HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR PAPER TO TURNITIN.COM
 Turnitin.com is an online plagiarism detection program. You will need to create a Turnitin.com user
account and your paper must be submitted by the time and date specified in the assignment.
Turnitin.com will not accept late assignments.
 All submissions will be evaluated, but if you submit a paper with a similarity index greater than 10%
you will probably receive a zero for the assignment and could possibly be reported to the
administration.
 Turnitin can accept files in the following formats: MS Word, WordPerfect, PostScript, PDF, HTML,
RTF, and plain text. Be sure that you save your paper in one of these formats.
1) First-time users need to create an account: Do this immediately, NOT when your assignment is due
1. Visit Turnitin.com and click on “create account” at the top of the page.
2. If you have used Turnitin.com before you can enroll in this course by using your existing account. If
you are new to Turnitin.com, you will need to create a new account by selecting “student”
3. Complete the information to “Create a New Student Account” using the information below.
4. Enter the class ID number and the class password written below:
Class ID #:
Class password:
5. To make it easier, it is recommended that you use your school email address and the same password
you use to access the student portal.
6. Choose “I agree – create a profile” after reading the terms and conditions of use.
2) Logging in to Turnitin.com to submit your paper
1. Enter your email address and your personal Turnitin password in the upper right-hand corner of the
screen. Click on the “Log In” button.
2. Click on the class listed under “enter a class”. If you are enrolled in more than one class, click on the
appropriate class that you wish to submit work for.
3. Click on the “submit” button next to the assignment that you are submitting.
4. Your first and last name should already be input. Enter the title of your paper.
5. Browse for the file you want to upload. When you have found it, double-click on it to upload it.
6. After you have chosen the file to upload, click on the “submit” button.
7. Turnitin will show you a copy of your file. Make sure that this is the file you want to submit. If it is,
click on “yes, submit”.
8. You will receive an email confirming that you submitted a paper to Turnitin. This is the ONLY
evidence that you submitted your paper on time, and the only evidence we will accept if you later
cannot find your paper on Turnitin, so be sure to print out a copy for your records.
9. Turnitin will generate a “similarity index” (plagiarism percentage) that will identify any shared content
between your paper and others. It may take Turnitin as little as ten minutes and as much as two days
before it calculates this index. Furthermore, it will not calculate a final similarity index until the paper
deadline has passed, because it then compares your paper to other papers submitted in Biology 101.
10. If your similarity index is between 0 and 10%, you are good to go.
11. Submit your paper WELL BEFORE the absolute deadline so that if the similarity index is higher than
10%, you have time to revise and resubmit it.
12. Resubmissions can take as much as 48 hours to be processed by Turnitin.com. For this reason, I
advise students to submit their papers at least 3 days before the absolute deadline so that they have
adequate time to make modifications if need be and resubmit before the class deadline.