Leadership and
Implementation Planning
Planning for Success
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Leadership Planning Session: Objectives
• Have a common understanding of the functions &
potential benefits of Turnitin.
• Clarify goals and expectations for implementing
Turnitin.
• Identify obstacles and challenges of
implementation.
• Discuss means of overcoming obstacles and
challenges to ensure a smooth implementation.
• Locate resources for professional development in
order to train students, instructors and Turnitin
campus administrators.
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Leadership Planning Session: Overview
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Introduction to Turnitin
Turnitin Implementation
Program Goals and Measuring Success
Handling Concerns Upfront
Planning Training & Professional Development
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Introduction to Turnitin
Benefits for Teaching.
Impact on Learning.
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What is Turnitin?
Prevents
Plagiarism
Engages
Students
Manages
Assignments and
Collaboration
Delivers Rich
Feedback
A Web-based Solution That Puts the Student’s Paper at the
CENTER of the Online Feedback Process
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Learn more…
• Turnitin Suite Overview on YouTube:
http://vimeo.com/30553739
• Introduction to Turnitin Presentation:
https://iparadigms.box.net/shared/tjhyip0t8t
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L.E.A.R.N.
Turnitin Implementation Model
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Implementation Model – L.E.A.R.N.
• Learn About Turnitin
• Educate Stakeholders
• Activate Users
• Reinforce the Value of Turnitin
• Note Usage and Success
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Learn About Turnitin
• Learn About the Products and Features
– It is important to have a clear understanding what Turnitin is. Watch these
demonstration videos to get an overview of what Turnitin can do and how it
will benefit your instructors and students.
• Learn About the Educational Impact
– Read about the effectiveness of Turnitin as well as white papers and case
studies that reveal how institutions, instructors and students benefit from its
use.
• Attend a Live Walk-through
– Join the Turnitin product support team as they walk you through the basic
functionality and navigation of Turnitin from an instructor's perspective.
• Watch or Read Training Tutorials
– Go to the training center and watch our collection of training videos for
administrators, instructors and students. Each short video covers a specific
topic on using Turnitin.
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EDUCATE Stakeholders
• Educate Administrators, Leaders & Key Personnel
– Identify key people responsible for the successful implementation of
Turnitin and orient them to Turnitin. Take time to explore the features and
functionality.
• Develop an Outreach Plan
– How will you let everyone know the school will be using Turnitin? We'll
walk you through key steps in developing an outreach plan, provide some
supporting content, and bring up some often overlooked considerations.
• Train Instructors
– When it comes time for instructor training, use these guides and templates
to ensure smooth informational and training sessions that cover all the
important points.
• Educate Students
– While you likely won't be training students en masse, these resources will
help you train instructors on how to educate students.
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ACTIVATE Users
• Activating instructor accounts is a crucial step in getting
them started with Turnitin.
• Instructors must have joined your institution's account
before before they can begin using Turnitin.
• Instructors can be added to your Turnitin account in three
ways:
– List Upload
– Individual Entry
– Instructor Joins Account
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REINFORCE the Value of Turnitin
• Teaching Tips
– Share Turnitin teaching tips as part of other communications to your
instructors throughout the year to keep instructors aware of some Turnitin
best practices.
• Continued Training
– Offering continued training focused on specific Turnitin products, features
or outcomes is essential in maximizing the effectiveness and efficiency
needed to truly save instructors time and engage students.
• Attend Webinars
– Turnitin offers live and recorded professional development webinars
geared toward taking instructors beyond just plagiarism prevention and
toward a powerful pedagogy for writing to learn.
• Encourage Sharing
– Sharing your school's success stories, results, best practices, and
testimonials about Turnitin creates social proof of Turnitin's efficacy, which
in turn leads to more instructors to use it.
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NOTE Usage
• Viewing Account Statistics
– Statistics are available for top-level accounts and sub-accounts
which include the number of instructors and students in your
accounts as well as usage information.
• Benchmark Comparison
– See how your institution's usage stacks up to other school's like
yours? This usage benchmark guide will help you see where you
are excelling at and where you can focus training on.
• Programmatic Assessment
– Evaluate whether the goals you set at the beginning of the term
were achieved at the instructor, programatic, and campus levels.
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Establishing Program Goals
Measuring Success.
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Establishing Program Goals
What are some goals you have set for yourself to
improve the use of Turnitin?
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Program Goals
• Establish short and long term goals …
• How does Turnitin support the institution’s goals?
• How will your instructors use Turnitin to address
these goals?
• How will you measure progress toward goals?
• What evidence will you gather and use?
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Program Goals
Examples of Long Term Goals:
• Establish or reinforce high standards of academic
integrity
• Protect the value of degrees granted
• Improve student performance on written
assignments
• Enable instructors to utilize more written
assignments across the curriculum … without
dramatically increasing their workload
• Improve overall academic effectiveness
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Program Goals
Examples of Specific Short Term Goals:
• 80% of instructors will be familiar with and use the
core Turnitin components 2-4 times a semester
• Instructors require one student assignment
submitted online per term
• Use Turnitin once a month to teach students how
and why to document sources.
• Increase opportunities for student peer interaction
by using Discussion Boards for 1 assignment per
class per semester.
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Handling Concerns Upfront
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Considerations
Organizational considerations include:
• Personnel needs
– Identify a Turnitin Administrator and sub-administrators,
as needed
– Identify 1-2 “go to” champions for each campus, if
possible
• Assess technology needs
• Review and adjust school policies regarding
plagiarism
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Turnitin Administrator
Role & Responsibilities:
• Creates and manages the campus Turnitin account of subadministrators and users.
• Assists instructors in creating their user profiles and using
the resources available as part of their classroom and
curriculum.
• Updates account users of announcements from Turnitin,
such as scheduled downtimes, etc.
• Tracks usage and efficacy using account statistics and
generates reports on usage and efficacy to campus
administrators and implementation specialists to assess
implementation goals.
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Turnitin Champions
Role & Responsibilities:
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Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
High energy and willingness to help others
Strong technology skills; self-starter in learning new skills
Able to attend all professional development sessions
Is given time in schedule to support other instructors
Experience in recognizing instructors who are struggling and identifies
needs and suggests options to meet those needs
• Works well with English department and all cross functional
departments; has respect from all colleagues and is seen as a leader in
the organization
• Guides instructors toward the resources needed to use Turnitin as part
of their curriculum
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Planning Professional
Development
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Planning Professional Development
Use best practices in planning training &
professional development:
• Consistent use leads to best results
• Reinforce the message every term
• Keys to success:
– Instructor training to get started
– Professional development emphasizes use as
instructional support for formative assessment — rather
than just for "plagiarism deterrence and policing”
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Planning Professional Development
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Initial training for instructors
Ongoing classroom support
Ongoing communications
Retraining
Advanced training
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Planning Professional Development
• Administrator Training
– Initial
– Campus Administrator will provide ongoing instructor support
• Instructor Training
– Initial
– Mid-year checkpoint
– End-of-the-year
• Student Training
– Instructors will provide training resources to students within
their courses
– Library staff will support students in their research
– Writing Center staff will support students in their writing
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Training Resources
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Quickstart Guides & Manuals
Training Videos
Training Articles
Live online walk-through sessions (6x per week)
Turnitin Academy webinars (Live & Recorded)
Help Center Articles
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Turnitin Academy Live Webinars
Interactive webinars geared toward taking instructors beyond
just plagiarism prevention and toward a powerful pedagogy
for 'writing to learn.’ Topics include:
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Pushing Past Plagiarism with OriginalityCheck
Peer Review Across the Curriculum with PeerMark
Offering Meaningful Feedback with GradeMark
Teaching Effective Source Integration
Assessing Written Work w/ Turnitin
Managing Students and Assignment
Teaching the Writing Process w/ Turnitin
Developing 21st Century Skills w/ Turnitin
Best Practices for Teaching w/ Turnitin
Turnitin Implementation and Leadership Planning
http://community.turnitin.com/academy
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Expanded Support Hours
• Monday to Friday, 6 AM – 11 PM (U.S. Pacific Time)
• Saturday & Sunday, 2 PM – 11 AM (U.S. Pacific Time)
tiiSupport@turnitin.com
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Use of this Presentation
• This presentation was created by iParadigms, LLC
licensed under the Creative Commons AttributionShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
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