Turnitin: Getting Started

Setting up your Course in Turnitin

1. When you receive your new Turnitin account by email, click the email validation link to confirm your account.
2. Once you are validated, you will then receive an additional email to confirm and set your password. Follow the instructions to set your password.
3. Login in to Turnitin with your new login and password at http://turnitin.com Links to an external site.
4. Once you have logged in, click the green +Add Class.
   
   
5. In the new form that appears, select Standard for the Class type or Master if you are going to have Teaching Assistants grade and access the course.
6. Enter your class name and an enrolment key to allow students to self-enrol and access the Turnitin class you have created.
7. In the subsequent form fields, you can enter the subject area, student level(s), and the class start and end date.
8. When you are finished completing the form, scroll down and click Submit.  The new class will be listed in Turnitin.

How to Create an Assignment in Turnitin

1. In the Turnitin class list page, select the class name you want to create an assignment in.
2. In the class homepage, click +Add Assignment.
   
   
   
3. In the creating an assignment form fill in a title for the assignment, the total amount of points given (Point Value), the Start Date, Due Date, and Post Date of the assignment. Hover your mouse pointer over the blue question mark for help and a description on each of these fields to fill in.
4. When you are finished, scroll down and click Submit.  The assignment will list in your Turnitin class. To edit the assignment details, at the right side of the the listed assignment, click More Actions and in the drop-down menu, click Edit Settings.
   

How to Manage Students on Turnitin

You can provide students with your enrolment key, class name and instructions found at this link https://lthub.ubc.ca/guides/turnitin/ in order for them to enrol into the class and submit an assignment.

To view which students have enrolled in the course, follow the below steps:

1. Log in to your Turnitin account and click the Students tab. If no students have enrolled in the course, no names will appear.
2. To add students into the course, select Add Student to manually add one student at a time. You can also create a file with student names and emails they have provided using Notepad for PC computers or TextEdit for Apple computers. Type one student name account per line and save the document as a text file. Type the student information as follows: John, Smith, johnsmith@yahoo.ca

3. Navigate back to the Student tab and click Upload Student List.
   
   
4. In the popup menu that appears, select Choose File to find your newly created student list text file. Once you have found and selected this list, select Upload List.
   

Emailing Students in Turnitin

1. Log in to your Turnitin.com account and in your course, click the Students tab
2. Below the Students tab and to the right of the heading STUDENTS, click Email all Students.
   
3. In the new message form that appears, enter a subject line and the message to the students.
   If you want to yourself a copy of the email, check the Include me box (a).
4. When finished, click Send (b).
   A message will now be sent to all students that you have enrolled under the course.
   

Grading Student Assignments in Turnitin

1. Log in to your Turnitin account and select your course. In your course page examine the STATUS (a) of the assignment listed. This is where you can see the number of students that are enroled in the course and the number of students that have submitted the assignment (b). Select View (c).
   
   
   The assignment submissions will appear similarly to the appearance of Speedgrader in Canvas. If Turnitin detects writing similar to others that are published by another author, the system will highlight the text with the type of colour correlating to how close the student submission is to the original text found online. Additionally, you can view the student's overall match or similarity score as a percentage. The higher the percentage, the more the student has plagiarized.
2. To give the student a score, click the blue checkmark box in the top right corner.
3. To enter comments on the student’s submission, click the pencil and box icon.
   

Exporting Grades from Turnitin

1. Log in to your Turnitin account and select the course you from which you want to export grades.
2. Click the Grade Book tab, and below the title of the class, click Export. Turnitin will download of a spreadsheet of the final grades with the file name “gradebook_export.xls.”