Turnitin'com

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Turnitin.com
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Quickstart Tutorial for Students
This Student user guide will walk you through the
steps necessary to start submitting papers to
your instructors class.
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turnitin.com

• Internet-based plagiarism detection service.
• Turnitin has been helping millions of faculty and
  students in 51 countries to improve writing and
  research skills, encourage collaborative online
  learning, ensure originality of student work, and
  save instructors' time.

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Steps

• Step 1 - Setting Up Your User Profile
• Step 2 - Logging In
• Step 3 - Enrolling in a Class
• Step 4 - Submitting a Paper
• Option 1 - by cut and paste
• Option 2 - by file upload
• Step 5 - Viewing Your Submissions

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Step 1-Setting Up Your User Profile

• All Turnitin users must have a user profile.
• Click create a user profile to create a new
  user profile
• The new user wizard will walk you through the
  profile creation process.

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Setting Up Your User Profile-continue

• Follow the on-screen instructions.
• Select student to be the type of user.

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Setting Up Your User Profile-continue

• Once you have created your profile, you can use
  the class enrollment wizard to enroll in your
  first class by clicking the start class
  enrollment wizard link.

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Setting Up Your User Profile-continue

• If you would prefer to login and enroll in your
  class manually, click the "return to login page"
  link.

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Step 2-Logging In

• To login to Turnigin, enter your email address
  and password. Click login to open your student
  homepage.

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Step 3-Enrolling in a Class

• Unless your instructor has added you to his or
  her class, you will need to enroll in your class
  manually. To enroll in a class, click the "enroll
  in a class button or here.

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Enrolling in a Class-continue

• On the next screen, enter the class id and
  enrollment password. Please contact your
  instructor if he or she has not provided you with
  this information.
• Click submit to enroll in the class and add it to
  your homepage.

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Step 4-Submitting a Paper

• Your class now appears on your homepage. Click on
  the name of the class to "enter" your class and
  access your class portfolio.

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Submitting a Paper-continue

• You have now opened your class portfolio. Your
  portfolio shows the assignments your instructor
  has created. To submit a paper to an assignment,
  click the submit button next to an assignment.

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Submitting a Paper-continue

• The paper submission page will open.
• You can submit a paper in two ways
• By cut and paste
• By file upload

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Option 1-by cut and paste

• Select cut and paste form the submission
  pulldown menu.
• Enter a title for your paper.
• Then cut and paste your paper into the text box.

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Option 2-by file upload

• Select file upload form the submission pulldown
  menu.
• Enter a title for your paper.

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File upload-continue

• To select a paper for submission, click on the
  "browse" button and locate the paper on your
  computer.
• Papers can be submitted in MS Word, WordPerfect,
  RTF, PDF, PostScript, HTML, and plain text
  formats.
• Once you have completed the form, click on the
  "submit" button.

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File upload-continue

• Click yes, submit to confirm your submission.

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Step 5-Viewing Your Submissions

• After you confirm your submission, a digital
  receipt will be shown. This receipt will also be
  sent to you by email. To return to your portfolio
  and view your submission, click the portfolio
  button.

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Viewing Your Submissions-continue

• Then you will see your portfolio and the name of
  paper you submit.
• Every paper you submit can be viewed online by
  clicking on its title in your portfolio.

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Note

• you will have access to Originality Reports from
  your class portfolio only if your instructor
  allows students to view Originality Reports.