A Quick Intro and Demo
Michael D. Martinez
Department of Political Science
October 12, 2009
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A little bit of “why”
A bigger bit on “how”
◦ How to access Turnitin
 E-Learning
 Stand-alone
◦ Turnitin input and options
◦ Turnitin output
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A little bit of “what to do if you detect a
problem”
Optional: My “Plagiarism” lecture to students
◦ Source: “Plagiarism”. New World Encyclopedia.
◦ http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Plagiarism
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An electronic in-box for student assignments
An archive of student authored papers that
have been submitted to Turnitin
A program to help instructors evaluate the
originality of submitted papers
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Turnitin compares the text of each submitted
paper against …
◦ All papers that were previously submitted and archived
◦ Many journal articles that are electronically available
◦ Searchable web sources
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Turnitin returns an originality report to the
instructor highlighting passages that “match”
other works.
Turnitin does not pass nor fail students. It simply
helps instructors find potential originality
problems.
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Through E-Learning
◦ This is what I usually use
◦ Each semester, apply for an E-Learning course
◦ Turnaround is usually less that an day, often much
less
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Through the Turnitin site
◦ Still have to apply through UF, because UF licenses
the use of Turnitin
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http://lss.at.ufl.edu/
Login … Select your class
E-Learning has three views
◦ Build
◦ Teach
◦ Student
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You’ll want to be in Build view to use Turnitin
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I make a separate folder for Paper Submissions
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Add Content Link
Turnitin assignment
Create assignment
Give it a name “Observation Paper”
Assignment title “Observation Paper”
Point Value “100”
Start Date
Due Date
Post Date
More options
Submit
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Switch to Teach Mode
Click on that assignment
Class list appears
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http://www.turnitin.com
Login … Add a class
Give it a name and enrollment password
◦ Which you will also give your students, as they will
have to enroll themselves
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I made a class for
◦ Misc Papers I need to check
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The assignment here is
◦ Misc paper
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Gives overall percentage match
Shows submitted paper
Shows sources of possible matches
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http://www.dso.ufl.edu/sccr/procedures/judicialprocess.php
http://www.dso.ufl.edu/sccr/documents/facultya.pdf
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I can show these now, if anyone is interested
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Email me if you’d like to plagiarize my slides.