Digital Assessment Training

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Digital Assessment Training Trainer Sheena M.
Miles www.turnitin.com
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Turnitin Agenda

• Overview
• Educational Tool
• Process
• What Turnitin Searches
• Resourceful Information

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Turnitin Overview

• Jackson State University purchased a site license
  for
• Turnitin, which is available to all approved
  Faculty as
• An online plagiarism prevention system utilized
  to enhance a students
• writing,
• essays
• research
• publications for the development of research
  papers, and
• analytical skills.
• A complete web-based class management solution.
• Features of Turnitin allows for electronic
  peer reviewing, grading with

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Turnitin as a Educational Tool

• Turnitin is a digital educational tool that
  addresses
• the entire lifecycle of a student paper.
• Once a paper is submitted to Turnitin, a digital
  copy of the paper is
• created.
• The submission can then be checked for
  originality.
• All of the papers can then be reviewed by the
  student or instructor
• based on set policies/procedures for handling
  such.
• Advanced features of Turnitin allows for
  electronic peer reviewing, grading with
• insertion of digital comments and rubrics,
  and entering into a gradebook, as will
• be explored in future trainings.

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Turnitin Process

• 3 Easy Steps for engaging in Turnitin
• Start by creating a user profile.
• Using Turnitins wizard, you may then create
  classes and
• assignments.
• Papers may then be submitted to be matched
  against sources that are
• returned as originality reports.

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What Turnitin Searches

• Current and archived copy of the publicly
  accessible
• Internet (more than 5 billion pages indexed).
• Millions of published works from periodicals,
  journals,
• and publication databases.
• Millions of student papers previously submitted
  to
• Turnitin since 1996.
• Sample originality reports

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Resourceful Information

• As it is vital and highly suggested for students
  to be given access on
• their documenting sources, you may point them to
  the following
• address
• http//www.turnitin.com/research_site/e_home.html.
  
• For training videos and additional information on
  Turnitin, you may
• visit
• http//www.turnitin.com/static/training.html.

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Contact Information

• Sheena M. Miles
• Training Coordinator
• 601.979.4304 (voice)
• 601.371.9146 (fax)
• Sheena.m.miles_at_jsums.edu (e-mail)