the given question on a scale of one to five moderator discussion board moderation of the discussion board in a class is assigned by the instructor The instructor may moderate the discussion or may assign this duty to a user in the class The moderator must approve all replies before the reply becomes public and is posted to allow all users in the course to view the reply notes calendar an instructor may place notes in the class calendar for information about the class that does not fit as an announcement or assignment Class notes are visible to all students in Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 68 Chapter 8 Glossary the class notes GradeBook a note may be added to the student overall grade or to a specific assignment for a Student by the class instructor using the GradeBook product These notes are viewed by the student through the my grades link on the class toolbar menu Optical Character Recognition OCR Optical character recognition software converts a image of text information into an actual text document that can be read and altered by word processing software Papers or documents transferred into a computer via a scanner require optical character recognition software conversion to be subm
24. single file may be submitted by a student user to any Turnitin assignment Any second or subsequent submission will overwrite the original file submission in this assignment Multiple files cannot be uploaded to the Same assignment by a student 4 Tip If there is more than one file that must be submitted to complete the directions given by an instructor contact the instructor immediately Additional assignments may be created or the student users may need to combine multiple documents into a single file of an acceptable file type to be uploaded into Turnitin How to Resubmit to an Assignment If resubmission by overwrite has been enabled or an instructor has deleted the student user s first submission resubmitting a paper is handled in an identical manner as a first time submission to an assignment Follow the steps for a first time Submission as listed in this handbook Note When a student user clicks on the Resubmit button in the class portfolio page for an assignment allowing overwrite resubmission a warning pop up will appear This serves to notify the student user that if available Originality Reports for any resubmission that is made in this assignment will require an additional twenty four hour delay to generate This applies to all submissions after the first submission made by any student user in any assignment Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 14 Chapter
25. source of the match in the Turnitin repositories Matches to other student papers are not available for Direct Source Comparison viewing unless the students are enrolled in your class Using Direct Source Comparison can be done from the Match Overview or the All Sources view mode of the Originality Report Users can either view the Direct Source Comparison as a glimpse within the paper or as the Full Source Text within the sidebar The glimpse only provides the matching text within context of a few outlying sentences from the source while the Full Source Text loads in the sidebar and contains the full text of the source and all the match instances Originality GradeMark Down 1 Open an Originality Report 5 E 2 Click on a highlighted area of text on eptune is the eich an the left hand student paper side p e eieh fgh far god of the sea it 1s the foulthlarce the mass of Earth and is shehtly m was considered the Solar System s ninth VET simple wikipedia org Expand to Full Text 3 A pop up window will appear above ito E the highlighted text displaying the Danan ainat ar Da rary aa AANE became a dwarf planet along with Eris and Ceres After this Pluto was added to Hse a ao et ns E a et e Penas aos shen So mambar 104040 A reambar of econ h di s moon Charon are sometimes called a binary system This is because the A matc barycentre of their orbits does not lie within them The IAU has yet to formalise a 1 aAnf
26. to your computer you may then use your computer s default PDF viewing application to print the Originality Report The downloaded version will no longer have any of the Direct Source Comparison capability and will not be able to show side by side comparisons The view modes of a downloaded report are not available in the PDF document Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 27 Turnitin Student User Manual Chapter 3 PeerMar Updated August 1 2011 Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 28 Chapter 3 Peer Review Section Overview Introduction PeerMark assignments allow students to read review and score or evaluate one or many papers submitted by their classmates At the end of the PeerMark assignment the papers will be distributed so that all the students are able to read the comments left on their work The PeerMark assignment may be anonymous or attributed depending on the classroom structure determined by the instructor Overview The basic stages of the PeerMark peer review process are e Student papers are submitted to a Turnitin assignment e The instructor creates a PeerMark assignment and sets the number of reviews each student will be required to write e On the PeerMark assignment start date students may begin their reviews through the PeerMark assignment on the class portfolio page e Th
27. 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 54 Chapter 6 Discussion Boards Section Discussion Board Views Discussion Board Views The discussion boards feature two main viewing styles a flat view and a threaded view These views use one basic structure but differ in other ways A topic thread might look like this Topic 1 First response to topic 1 1 Response to reply 1 2 Second response to topic 2 1 First response to 2 2 2 Second response to 2 Flat View The default discussion board view is the flat view This view shows responses flat in thread order like the example above With the flat view users can view responses with or without threads By default the thread is shown For example the following is posted I agree with this topic and the student user replies with Why do you agree with this topic The posting order will show up as I agree with this topic Why do you agree with this topic The flat view with nested threads is the default viewing method To view only responses and see no referenced thread use the show replies as pull down menu to select flat view with no thread on the discussion page Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 55 Chapter 6 Discussion Boards Section Threaded View Threaded View The second primary view type is the threaded view To use the threaded v
28. Composition QuickMarks the Convict until the a drive to impress her he recounts them e the nostalgia that we e circumstances great The user can click on the paper where the comment should begin The inline comment will show up as a light gray highlight over which typing may be done When finished click elsewhere on the paper or select the highlighter tool from the Tools palette The inline comment will appear as typing directly over the paper ini S an Europsan divide Representative of the former view M inline comment about this section of your paper actual hisfory considering the text Dichtung uber Held Mstruction immanent to the epic tradition a Rivalit An inline comment can be deleted by moving the cursor over the comment and then clicking on the gray trash can icon that appears to the left of the comment Deleted comments cannot be recovered The inline comment can be moved by clicking and dragging the comment to a new location on the page Releasing the mouse will affix the inline comment to the page in the new location Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 35 Chapter 3 Peer Review Section Composition Marks Composition Marks Composition Marks are standard editing marks that students can utilize when editing and reviewing their peers papers To add an composition mark to a paper click on the mark you want to add in the tools p
29. Originality Reports for submissions in assignments on Turnitin The Originality Reports allow instructors and students to easily determine any problems in citation or referencing and assists instructors in determining the Originality of a submitted work post date the post date of an assignment is set by the instructor during the assignment creation When the post date and time has passed students will be able to view GradeMark and GradeBook information on their submissions in this assignment If the assignment is a Peer Review students will be able to read the assessments written by their peers after the post date passes The post date does not control Originality Reports The post date must come after the start date and due date during assignment creation product a specific service feature or group of features offered by Turnitin as part of the purchase of a Turnitin license by an educational customer QuickMark standard editing Section Definitions marks A library of standard editing or correction marks provided by Turnitin which can be augmented by additional marks created by an instructor quickview Originality Report a view listing the sources for any matching or similar text at the top and shows the student paper with highlights indicating the matched or similar areas beneath This is similar to the print view of Originality Reports reply discussion board a posting made by a student in resp
30. Turnitin will need to use a word processing program to save the file as one of the accepted types Rich Text Format and Plain Text file types are nearly universally available in word processing software Neither file type will Support images or non text data within the file Plain text format does not support any formatting and rich text format supports only limited formatting options 4 Tip When converting a file to a new file format users should rename their file with a name other than that of the original file This is suggested to prevent permanent loss of the original formatting or image content of a file due to it being overwritten How to Submit a Paper To submit a paper to an assignment on Turnitin the user must log in and upload a file to an existing assignment Assignments on Turnitin cannot accept student Submissions until the assignment start date and time has passed Assignments may also reject submissions after the due date and time set by the instructor To check the start date and due date information either click on the name of the assignment in the class portfolio page or view the start and due dates located under the assignment name This action opens a pop up window showing assignment preference information including start and due dates times as well as other assignment information or special instructions Note After the submission has been completed on step 7 below a digital receipt is displayed in your browser wi
31. alette and drag the mark to the desired location on the paper el his regrets and ignorance as he recounts them vhich existed amidst intolerable circumstances great 4 Tip Composition mark symbols with yellow backgrounds on the palette are dynamic These marks require further modification when added to a paper Some of these marks are resizable using handles at the corners of the mark Others allow for text to be added in a text field This allows further customizing of these editing marks TO move a composition mark click on the mark and drag it to the new position on the paper and release the click To delete a mark place the cursor over the mark the trash icon will appear click on the trash icon to delete the mark orm cumbersome or difficult to read press her Consider rewriting can fe E as them ir Dickens hagt We GHenience the nostalgia that we Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 36 Chapter 3 Peer Review Section Composition Marks Reading Peer Reviews Once the PeerMark assignment post date has passed students are able to read the reviews written on their papers How to read a peer reviewed paper 1 Once logged in click on the name of the class the peer review was in Click on the Show details link for the PeerMark assignment and click on the links below the Review By column to read the reviews of your pa
32. ame of the user profile submitting the paper title given by the submitting party the assignment title and the e mail address for the user submitting as well as the body text of the file Submitted Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 12 Chapter 1 Getting Started Section Viewing Submitted Files Viewing Submitted Files After a submission has been completed it will be immediately available to view from the class portfolio page for the student or the assignment inbox of the instructor Submissions made previously can be viewed in any active or expired class that the student is still enrolled in on Turnitin Instructors may delete classes or unenroll students which prevents the student from viewing submissions that were made in the class Every paper that has been submitted can be viewed by first clicking on the Show details link next to the assignment the paper was submitted to and then by clicking on the paper title given to this submission under the Title column This will open a new window in a separate screen that displays the paper information in the heading at the top and the full text of the paper beneath assignment title Essay 1 assignment instructions search criteria internet Turnitin student paper database periodicals journals amp publications allow late submissions no Paper Title Originality GradeMark Download Great Expectations Downloa
33. ase use the Resetting Your Password instructions if the password has been forgotten to gain access to the user profile if you had a previously existing Turnitin user profile or use an alternate e mail address for your Turnitin access Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 5 Chapter 1 Getting Started Section Logging In Logging In To begin using Turnitin you must first log in During login a cookie will be set on your web browser to allow Turnitin to authorize your access during use of the site Please ensure that the web browser program you are using will allow this cookie to be set Please refer to the help or support information for your web browser for more information on allowing cookies from our site www turnitin com If you are logging into a profile using a temporary password received via e mail you will be required to confirm your user information and set a personal password and secret question answer information The password selected will be required to log into the user profile replacing the temporary password from the e mail To login to Turnitin 1 Go to www turnitin com 2 At the top right enter the e mail address and password associated ital E with your Turnitin student user account in the appropriate fields Create Account Retrieve Password D _ea 3 Click the Sign In button to log into eer the student homepage Retieve Password
34. atabase a set of information of a specific type or types In the specific context of the Originality Report provided by Section Definitions Turnitin database is used to refer to the type of information the submission was evaluated against for direct matching or high levels of similarity Available databases include internet archived internet periodical journal publication information and previous Submissions default submission type a user preference set by instructor or student users to define which file submission method should be displayed by default for submissions to an assignment in a Turnitin class default user type a user preference which determines the type of user homepage viewed after the user logs into Turnitin Users may switch user types without logging out by use of the user type tool bar menu link departmental account Departmental accounts are created for specific departments within an institution to use Turnitin products Instructors are able to join departmental accounts or be added by the departmental administrator digital receipt the digital receipt is a confirmation of a successful paper submission to a Turnitin assignment The digital receipt contains the unique paper ID number user name submission date and time class name assignment title and a copy of the submitted work The digital receipt is shown on screen after submission and a copy is sent by e mail to the user at
35. atches together A list of all areas of the paper which have similarity to information in the Turnitin repository Matches are color coded and listed from highest to lowest percentage of matching word area to the Submission Only the top or best matches are shown all underlying matches are visible in the Match Breakdown and All Sources modes e All Sources Allows a user to view matches between the paper and a specific selected source in the Turnitin repositories Contains a full list of all matches found rather than the best matches per area of similarity This listing is exhaustive but will show all matches found including any that are obscured in the Match Overview by virtue of being in the same or similar areas as other better matches e Match Breakdown Displays matches that are obscured by a top source Allows instructors to compare the match instance of a underlying source with the match instance for a top source e Direct Source Comparison An in depth view that shows an area of similarity compared side by side with a specific match from the Turnitin repositories Not available on all types of repository matches Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 21 Chapter 2 Originality Checking Section Originality Report Contents Originality Report Contents The Originality Report is separated into three main areas e document viewer frame shows the Similarity Index for the r
36. boards which are a feature of the Turnitin product as a whole general comment GradeMark a general comment is created by an instructor reviewing a submission using the GradeMark digital assessment product on Turnitin The general comment is not linked to a specific area of the paper GradeBook a product which allows instructors to place grades on student submissions to a class Tracks and calculates grades for students across multiple assignments as well as providing statistics for the class or assignments Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 66 Chapter 8 Glossary GradeMark a digital grading product offered by Turnitin which allows instructors to place comments and QuickMark editing marks on a submission for students to review This product also includes Standardized rubric scorecards and the ability to share QuickMark standard editing marks and rubric scorecards between instructors on an account via export or via administrators using the libraries sharing feature of the GradeMark digital grading product graph GradeBook the graph feature in GradeBook allows an instructor or student user to view class or student performance in a number of different graph types holidays calendar the holiday icon on the class calendar for a Turnitin class indicates a holiday entered by the class instructor Instructors may set a holiday to indicate the c
37. d ignorance as he recounts them How well does the introduction pull you a very bleak and overall depressi Yet within ing story Dickens has his narrator experience the nostalgia tha in as a reader all find when we recount our own lives even those lives which existed amidst intolerable circumstances Not Really vy 0000 Feet l transformations and failed expectations 1 23 E The love and affection shown to him by Biddy is altogether ignored until years later he realizes it and gov claim his love only to find out that Joe has married Biddy Yet it is those memories of Joe and Biddy that the most pleasant for Pip to recollect It is mostly the memory of the tiny details that Pip seems to have m affection for Joe and his ability to coi mfort Pip by piling gravy on his plate during Christmas dinner is vei QUESTIONS COMMENTS 1 How well does the author support their thesis Do they ever stray from their point lf so where experienced these n Pip the narrator were directly ihe recounts them 3 How well does the introduction pull you e the nostalgia tha in as a reader e circumstances g QUESTIONS COMMENTS Turnitin Student Handbook 32 Chapter 3 Peer Review Section PeerMark Tools Palette Adding Comments to a Peer Review PeerMark Tools Palette The PeerMark Tools palette contains all the commenting functions available to a student To access the Tools palette click on To
38. d ignorance as he refJpunts them Yet within a very bleak and overall depressing story Dickens has his narrator experience the n talgia tha our own lives even those lives which existed amidst intolerable circum ances g e love and affection shown to him by Biddy is altogether ignored until years later he realizes it and go aim his love only to find out that Joe has married Biddy Yet it is those memories of Joe and Biddy that the most pleasant for Pip to recollect It is mostly the memory of the tiny details that Pip seems to have m affection for Joe and his ability to comfort Pip by piling gravy on his plate during Christmas dinner is vei in Nickens ceems ta he cammenting on how dur Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 30 Chapter 3 Peer Review Section Selecting a Paper to Peer Review Writing a peer review for an assigned paper Continued QUESTIONS COMMENTS To answer a free response question 1 How well does the author support their click in the text box below the question thesis Do they ever stray from their point If so where and type in your response The word apenas ee minimum for the response is listed Pip the narrator below the text box were directly he recounts them 7 3 How well does the introduction pull you To answer scale questions click the I E Ea T radio button above the number for the
39. ding Submitted Papers Previously submitted papers can be downloaded by the student user This allows a student user to download and save a copy of any submission in the class made by this user The downloadable version of the file is in the original format of the submission indicated by the file type name to the right of the file download icon Some accounts allow the student to select either the PDF version or the original format version to download To download a file navigate to the portfolio page for the class the file was submitted to Copies of submitted papers are downloaded by clicking on the icon under the Download Paper header which is viewed by clicking on the Show details link next to the paper assignment Some users may be prompted by pop up windows or toolbar icons on their web browser to continue and approve the download or open the file Originality GradeMark Download B mO Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 13 Chapter 1 Getting Started Section Resubmitting Resubmitting Some assignments may allow students the ability to overwrite their previous Submissions until the due date and time set for the assignment This option can be set by the instructor on an assignment by assignment basis If overwriting is not enabled the instructor must manually delete a previous submission to allow the student user to submit a second file Note Only a
40. e Earth s Moon and a third its volume It has an eccentric and highly inclined orbit that takes it from 30 to 49 AU 4 4 7 4 billion km from the Sun This causes Pluto to periodically come closer to the Sun than Neptune its discovery in 1930 until 2006 Pluto was considered the Solar System s ninth zin the late 1Y Us following the discovery of minor planet 2060 Chiron in the outer Solar System and the recognition of Pluto s very low mass its status as a major All reviewer comments appear on the paper Each mark made to the paper is identifiable by the reviewer s initials unless the reviews are anonymous Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 38 Chapter 3 Peer Review Section Viewing the PeerMark Questions and Answers To view a specific student s comments click on their name in the sidebar signation 134340 Pluto is st known dwarf planet in the er Eris and the tenth largest irectly orbiting the Sun fied as a planet Pluto is now argest member of a distinct m as the Kuiper belt James Smith T Jane Smith Viewing the PeerMark Questions and Answers To view the PeerMark questions and answers click on the questions and answers icon The sidebar will load all the PeerMark questions The answers are located under each question If all reviews are displayed the answers are identifiable by the reviewers initials unless reviews are anonymous
41. e assignment Notes class notes uploaded by the instructor appear on the calendar Click the note icon to view the note info in a new browser window Announcements announcements posted by the instructor appear on the calendar with an announcement icon Click the link beside the icon to view the announcement Holidays holidays posted by the instructor appear on the calendar All holidays on the calendar appear with a light blue highlight to the date Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 60 Section Class Syllabus Chapter 7 Class Calendar Class Syllabus If the instructor has uploaded a syllabus for the class this can be viewed from the calendar page by clicking the syllabus button The syllabus page will open and display the syllabus if any posted by the instructor may 2008 jan Feb mar Apr May Jun July Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Calendar List The calendar can also be viewed in list mode The list mode will display all assignments and calendar entries in a list one year at a time To view the calendar in list mode the user must click on the ist button on the class calendar page To switch back to the calendar view click the calendar mode button may 2008 Jan I Dec ED assignments amp announcements calendar mode syllaus day notes Turnitin assignments announceme start Re
42. e percentage range runs from 0 to 100 The percentage is generated by the amount of similar or matching text compared to the number of words in the submission in total The paper shown in the Originality Report is fully formatted and contains any images and graphs included in the original document Similarity Index The color of the report icon is linked to one of five tiers of the Similarity Index This is based on the amount of matching text found by the repository comparison The possible similarity index percentage ranges are linked to a corresponding color blue no matching words green one matching word 24 similarity index yellow 25 49 similarity index orange 50 74 similarity index red 75 100 similarity index The overall similarity index and the corresponding color scaling of the icons provides a basic indication of how much information contained in a specific submission is matched to other sources in the Turnitin repository This number is a raw amount of matching done against the repositories selected for the assignment the submission was made to Direct quotation citations or bibliography areas of the paper are not automatically excluded The decision to permanently exclude or disregard matches to these types of text in a paper is made solely by the instructor of the class A Warning These indices in no way reflect Turnitin s assessment of whether a paper contains plagiarized material or improperly used mat
43. e student writes a review for each assigned paper by responding to the free response written and scale ranked questions selected by the instructor e Once the PeerMark assignment due date passes no additional reviews can be written completed or edited by the student e On the PeerMark assignment post date reviews of the students papers become available for the papers authors to view Distribution of Peer Reviews PeerMark assignments may have a combination of the following methods of distribution of papers to be reviewed e Automatically selected by the Turnitin system e Manually selected by the instructor e Self selected by the student For example An instructor may assign students to review five total papers One paper would be manually selected by the instructor Two papers would be automatically selected by Turnitin The students would select two additional papers to review Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 29 Chapter 3 Peer Review Section Distribution of Peer Reviews Writing Peer Reviews Peer reviews are completed by students writing or selecting answers to free response or scale questions provided by PeerMark or created by the instructor Free response questions require a written response and may have a minimum length requirement Scale questions require the students to rate an aspect of the paper that is being reviewed based on a qu
44. encryption is SSL SSL connection to Turnitin is available by clicking on the lock icon to the right of the login button on the main page at www turnitin com or by connecting directly to SSL at https www turnitin com single source Originality Report a view mode of the Originality Report where the user selects a specific source of matching or similar text to view Only sources from the specific match will be highlighted on the Originality Report in the submission Since multiple sources can be found for many similarities or matches this may allow a user to dig down to determine a primary source of the matching or similar text start date a date and time selected by the instructor when creating an assignment The start date and time must pass before students are able to begin submitting to an assignment Instructors are not prevented from submitting before the start date The start date for an assignment must be before the selected due date and post date during assignment creation This may be updated only by the instructor to meet the needs of a class student a user type able to enroll in courses created by an instructor user Student user profiles can only submit to assignments created by an instructor in a class they are joined to or have been authorized Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 71 Chapter 8 Glossary to join student limit the ma
45. eport and the title and author of the paper e paper text the submitted paper text in its original formatting Matching text is highlighted in a color that corresponds to the matching source listed on the right side of the Originality Report e matching sources sidebar the list of matching sources for the highlighted areas of the paper text to the left The sidebar also displays the Filter and Settings exclusion options Moon Report DUE Jun 18 Document Viewer Frame 68 8 Match Overvie 1 www raha utoronto ca Internet sour 354 760 km from Neptune atching Internet source Paper text Sources Int tso weed by Lassell in 1846 only a few weeks after the discovery of Ng In Greek mythology Triton is a god of the sea the son of Poseidon Neptune usually portrayed Paper Information The paper information can be viewed by clicking on the information icon at the bottom left of the document viewer The paper information contains the paper id the date the paper was processed the word count the character count the number of submissions to the assignment the overall similarity index and the three repository indices Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 22 Chapter 2 Originality Checking Section Direct Source Comparison Direct Source Comparison Direct Source Comparison allows a user to quickly compare matching text to the
46. eptune is the eighth anM hest planet irom the Sun in our Solar System Named for Full Source Text Cone WATEGDASE com view en pluto 50 Match 1 of 1 Turnitin utilizes multiple types of repository in the generation of the Originality Reports There are currently three types of repository e internet repository billions of active and archived web pages from the internet Internet sources indicate a date of download on the Turnitin Originality Report if the match is not found on the most recent download of content from this site e periodicals a repository of frequently updated content from professional jour nals periodicals and publications e student paper repository a repository of papers previously submitted by Turnitin users e institution paper repository a collection of papers submitted to the institution s repository Note If an area of submission text is matched to a source in the student paper repository on Turnitin it will be listed as student papers Direct Source Comparison is not available to students for student paper matches Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 24 Section Excluding Quoted or Bibliographic Material Chapter 2 Originality Checking Excluding Quoted or Bibliographic Material If quoted or bibliographic material is flagged as similar or matching this information can be removed from the Originality Report Studen
47. erial The Originality Report provides instructors with a tool to more easily locate matching or similar text within the text of a submitted work The determination and adjudication of proper citation and plagiarism are left solely to the instructor and institution to which the work was submitted Any questions regarding the definition of plagiarism used at your institution should be directed to the instructor of the class or an appropriate institutional staff member Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 20 Chapter 2 Originality Checking Section Viewing Originality Reports Opening the Originality Report Originality Reports are typically completed within ten to fifteen minutes of Submissions This report generation time may vary based on the extreme levels of usage that may occur during certain periods of the academic year or due to very large Submissions If the Originality Report viewing preference is set by the instructor to allow students to access the reports the Originality Report icon will allow the user to open the report Originality GradeMark Download Viewing Originality Reports The Originality Report can be viewed in one of four modes These modes allow users to view and sort the information contained in the Originality Report in ways better Suited to their needs The four viewing modes for an Originality Report are e Match Overview show highest m
48. estion the instructor has created according to a scale 1 Tip A peer review can be saved and closed to be completed at a later time by clicking the Save button at the top of the peer review page Writing a peer review for an assigned paper 1 Click on the class name Click on the Show details link to the right of the PeerMark assignment Click on the Start Review button next to Pre Assigned to start a pre assigned review PeerMark will open All the free response and scale questions that need to be completed for the peer review are located on the right side of the PeerMark screen ass ID enter a class English 101 Show details Pre Assigned Student Choice ENN PeerMark Assignment for Essay 2 Assignment d A Review by Jane Johnson Yd by TurnProgress 0 COMPLETED Print Tools Within Dicken s writing is a somber tone that can only be expressed by a man who has experieffted these events in his life and the recounting of the story floods the words with his sad memories Pip ffe narrator maybe many years past the end of the story or minutes afterwards tells his story as if it wereffirect appening He recounts his childhood with much warmth except for his encounter with the nvict until irst moment he meets Estella that necessarily transforms his childhood innocence into a dri to impress e the reader get to relive his life with Pip and we can feel his regrets an
49. he comment mark list general comments and rubric scorecard information for the paper being viewed Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 42 Chapter 4 GradeMark Section Paper Information Englisn 1 aracters experience the all to real emotion of a broken h ad but each Paper text aracter deals with it differently Miss Havisham has the most spiteful and Sidebar aature to her broken heart and makes Estella into the breaker of mg hearts to inflict the same pain that a man once inflicted on her Pip is the top man on Havisham s list Paper Information The paper information can be viewed by clicking on the information icon at the bottom left of the common viewer The paper information contains the paper id the date the paper was processed the word count the character count the number of submissions to the assignment The Similarity Indices will only be displayed if the instructor has allowed students to view Originality Reports for the assignment Marks Marks added to a student submission appear in the body of the paper The types of mark that an instructor can make on a student submission is a combination of any of the following e comments a comment is equivalent to the note an instructor would write in the margins of a paper e QuickMarkS QuickMark comments may be used by an instructor to easily place notice of
50. hor reply number date posted and number of replies This is accomplished by clicking on the column header for the sorting method A single click of the column header author will alphabetize the reply list from A Z A second click of the author column header will organize the list from Z A The default organization is listed in the organizational examples earlier in this chapter Turnitin Demo Sites ago 0 replies C Moderation An instructor may select to appoint a moderator for a discussion or may moderate the discussion themselves The role of the moderator is to approve any and all replies made on a discussion board Typically this approval is used to ensure that only acceptable content is posted that the discussion stays on topic and that no inappropriate language is used If the instructor sets a student user as the discussion moderator an e mail is sent to notify the student of this assignment As moderator the student user is responsible for approving pending replies An indicator of the number of pending replies in each discussion topic that the user is moderating is visible from the discussion board main page If a discussion topic has pending replies these can be viewed by clicking the discussion topic title Pending replies will be listed at the top of the discussion How to moderate a discussion topic replies 1 To edit a reply before approving it click the edit button below the pending delete
51. i Assignment Demo 50 Peer Review Demo pr Nibel pr Roland pr Pythag pr Gibbon Copyright 1998 2010 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 48 Chapter 5 GradeBook Section Notes Notes The instructor can enter a note alongside a grade for a submission If the instructor has entered a note for the submission a note icon will appear next to the grade under the note column Click on the note icon to view the instructor note 20 0 75 100 0 87 Demo Paper The full list of notes given to the student in a class can be viewed by clicking on the notes icon next to the grade summary at the top of the GradeBook window GradeBook Turnitin Demo total 268 290 average 92 490 letter grade 0 92 late 0 absent 0 assignment points grade note title Graphing Tools The graphing tools allow a student to view their own performance and the class average performance in line graph or pie chart formats The graphing tools are accessed by clicking on the graphs button in GradeBook GradeBook Turnitin Demo total 268 290 average 92 4 letter grade 0 92 late 0 absent 0 assignment points grade note title On the graphs page the student will use the show pull down menu to select the graph type to view your class performance line graph Waow breakpoints as percentages class performance for ALL assignments line graph N class
52. iew use the show replies as pull down menu and select threaded view When viewing a discussion using the threaded view only the top response of each thread is shown For example if the discussion has this structure Topic 1 First response to topic 1 1 Response to reply 1 2 Second response to topic 2 1 First response to 2 2 2 Second response to 2 the threaded view will appear as Topic 1 First response to topic 2 Second response to topic Additional replies will be accessible by clicking on the replies link for the selected response The user can drill further down opening additional layers of the thread by following the reply links To go back up a level the user can click on the thread title This will return the view to the level that was clicked Viewing Replies by User Replies can be sorted by user via use of the show replies from pull down menu To view only responses from a specific student user select the name of the student from the pull down menu Student users can also view only their own responses by selecting their own name from the menu show replies from bat 7 show replies as flat view with nest Argus Ellen Bing Rachel Brown Buster Franks Emmanuel Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 56 Chapter 6 Discussion Boards Section Sorting Replies Sorting Replies Replies on a discussion board can be sorted by status aut
53. in user pages These announcements are only sent by Turnitin Instructor announcements are made via the calendar announcements calendar The Turnitin calendar area of classes Section Definitions allows an announcement link to be added by the instructor to notify students of important information available active students the number of student users available on an account This number is the difference between the active student and student limit numbers for an account browser the web browser is the program used to view or access the internet or Turnitin This program is on the user computer Turnitin currently supports PC Windows 7 Vista XP 2000 Me 98 NT Internet Explorer 7 Mozilla Firefox Mac OS X 9 Safari 1 0 and higher Mozilla Firefox class to allow students to submit files an instructor must create a class for their students A class requires a name a class ID and a class enrollment password class calendar the class calendar page allows instructors to post announcements notes and holidays as well as automatically displaying the assignment start and due dates for a class Instructors can post a syllabus through the link on this page for quick reference by students in the class class ID a unique numeric identification number for a specific class created by an instructor on Turnitin class enrollment password an instructor created authorization password for a class on T
54. initinn nw hinam drenat mninnnanin aed comtil i manne misni m slina Share ala nnifes Esov sro his definitioffexcluded Pluto as a planet and 4 Optional Clicking on the url link available on live internet matches brings up a view of the live web site isi bra anew brower bor nindonw e than Pluto On August 24 2006 the Interi term planet for the first time By this defin 5a Click on the x in the top right corner Expand to Full Text of the pop up to close the window 5b To view the matching text within the full source click on the Expand to Full Expand to Full Text Ji Text link Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 23 Chapter 2 Originality Checking Accessing direct source comparison 6 The Full Source Text view of the source will load into the sidebar 7 If there are multiple matches to this source click on the arrow icons to quickly navigate through the match instances 8 To exit the Full Source Text View click on the X button Repository Sources Section Repository Sources Full Source Text http www freebase com view en pluto Internet Source ee 1 of 1 Pluto formal ten 134340 Pluto is the ee known dwarf planet in the Solar System after Eris and the tenth largest body observed directly orbiting the Sun Originally classified Match 1 of 3 C formation about Neptune View Comments N
55. itted to Turnitin Turnitin only accepts documents containing actual text data rather than an imaged document or submission Some scanners offer OCR conversion automatically but most OCR conversion requires hand correction to resolve any inaccuracies which can cause major changes to the actual content of a document Originality Report the Originality Report is a flexible document that allows students and instructors to review matches between a Submitted work and the databases scanned by Turnitin Citations quotations and bibliographic material are scanned against Turnitin s databases to determine an overall similarity percentage as well as specific matches to similar text Overall Similarity Index the overall similarity index is a percentage indicating the similarity of the text submitted to information Section Definitions contained in the Turnitin databases used for comparison on the assignment the submission was made in This percentage indicates a percentage based on the length of the paper compared to the length of the areas flagged as similar during the comparison page information the page information bar shows any information provided on the page including error messages or tips on the use or requirements of the page the user is currently viewing within the primary areas of the Turnitin site paper a paper refers to the document or file submitted by a user to an assignment in a class on the T
56. lable for student or instructor use on a peer review assignment Rubrics for a peer review must be selected on the assignment the review is based on Some rubrics for peer review are provided by Turnitin Instructors may also create their own peer review rubrics scale GradeMark A series of descriptors by which a student s Submission is categorized on a rubric scorecard Default scale entries are headed Poor Fair and Good Scale headings are customized by instructors creating or editing a rubric scorecard Descriptions can be entered for instructor guidance at every point where a criterion meets a scale Ex The description where the Grammar criterion intersects with the Good scale may indicate Above average understanding of word usage secret question and answer the secret question and answer set allows a user to reset their password immediately through the Forgot your Password link on the Turnitin website The secret question is selected from a list during user profile creation and the user enters an answer The answer is case sensitive and may or may not include spacing Different capitalization or spacing when answering the secret question will result in rejection of the password Section Definitions reset attempt Secure Socket Layer A security protocol available on many web browsers Secure Socket Layer comes in version 2 0 and 3 0 The standard acronym for Secure Socket Layer
57. lass enrollment password Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 4 Chapter 1 Getting Started Section Accessing Turnitin Enter the user first name last name anda valid e mail address to use as the login for Turnitin Create a user password The user password must be between six and twelve characters long and contain at least one letter and one number Re enter the password to confirm it Select a secret question from the drop down menu Enter the answer for the your first name your last name email address enter your password confirm your password secret question Please select a secret question question Remember and keep this information The answer is case and space sensitive question answer x capacity and authority to enter into this User Agreement and bound by all of its terms and conditions You should review this carefully If You breach the User Agreement Your authorizatior maw soba aticalhs toarminata 8 Review the user agreement To continue using Turnitin click on I agree create profile I agree create profile I disagree cancel 9 From the completed user profile creation z page click on Log in to Turnitin Log in to Turnitin Note If step 6 indicates that the e mail provided is already in Turnitin there is an existing profile under the e mail you entered Ple
58. lass instructor can exclude the quoted sections permanently Student use of this feature will revert back to normal when the Originality Report view window is closed This function is an approximation and not all quoted material can be correctly disregarded Correct use and type of quotation or citation in a Submission is the jurisdiction of the instructor expired class in the class context an expired status indicates the class is no longer available for the instructor to create new assignments Students will not be able to submit any new files Existing submissions can still be Section Definitions viewed or downloaded A class can be reactivated from expired status by the instructor from the class update screen expired account in the account context an expired account is no longer available to create new Sub accounts or any instructor or student usage Currently existing information will still be available for viewing Expired accounts will need to contact a Turnitin account representative for renewal Expired accounts on Turnitin will become inactive after a period of 180 days export GradeMark libraries Saving and downloading a copy of a specific GradeMark rubric or QuickMark set locally to the computer of the user export stats downloading a copy of account statistics in a Microsoft Excel format to a user s computer feature a part or aspect of a specific product such as discussion
59. lass will not meet on this date A holiday with this setting will show up with a blue highlight in the class calendar homepage the default login page which is different based on the selected default user type of the user profile being accessed homepage link a user preference option available under the user info toolbar menu The homepage link allows a user to embed the URL for a link to a specific page on their Turnitin class toolbar for quick reference if needed This link is only available to the user who creates this homepage link for themselves A class homepage link may be created by the instructor inactive account an account which has expired longer than Section Definitions 180 days previous and is now inaccessible for reactivation or viewing inactive class a class which belongs to an inactive account Information contained within inactive classes is no longer available and cannot be viewed by instructors or students Inactive product a product which has not been purchased or has been deactivated for a specific account or course individual account this type of Turnitin account is limited to a Single instructor user Individual accounts receive limits to the number of Originality Reports and if available GradeMark digitally graded papers that can be generated Inline comment GradeMark a comment typed directly onto the student submission by the instructor while reviewing the
60. le download due to security considerations on the web browser or computer being used downtime a period of time during which Turnitin will not be available or have extremely limited availability to users due date the due date ona Turnitin assignment indicates the date and time of day at which an Section Definitions assignment is due Submissions after the due date and time may no longer be allowed and will be automatically blocked by the Turnitin system Only the instructor can enable late submissions on an assignment on Turnitin The due date must come after the start date and before the post date during assignment creation The due date and time may be changed by the instructor at their discretion to meet the needs of a class e mail address an address at which a user may be contacted via e mail with digital receipts notifications or announcements if enabled new user login information or welcome notices or password reset information in the event of a password reset request A valid e mail address is highly recommended due to the important information that can be transmitted via e mail from Turnitin The e mail address used on Turnitin is also the user name for logging into Turnitin e mail updates notification sent from Turnitin to the user with important information such as product upgrades major changes customer polls class notifications and scheduled downtime information enrollment stude
61. lick on the grey plus icon at the bottom right corner of the excerpt Once you have decided which paper you would like to review click on the REVIEW THIS PAPER button PeerMark will open All the free response and scale questions that need to be completed for the peer review are located on the right side of the PeerMark screen 7 To answer a free response question click in the text box below the question and type in your response The word minimum for the response is listed below the text box 8 To answer scale questions click the radio button above the number for the rating you are giving this writer for the question 9 Once the questions are completed click on the Submit button at the top of the PeerMark page to submit your review Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Section Selecting a Paper to Peer Review Pre Assigned Student Choice Poverty is a prominent concern in Oliver Twist Throu t the novel Dickens enlarges on this theme describing slums Ki fat ists so decrepit that whole rows o po jouses are on the point of col ollapse ihe eon jo downtr ey that they seem scarcely human In a chapter Olive fends a pauper s rh eral with Mr Sowerberry and sees a whole family crowded together in one Dickens makes consider FE e use of hate olism in Oliver Twist The any ol obstacles Oliver faces symbolizes a ept Dickens Paper of good versus evil with il continually tryi
62. ndow A copy is also sent via e mail to the address for the user login It is important to use a valid e mail address to receive this copy of the digital receipt Save the receipt and the paper ID it contains as this is proof of a completed submission A Warning If the digital receipt is not shown on screen after submission return to the class portfolio page and view the assignment to ensure the paper submission completed correctly Submissions can be checked and viewed by clicking on the title of the paper under the title column to the right of the assignment name Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 10 Chapter 1 Getting Started Section How to Submit a Paper Submitting a paper by single file upload Start by clicking on the class name you would like to submit to after logging in to Turnitin Click on the Submit button to the right of the assignment name Select single file upload from the choose a paper submission method pull down menu Click the Browse button and select the class ID enter a class 2035960 Class Demo Section 1 choose a paper submission method single file upload browse for the file to upload file to upload Fill in the submission title field with the paper name cancel go back Author Click upload to upload the file A status bar will appear displaying the upload progress e e
63. ng to corrupt and e exploi t the ood but na e go ad winning ou ap ap Author Jim Jameson The begti oa raa Fa agin ae ae has satanic charact s he veteran corrupter of you ia ys EW THIS PAPER presides Estella in Dickens novel AE ations an orphan adopt ed by Mee Havisham raised her in such a way that she seems inc aan of love or feelin raed is the o cp of Pip s s heart I w onder what caused this Havisham s maniacal obsession to revenge hei a t the male or her living in a filthy o dunia ollecting years of cobwebs insects and rodents Croat rots ations a cken toge eA omb ota t can on aeda apres anity a amen whe has apak ced these events in his awha manv vaare nact t Great Expectations Author Michele Mohannis REVIEW THIS PAPER 0 COMPLETED w well does ge Do thi point If so wher oe n s writing is a somber tone that can only be expressed by a man who has experienced these events in his life and the recounting of the story floods the words with his sad memories Pip the narrator maybe many years past the end of the story or minutes afterwards tells his story as if it were directly happening He recounts his childhood with much warmth except for his encounter with the Convict unti first moment he meets Estella that necessarily transforms his childhood innocence into a drive to impress We the reader get to relive his life with Pip and we can feel his regrets an
64. nt users on Turnitin must be enrolled in an active class Student users can be enrolled by an instructor who provides the required information to create a user profile and e mail the student Student users can also be authorized to log into Turnitin and enroll in a class by use of the numeric class ID and the case sensitive class enrollment password selected by the instructor during class creation Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 65 Chapter 8 Glossary exclude bibliography the exclude bibliography link is an option on the Turnitin Originality Report Use of this feature automatically excludes information in the bibliography section of a paper Only an instructor can exclude the bibliography permanently Student exclusion of the bibliography will revert when the Originality Report view window is closed This function iS an approximation and not all bibliography structures will be correctly removed Proper usage of bibliographic information can be determined by the class instructor exclude quoted the exclude quoted link is an option on the Turnitin Originality Report Use of this feature automatically excludes information from directly quoted areas of the submission Citation is not detected or disregarded A Significant percentage of overall quoted material will cause an automatic notification that the exclusion may be exceptionally large Only the c
65. o submit by can be viewed or changed in the preferences section of the user info page syllabus calendar the syllabus link on the calendar page allows a user to view the syllabus document if any for a specific class The instructor is able to upload a class syllabus for easy reference by the students during the course thread discussion board the list of replies and responses to a specific topic on the discussion board The thread can be displayed based on the needs of the user by changing the viewing options on the topic in the discussion board Each user must change these preferences as needed topic discussion board the topic is a question or statement to which students can reply on the class discussion board Topics may only be approved by the instructor though students may post a topic Suggestion Topic suggestions may be deleted by instructors topic question Peer Review topic questions are a list of questions selected by an instructor for students to answer on a review of a peer s paper Topic questions may be sorted into categories and may have minimum length requirements Instructors have the option of including rubric sets for students to use during marking of peer s papers Students may also place numbered marks during their reply to a topic question to indicate areas they are speaking about when answering a topic question total active students in applicable accounts the number
66. ols on the PeerMark tool bar The Tools palette contains two commenting tools and several composition marks that students can use in reviewing and editing their peers papers Commenting experienced these T ml x Pip the narrator were directly Composition QuickMarks the Convict until the a drive to impress her he recounts them e the nostalgia that we e circumstances great Commenting Tools Within PeerMark students may comment on the paper they are reviewing A comment is equivalent to the notes that a student may write in the margins of a paper A comment might be I like this idea Think you could develop it further in this paragraph A comment may be up to one thousand characters in length Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 33 Chapter 3 Peer Review Section Commenting Tools ADD A COMMENT Le 1 Within PeerMark to add a comment to a paper click on the paper where you would like to comment A comment icon and comment bubble will appear Really well 1000 chars remaining Enter text into the text field of the comment bubble Optional If the comment references a specific area of the paper you can click and drag on the paper while the comment bubble is open to create a highlight over text The color of i lives even those lives which exis the highlight can be selected before clicking and dragging Multiple
67. onse to a discussion topic or the response to an existing reply by another student in the discussion board resubmit the act of submitting a new paper in place of an existing Submitted paper Resubmission can only be done if the instructor has set an assignment to allow students to overwrite until the due date and time of the paper or if the instructor has manually deleted the student s existing submission in the assignment inbox This option can only be enabled by the class instructor revision assignment type an assignment created by an instructor that is linked to an existing assignment Revision assignments may have a different start due or post date than the primary assignment Revision assignments allow instructors to easily enable students to submit multiple drafts of the same submission to different assignments Revision assignments like regular assignments only allow one paper per student to be Submitted rubric scorecard GradeMark a Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 70 Chapter 8 Glossary scorecard which allows instructors to easily grade students based on a scaled assessment of the Submission meeting certain criteria set for an assignment The rubric scorecard automatically totals a grade for the submission based on the boxes checked on the scorecard rubrics peer review a set of basic editing marks or comments avai
68. opyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 45 Chapter 4 GradeMark Section e rater Grammar Check Technology e rater Grammar Check Technology The e rater grammar feedback technology developed by ETS automatically checks Submissions to an assignment for grammar uSage mechanics style and spelling errors providing in depth feedback with on paper marks When viewing a paper in GradeMark for an assignment with e rater assignment settings enabled by the instructor e rater technology will load the grammar and spelling marks once GradeMark opens in the document viewer Hover over the e rater mark to view the description of the mark For a more detailed description about the e rater error click on the View handbook link other people h a deeper r You may need fo use an apostrophe to show Possessive gt poem in hi possession thange their iding with th ew handbook Note It may take up to a minute for the e rater feedback to load for the paper If the instructor left an additional comment on an e rater mark a comment icon will appear next to the mark title Hover over the mark to view the instructor s additional comment e to reach a deeper meaning lf is in this poem in his tower Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 46 Turnitin Student User Manual Chapter 5 GradeBook Upda
69. ore information on moderating a discussion topic The ast reply column shows when the last reply was posted in a topic The moderator column displays the moderator for the topic if any If no moderator has been selected none is displayed in this column The pull down menu on the discussion page lets the user choose to view all topics active topics pending topics or inactive topics By default the view is set to all topics Posting a Reply To access a discussion and view the responses in the discussion click the title of the topic listed on the discussion board page This will bring the user into the detailed view of the topic The topic is listed at the top of the page and any responses are listed beneath the topic Topic 2 Essay Topics starts October 04 2007 at 12 01 AM ends Apri 05 2009 at 11 59 PM Created by Demo Turnitin Discuss ie essay topics you are Dinking about writing on Reply to this topic Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 53 Chapter 6 Discussion Boards Section Responding to Previous Replies To post a reply to a topic topic title From the discussion board page click on first topic the name or title of the topic to reply to Essay Topics Click on the reply to topic button next to the discussion topic 5P Reply to this topic Enter the response in the reply box provided By default only the latest reply enter
70. per PeerMark will open with the student s review of your paper All answers to the free response and scale questions will be available on the right side of the screen under the Questions tab To view the reviewers comments in a list click on the Comments tab Click on the Rate this Review button to rate the helpfulness of the review Select a number on the scale from o to 10 and click on the Submit button to rate the review If you would like to print the review click on the Print link on the PeerMark toolbar ass ID enter a class qi7 English 101 SUBMITTED 12 17 09 QUESTIONS COMMENTS 1 How well does the author support their thesis Do they ever stray from their point If so where eat Expectations is that of a broken heart Many characters J think the author strays to a different ken heart but each character deals with it differently Miss 2 How well does the introduction pull you in as a reader geful nature to her broken heart and makes Estella into the breaker 3 What is the thesis of the paper Each character who experiences heart an once inflicted on her Pip is the top man on Havisham s list break has a decision to make either t r to forgive those who broke their heart and bha munansa nat in bel me mth mela nent ns 1 How well does the author support their thesis Do they ever stray from their point lf so where lthink thea w har cterove te a differnt Rate this
71. performance for ALL assignments pie chart ance I Class Demo your class performance line graph 1 your class performance pie chart your performance vs class performance line graph Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 49 Chapter 5 GradeBook Section Printing Graphs Student users can select from the following graphs available in line or pie chart formats e graphs showing class performance on all assignments e graphs showing student performance for all assignments e graphs comparing performance of this student to the class average When viewing a line graph a selection can be made to view grades as well as percentages This is selected from the show breakpoints as drop down menu Selecting grades adds the grades The grades can be removed by selecting percentages ance line graph saad breakpoints Ja d percentages Demo s Performance in Class Demo grades Printing Graphs All of the graphs in the GradeBook are available in a printer friendly version To print a GradeBook graph first click on the print view link below the graph As stanment print view The print view for the graph will open in a new browser window Once the print view is loaded click on the print this graph link or use the print command on the web browser print this graph Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin St
72. ports for the submissions made to assignments View papers marked with our GradeMark paperless grading tool Write peer reviews on papers Read peer reviews written on their papers View their grades in the GradeBook Participate in discussions on a discussion board Note The availability of these additional features depends on the services purchased by the school and the options selected or used in the course by the instructor For more information a student will need to contact the instructor for assistance Accessing Turnitin To access Turnitin each user must create a unique user profile The user profile consists of an e mail address user password optional personal information and a set of user preferences There are two ways for a student to obtain a Turnitin user profile e An instructor may add the student to the course in which case the student would receive an e mail with a temporary password and login instructions e An instructor may provide the information which allows a student to join a class on the Turnitin website A Warning Each user profile must be assigned a unique e mail address in the Turnitin system Users who have previously created a Turnitin user profile will need to log in with the e mail address and password that was originally set for the user profile Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 3 Chapter 1 Getting Started Section Accessing
73. r enter a class portfolio all classes enroll in a class what is plagiarism NOW VIEWING HOME Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 15 Chapter 1 Getting Started Section User Info User Info A user profile contains personal information and user preferences Click the user info link to open the user profile options The user information area is separated into two sections personal information and user preferences User info Messages Student English Help Logout Se Personal Information In the personal information section of the user information page a user is shown a number of fields many of which are optional and can be provided at your discretion There are required fields however which are listed here User name e mail Password Confirm password Secret question Question answer Last name First name All other areas of the personal information section are optional User Preferences The user preferences section of a user profile affects how information within the profile account is presented and sets defaults for commonly used functions User preferences include e default user type determines the type of user homepage seen on login administrator instructor or student change user type is done by using the user type button e default submission type select a default submission type file upload bulk upload or
74. rating you are giving this writer for the sia question 123 4 5 e circumstances 00000 Really well 7 Answer all remaining free response and scale questions Once the questions are completed click on the Submit button at the top of the PeerMark page to QUESTIONS submit your review Tip Students may add comments directly on the paper they are reviewing please view the Adding Comments to a Peer Review section for more information on how to add comments in PeerMark Selecting a Paper to Peer Review Some instructors may create a PeerMark assignment that allows students to select one or more papers to review from the papers submitted to the paper assignment These papers may be in addition to or instead of automatically assigned papers If this option was selected by the instructor Student Choice will appear under the Type column next to the Start Review button Writing a peer review for a selected paper ass ID enter a class 1 Click on the class name 2 Click on the Show details link to the right of the PeerMark assignment show details Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 31 Chapter 3 Peer Review Writing a peer review for a selected paper 3 Click on the Start Review button next to Student Choice to choose a paper to review Look through the available papers to review If you would like to view a paper in its entirety c
75. replies made to the deleted reply will Cancel also be deleted Once the reply has been approved it will be assigned a number and added into the discussion thread Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 58 turnit Turnitin Student User Manual Chapter 7 Class Calendar Updated August 1 2011 Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Chapter 7 Class Calendar Section Accessing the Calendar Introduction The class calendar allows student users to keep track of important dates for Turnitin class assignments The Turnitin class calendar can also display announcements class notes or holidays posted by the instructor Also on the class calendar page is a syllabus link that allows instructors to post an electronic version of their syllabus for easy student reference Accessing the Calendar Each class will have its own unique Turnitin class calendar The class calendar can be accessed from any page within the class using the calendar tab peer review my grades discussion Calendar Items There are four types of item that can be entered on the class calendar on Turnitin assignments notes announcements and holidays Turnitin Calendar Items Assignments assignments or peer reviews that the instructor creates are automatically added to the calendar Click on the assignment title to view the information on th
76. size may be reduced in size by removal of non text content or the instructor may be contacted to request multiple assignments to submit the document in sections Note Text only files may not exceed 2 MB Note PDF documents must contain text to be submitted PDF files containing only images of text will be rejected during the upload attempt To determine if a document contains actual text copy and paste a section or all of the text into a plain text editor such as Microsoft Notepad or Apple TextEdit If no text is copied over the selection is not actual text Tip Users submitting scanned images of a document or an image saved as a PDF will need to use Optical Character Recognition OCR software to convert the image to a text document Manual correction of the resulting document is highly recommended to fix any errors caused by the conversion software Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 9 Chapter 1 Getting Started Section How to Submit a Paper Note Some document formats can contain multiple data types This includes text images embedded information from another file and formatting Non text information that is not saved directly within the document will not be included in a file upload This includes references to a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet included within a Microsoft Office Word document Note Users whose files are saved in a file type that is not accepted by
77. student work The color of inline comments may be selected by the instructor institutional account this type of Turnitin account is designed for an institutional location and can be separated into sub accounts at the departmental level instructor the term used for teachers tutors or other student assisting users added or authorized to join as instructors on a specific Turnitin account A single person may be joined to multiple Turnitin accounts or sub accounts using one user profile or separate user profiles Users may fill more than one user type role on Turnitin Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 67 Chapter 8 Glossary internet archive Turnitin s web database includes inactive or no longer available web pages and copies of pages that have changed over time This allows Turnitin to search against information that is no longer available or which has changed over time items per page a user info page preference that allows users to determine the number of items from any list they wish to see per page on Turnitin knowledge base The knowledge base is an area we Nave created for our users to search for help or information on specific aspects of using Turnitin Also available are frequently updated lists of the most common questions we receive libraries assignment peer review these library types allow instructors to easily quickly copy
78. ted August 1 2011 Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 47 Chapter 5 GradeBook Introduction The Turnitin GradeBook allows an instructor to enter and calculate grades for students on assignments submitted to the instructor The my grades tab appears on the class portfolio page when this product is available The GradeBook can be used to track numeric grades attendance and notes as well as allowing students to graph their performance To view any grades and attendance records or instructor notes visible in a specific class open the class portfolio page and click on the my grades tab my grades WING HOME gt ENGLISH 1 Viewing Grades A student user s grade page will show the papers and reviews the student has Submitted along with any grades that have been given by the instructor on these submissions The number in the points column shows the total number of points an assignment is worth The number placed to the left of the points column shows how many points the student received for the assignment The grade value for the Submission appears in the grade column Grades only become available on the post date of an assignment The top of the grades page shows the overall class grade and the attendance GradeBook Turnitin Demo notes graphs total 268 290 average 927 4 letter grade 0 92 late 0 absent 0 assignment points grade note title
79. the e mail address provided as the user login name This e mail is sent by noreply turnitin com and spam filters should be checked to ensure they do not block users from receiving this e mail Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 64 Chapter 8 Glossary direct source comparison a type of viewing mode on the Turnitin Originality Report that allows users to compare a matching or similar area of a submitted paper with a specific source to visually assess the extent of matching or Similar text This view mode is provided to allow the user better determination of the usage of the matching or similar areas in both the submitted paper and the source found in the Turnitin databases Not all match types allow Direct Source Comparison discussion board the discussion board feature on Turnitin allows instructor and student users to converse through a basic discussion board feature as part of a Turnitin class The discussion board is enabled by default but the instructor or institutional administrator for the account may disable this feature at any time Instructor approval is required for topic posting and replies ona discussion board may be moderated for content by a user in the class and may be anonymous or attributed download file transmission of a file from Turnitin to the computer of the user selecting to download files Some users may need to enable fi
80. ts are only able to remove quoted or bibliographic material for the duration of the current view of the report Permanent exclusion of this information must be handled by the instructor Please note that the functions for excluding material are approximate and human judgement is the final arbiter for proper quotation or bibliographic reference Cited material cannot be excluded directly and quotations can only be excluded if block indentation or direct quotation marks begin and end the quotation Excluding quoted or bibliographic Matches Originality GradeMark Down 1 Open an Originality Report 2 Click on the Filter and Settings icon 3 To exclude Quoted or Bibliographic EXCLUSIONS material click the check box next 2 Exclude Quotes to the Exclude Quotes and Exclude Bibliography exclusion options Exclude Bibliography 4 Click on the Apply Changes button to save the settings Turnitin Student Handbook 25 Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Chapter 2 Originality Checking Section Excluding Small Matches Excluding Small Matches Users have the ability to exclude small matches by either word count or by percentage To exclude small matches within an Originality Report click on the Fi ter and Settings icon below the sidebar The sidebar will load with the exclusion options Below the Exclude matches that are less than option enter into either the words or
81. udent Handbook 50 Turnitin Student User Manual Chapter 6 Discussion Boards Updated August 1 2011 Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Chapter 6 Discussion Boards Section Accessing Class Discussion Boards Introduction Discussion boards give students the chance to participate in peer discussions using the online discussion board feature in Turnitin The class discussion board allows students to suggest topics for approval by the instructor reply to topics posted by the instructor and reply to the posts made by other students in a moderated discussion environment Accessing Class Discussion Boards The class discussion board is available from the class portfolio discussion tab The class instructor or account administrator for the institution may disable this feature or the feature may not be in use If the discussion tab is not available it has been disabled If the discussion board is available access the class discussion board by clicking on the discussion tab peer review my grades discussion calendar Posting a Discussion Topic The instructor may not allow student posting of discussion topics Discussion topics only become active if the instructor approves these topics If there is no link to post a new topic the instructor has disabled the ability of students to post topics The discussion topic must be approved by the instructor before it can be viewed by students
82. urnitin Both class ID and enrollment password are required for students Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 63 Chapter 8 Glossary who will be self enrolling in a class class portfolio the class portfolio page is the main view page of a student for a specific class comment GradeMark A correction or other mark left on a student submission by the instructor using the GradeMark digital assessment product from Turnitin cookie an information packet sent to and stored on the web browser of a user Access to Turnitin requires the web browser to be set to allow cookies from the service These cookies are used to check and ensure access is granted as the user moves between pages within Turnitin s website consortium account an account type which is the parent for multiple institutional accounts Consortium accounts do not allow instructors to directly join Instructors must be added to an institutional or departmental account criteria GradeMark criteria are a part of the Rubric Scorecard feature in GradeMark Criteria describe the requirements for a Submission to meet specific areas of the grading scale GradeMark cumulative view one of the viewing modes available on the Turnitin Originality Report This view shows the best overall matches to the entire submission This viewing mode is also known as show best matches together d
83. urnitin website paper ID the paper ID number is a unique identifier that can be used to refer to a specific paper The paper ID number can be viewed by accessing the paper in the assignment inbox for instructors The paper ID number is also available on the paper view page Originality Report or GradeMark digital assessment view of the Submission PeerMark this product allows students to anonymously or with attribution review submissions made by other students within the course Students reply to free response and scale questions selected or created by the instructor Instructors may also comment on the paper using three different commenting tools inline text tool highlighter tool and composition marks A PeerMark assignment must be based on a normal Turnitin assignment where the student papers are initially Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 69 Chapter 8 Glossary Submitted PeerMark assignment the PeerMark product allows an instructor to create an assignment where students will peer review the Submissions of Turnitin classmates on a previous assignment PeerMark assignments distribute the papers based on the instructors selection of the distribution type to be used for the peer review Once the due date passes no further peer reviews can be written or completed for this assignment by the students Plagiarism Prevention this product creates
84. ve password that requires the presence of at least one letter and at least one number The user password is generated randomly when a user is created Section Definitions and added by list upload from the administrator or instructor or is set by the user when joining the Turnitin account for their institution by creating a new user profile User passwords may only be reset via e mail to the user name selected or via use of the secret question and answer set for the user profile No other method of password reset can be done outside of this manual system due to the privacy policies of the Turnitin website user type Turnitin has three available user types A single user profile may have access to all three user types to fulfill different functions The user types are administrator instructor and student view mode Originality Report the Originality Report can be viewed in multiple modes by users These modes allow users to access the information presented in the Originality Report in the mode that most usefully presents the information of any matching or Similar text in the comparison of the submitted work to the Turnitin databases in use for a specific assignment Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 73
85. view Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Turnitin Student Handbook 61 if iF iif f LIN turnitin a Turnitin Student User Manual Glossary Updated July 28 Chapter 8 2011 62 Turnitin Student Handbook Copyright 1998 2011 iParadigms LLC All rights reserved Chapter 8 Glossary Definitions account a Turnitin account allows instructors to use products purchased from Turnitin account ID the numeric identification number for a specific account or sub account account join password an account specific password which allows instructors to self join an account when used in conjunction with the account ID active students the number of unique student users enrolled in at least one active class on an account or accounts Active student counts do not include students who are joined to more than one course using the same student user profile administrator the controller of a specific Turnitin account This user type is able to activate or deactivate products on an account change account settings and add Or remove instructors from account access assignment Submissions to a class on Turnitin are made to an assignment Each assignment can allow only a single submission per student user who is enrolled in the class announcements toolbar announcements from Turnitin are available on the messages link from the user toolbar on the ma
86. ximum active student count available for an account or accounts based on the number of student licenses purchased student mode the student view mode of a paper reviewed by an instructor using the GradeMark digital assessment product Student mode allows the user to view or print the paper and to view or download a PDF or original format copy of the document that was graded The download copy does not contain any of the GradeMark comment or scoring information Student mode of viewing a GradeMark paper cannot remove or modify marks or grades in any way sub account an account created beneath a parent account The Turnitin account tree allows for multiple sub accounts created under each parent account Only individual accounts may not create sub accounts The number of institutional accounts created beneath a consortium account is determined by license purchases submission a file or files uploaded by a student or instructor user into an assignment within a Turnitin class Only a single file per student user can be submitted to an assignment by a student user submission type Turnitin offers multiple submission types for students and instructors Students are able to submit a single file at a time by either single file upload or cut and paste submission Instructors are able to submit files by file upload copy and paste zip upload or bulk upload options The Section Definitions default file type for a user t
87. your reply is Shown To display the entire thread form and select entire thread Once the reply is entered click on the submit reply to topic button to add the reply to the discussion If the topic is A as moderated the reply will only be posted after moderator approval d Tip Responses that will take more than a few minutes to type should be written in a word processor software and then copy and pasted into the reply box for the discussion board This prevents loss of internet connection causing a lost reply to the discussion board especially in the event of complex replies No images or formatting is accepted by the reply box only text will be entered into a discussion board reply thread Responding to Previous Replies Student users may also respond to the replies left by other classmates This encourages discussion and can help students to polish opinions and ideas with the assistance of their peers To respond to a reply rather than to the discussion topic use the reply link to the right of the specific reply instead of the reply to topic link Deleting or Editing Responses A response may be edited or deleted by the user who created the response This is done by clicking on the edit or delete links to the right of the response If a reply has been added to a post it cannot be deleted or edited by the user Only the moderator or instructor will be able to modify or delete the response Copyright 1998

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