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UNIVERSITI PUTRA MALAYSIA
INFORMATION MANAGEMENT DIVISION, PSAS2013
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Turnitin is a suite of educational tools for digital assessment and plagiarism prevention.
Turnitin….
To Deter Plagiarism
To Hold Students Accountable
To Enhance Teaching & Student Learning
To Determine The Similarity Of Text
To Sources
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ORIGINALITY REPORT
Matching passages from 12+ billion Internet web pages: updated at a rate of million pages/day
Matching passages from millions of Student Papers or Client Node
Compare matching passages to original manuscript or article
Matching passages from millions of Books, Journals, Newspapers
Create Originality Report
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WHAT TURNITIN SEARCHES?
A current and archived copy of the publicly accessible Internet (more than 12 billion pages indexed)
90 millions of student papers submitted to Turnitin since 1996
Millions of published works from ProQuest, Emerald, EbscoHost,Gale Cengage, Thomson Reuters, Science Direct, ABC-CLIO, The Gutenburg Collection and CrossRef (CrossCheck).
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Getting Started…
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Visit the library website:http://www.lib.upm.edu.my
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Click here
START by log in to Turnitin with your e-mail address and password
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Adding a class
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1. Click “Ädd Class” button to create a class
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2. Select class type = ‘Standard’
3. Enter a ‘Çlass Name’ & ‘enrollment password’
4. Select appropriate subject area(s) and student level(s)
5. Select ‘çlass end date’. Paper cannot be submitted after this date
6. Click ‘submit’
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Important!Class ID and Enrollment password should be distributed to your student
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7. The class will now appear in your class list
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Create a new assignment
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8. Click ‘New Assignment’ button to create an assignment
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9. Select ‘Paper Assignment’
10. Click ‘Next Step’
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11. Enter ‘Assignment title’
12. Enter ‘Start date’- Students are
only able to submit once the start date and time has passed
13. Enter ‘Due date’- Student will be
blocked from submitting papers after the due date
14. Click ‘Optional setting’
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**Optional settingThese 3 parameters must be set as follows:
To view student report
15. Click ‘View’ link in the ACTIONS column
16. Click on the “% of similarity” in the SIMILARITY column to the details of the report
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On the instructor homepage, click on the çlass name’ e.g. Turnitin Class
Details of similarity report – New feature version
Your thesis/assignment
Match overview to the sources
Download & Print the report
Total % of similarity report
Details of similarity report – old feature version
Your thesis/assignment
Match overview to the sources
Print report
Download the report
Total % of similarity report
Breakdown similarity report by sources
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Filter / edit the report
17. From the ‘Match overview’ box, click on selected sources
18. Click on the “Exclude Sources” button.- The sources that were excluded (e.g:1%) affects to the Similarity Index, it will recalculate and display a new percentage.
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‘Exclude Bibliography’ -supervisor can remove the reference list or bibliography from the similarity index
‘Exclude Quotes’- Text that appears between quotation marks in a paper. indentation or direct quotation marks (“”) begin and end the quotation.
‘Exclude matches’- Can exclude the matches either word count or by percentage. The matches that are less than (number of words) or (% of the text in a match ) will not be include in the similarity index.
This feature can be adjusted any time.
