Turn-It-In Tutorial

1. Turn-It-In Tutorial Student User Guide

2. The turnitin website is www.turnitin.com you should see the below page

3. Click on the “create account “ tab on the upper right hand corner of the window The following page should appear when you click on the above

5. Click on the “student” tab at the bottom left of the page the following should appear

6. Please note you get the class ID and Class Enrollment Password from the lecturer

8. Mock entries are as alongside

9. Please note Password is Not necessarily your Email password

10. Click on “I agree---Create Profile” and the following should appear

11. Click on the lesson tab e.g. in this case, research paper 2nd year the following should appear

12. To submit an assignment, click on the “submit” tab

13. Fill in the required fields (marked in red). Then click on “browse” to access the assignment you want to upload

14. Dialogue Box A dialogue box should appear to ask you to locate the file

15. Once you have located your document, select it. The document name will appear on the file name space then click on “open”. Your screen will then have the following page

16. Once you click on “open” in the dialogue box, the file path will appear on the “Browse” space as above. You then click on “upload” to upload the assignment. The next page then appears

17. Click on “submit” after perusing through your paper and you are sure it is what you are to submit. The next page then appears

19. Click on “go to portfolio” to view status of submission.

20. For an assignment that is supposed to be submitted once, the window will appear as above. Click on “show details” to view the status report

21. For an assignment that can be resubmitted, the window will appear as above. Please notice you have the option to resubmit the assignment. If you click on “resubmit” you will be taken back to the uploading page to re-upload the assignment. The process is the same as the normal uploading.

22. For the assignment that you can still resubmit, the originality report will be shown but you as the student will not be able to view the sources until after the due date. The different shades should however give you an indication of how much is plagiarized. The side that has the [--] shows how much is plagiarized.

23. For an assignment that is the final assignment, you may view the percentage e.g. as above, it is 84%

24. Click on the icon below the “originality report” to view the report. The following should open on a new window

25. This side shows your document and color codes the plagiarized parts. The colors are not an indication of severity, rather it just highlights what is from where . E.g. the red parts on this side relate to the sources marked red on the opposite side This side tells you the sources from where the document was originally from

27. Recall that the first part was downloaded from http://mype.co.za.....? When I click on the link provided by Turnitin, it will open the site

28. Don’t plagiarize!! For assistance contact the Information Literacy & Reference section of the library.