GUIDE FOR

STUDENTS

RESEARCH & INFORMATION SERVICES DIVISION 2017-2018

How to use

Outlines

o Introduction

o How to access to Turnitin

o Getting Started – 4 easy steps

o Step 1 : Create User Profile/Registration

o Step 2 : Submit Paper

o Step 3 : Viewing Originality Reports

o Step 4 : Enroll In Additional Classes

What is Turnitin?

A web-based solution that puts the student’s paper at the CENTER of the Online Feedback Process.

A suite of educational tools for digital assessment and plagiarism prevention.

To Deter Plagiarism

To Hold Students Accountable

To Determine The Similarity Of Text

To Sources

To Enhance Teaching & Student Learning

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What Turnitin Search?

A current and archived copy of the publicly accessible Internet

(more than 60 billion pages indexed).

600 millions of student papers submitted to Turnitin since 1996.

Millions of published works from ProQuest, Emerald, EbscoHost,

Gale Cengage, Thomson Reuters, Science Direct, Pearson, McGraw-Hill,

The Gutenburg Collection, British Library, Yahoo, CrossRef (CrossCheck)

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What Turnitin Does?

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Originality Check

Matching passages from

50+ billion Internet web

pages: updated at a rate

of 60-240 million

pages/day.

Matching passages

from millions of

Student Papers or

Client Node.

Matching passages

from millions of

Books, Journals,

Newspapers.

Create

Originality

Report

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Student’s Essay

Internet Resources

Books, Journals, Newspapers

Submission Repository

What Does the Originality Report Show?

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Document Viewer

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Feedback Studio – Latest Interface

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4 Easy Steps

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Click here

to begin

Visit the Library Website http://www.lib.upm.edu.my

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STEP 1 : CREATE USER PROFILE (ONE-TIME ONLY)

1. Click Create Account

link in the upper right

corner of the Turnitin

homepage

(www.turnitin.com)

You will be directly linked

to the “Create a User

Profile“ page

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STEP 1 : CREATE USER PROFILE (ONE-TIME ONLY)

2. Click on the Student

link from the Create a

New Turnitin Account

screen.

3. Enter your Class ID

and Class Enrollment

Password in the

appropriate fields

Note: (Get the Class ID

and Class Enrollment

Password from your

Instructor/ Supervisor)

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STEP 1 : CREATE USER PROFILE (ONE-TIME ONLY)

4. Enter your first name,

your last name and the

e-mail address you

would like associated

with your Turnitin

account (this will be

your user name)

5. Enter (and re-enter) the

password you would

like to use as your

Turnitin login password.

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STEP 1 : CREATE USER PROFILE (ONE-TIME ONLY)

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6. Select a secret question

using the secret question

pull down menu, enter an

answer

7. Review the Turnitin user

agreement and click I

Agree and finalize user

profile creation.

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STEP 2 : SUBMIT PAPER

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1. Click on the Class Name

on the homepage.

2. Click on the Submit

button to the right of the

assignment name

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STEP 2 : SUBMIT PAPER

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3. Select the submission

method from the “choose a

paper submission method:"

pull down menu. Students

are advice to choose

Single File Upload.

4. Enter the paper title for

the submission in the

appropriate field

5. Students have a choice to

upload a file from the

Computer, Dropbox or

Google Drive. Click one

of the submission buttons

and then select the file you

would like to upload.

6. Click on Upload button

to upload the file.

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STEP 2 : SUBMIT PAPER

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7. Review the file and click

the Confirm button to

upload the file to the

assignment.

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STEP 2 : SUBMIT PAPER

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8. To return to your

portfolio and view your

submission, click the

Return to assignment

list button.

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STEP 3 : VIEWING ORIGINALITY REPORTS

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The Similarity Report

provides a summary of

matching or similar areas of

text found in a submitted

paper. Similarity Reports that

have not finished generating

will display the text

processing.

9. To view your Originality

Report, click at the

percentage (%) on the

“Similarity” column or

View button to the right

of the assignment.

Note: Color coding

for Turnitin

enabled

assignment

in grades.

The color

indicates how

much text has

been matched.

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STEP 3 : VIEWING ORIGINALITY REPORTS

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The Originality Report will

appear in a pop-up window.

10. Click on download icon

to download and print

report. Choose Current

View .

Total % of similarity

report

Thesis / assignment

Match overview to the sources

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STEP 3 : VIEWING ORIGINALITY REPORTS

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The full report will be

displayed in PDF format. You

can save/ print.

STEP 4 : ENROLL IN ADDITIONAL CLASSES

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1. Click on the enroll in a

class tab on your student

homepage.

2. Enter the class id and

enrollment password.

Get the Class ID and Class

Enrollment Password from

your Instructor/

Supervisor.

3. Click submit to enroll in

the class

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