TurnItIn.com

A Teaching Resource

 

TurnItIn.com is more than a way to fight student plagiarism. It allows teachers to post class notes, assignments, calendars, and links to class web sites. TurnItIn.com also provides a peer editing option for papers submitted by students.  Each individual teacher can decide how he/she will choose to use the available options with his/her students.

 

Creating your profile:

1. Log on to http://www.turnitin.com
2. At the main screen, click on "User Login."

 

 

3. Click on "Click here to get started" to create your user profile.

 

 

 

4. Follow the directions on the screen.  Be sure to use the email address that you check regularly, preferably your Newton County one.  Choose a password you can remember.

 

 

5. Fill in the personal information on the form.  Use your school address for security purposes.

 

6. The next screen will be a summary of the information you entered.  If it is correct, click on "next."
7. You will then get the following message:
   • "Thanks for signing up for Turnitin.com! Your user profile, along with your new user password, has been sent to your email address. To start using Turnitin.com, please proceed to the login page and login using your new user information."
8. You are now ready to login! 

 

Login & Joining New Account:

 

1. Login using your email address & the password you selected.  Be sure to select "faculty"

 

 

2. Click on "Join New Account."  You will need your individual school account number and account join password to complete this step.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3. Enter your school's account number & account join password in the appropriate blanks.

 

 

4. Once you have successfully completed the "Join New Account" step, you should see the screen below.  You are now ready to set up your classes.

Adding & Managing Classes:

1. Click on "add class"
2. Enter the class name, course number (optional), the password your students will need to login, and the class level.  You may also enter a description of the class if you wish.  Click on "submit."

3. A "new class confirmation" window will pop-up.  It assigns the class a class ID & shows the enrollment password you chose.  Your students will need this information should you choose to allow them to logon to the various features available through TurnItIn.com.
4. Your classes will now be listed on the page:

5. To work with a class, click on it. The "inbox" for that class will pop up.  From your class inbox, you are able to create assignments, class notes, post dates to the calendar, see which students have joined the class, select papers available for peer review, & upload papers to the plagiarism checker.  You can also set class preferences from the class inbox.