leadership and implementation planning

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Planning for Success

Leadership andImplementation Planning


Leadership Planning Session: Objectives

• Have a common understanding of the functions & potential benefits of Turnitin.

• Clarify goals and expectations for implementing Turnitin.

• Identify obstacles and challenges of implementation.

• Discuss means of overcoming obstacles and challenges to ensure a smooth implementation.

• Locate resources for professional development in order to train students, instructors and Turnitin campus administrators.


Leadership Planning Session: Overview

1. Introduction to Turnitin

2. Turnitin Implementation

3. Program Goals and Measuring Success

4. Handling Concerns Upfront

5. Planning Training & Professional Development


Benefits for Teaching.Impact on Learning.

Introduction to Turnitin

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A Web-based Solution That Puts the Student’s Paper at theCENTER of the Online Feedback Process

What is Turnitin?

Engages Students

Prevents Plagiarism

Delivers Rich Feedback

Manages Assignments and

Collaboration


Learn more…

• Turnitin Suite Overview on YouTube:http://vimeo.com/30553739

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Turnitin Implementation Model

L.E.A.R.N.

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Implementation Model – L.E.A.R.N.

•Learn About Turnitin

•Educate Stakeholders

•Activate Users

•Reinforce the Value of Turnitin

•Note Usage and Success


Learn About Turnitin

• Learn About the Products and Features– It is important to have a clear understanding what Turnitin is. Watch these

demonstration videos to get an overview of what Turnitin can do and how it will benefit your instructors and students.

• Learn About the Educational Impact– Read about the effectiveness of Turnitin as well as white papers and case

studies that reveal how institutions, instructors and students benefit from its use.

• Attend a Live Walk-through– Join the Turnitin product support team as they walk you through the basic

functionality and navigation of Turnitin from an instructor's perspective.

• Watch or Read Training Tutorials – Go to the training center and watch our collection of training videos for

administrators, instructors and students. Each short video covers a specific topic on using Turnitin.


EDUCATE Stakeholders

• Educate Administrators, Leaders & Key Personnel– Identify key people responsible for the successful implementation of

Turnitin and orient them to Turnitin. Take time to explore the features and functionality.

• Develop an Outreach Plan– How will you let everyone know the school will be using Turnitin? We'll walk

you through key steps in developing an outreach plan, provide some supporting content, and bring up some often overlooked considerations.

• Train Instructors– When it comes time for instructor training, use these guides and templates

to ensure smooth informational and training sessions that cover all the important points.

• Educate Students– While you likely won't be training students en masse, these resources will

help you train instructors on how to educate students.


ACTIVATE Users

• Activating instructor accounts is a crucial step in getting them started with Turnitin.

• Instructors must have joined your institution's account before before they can begin using Turnitin.

• Instructors can be added to your Turnitin account in three ways:– List Upload– Individual Entry– Instructor Joins Account


REINFORCE the Value of Turnitin

• Teaching Tips– Share Turnitin teaching tips as part of other communications to your

instructors throughout the year to keep instructors aware of some Turnitin best practices.

• Continued Training– Offering continued training focused on specific Turnitin products, features

or outcomes is essential in maximizing the effectiveness and efficiency needed to truly save instructors time and engage students.

• Attend Webinars– Turnitin offers live and recorded professional development webinars geared

toward taking instructors beyond just plagiarism prevention and toward a powerful pedagogy for writing to learn.

• Encourage Sharing– Sharing your school's success stories, results, best practices, and

testimonials about Turnitin creates social proof of Turnitin's efficacy, which in turn leads to more instructors to use it.


NOTE Usage• Viewing Account Statistics

– Statistics are available for top-level accounts and sub-accounts which include the number of instructors and students in your accounts as well as usage information.

• Benchmark Comparison– See how your institution's usage stacks up to other school's like

yours? This usage benchmark guide will help you see where you are excelling at and where you can focus training on.

• Programmatic Assessment– Evaluate whether the goals you set at the beginning of the term

were achieved at the instructor, programatic, and campus levels.


Measuring Success.

Establishing Program Goals


Establishing Program Goals

What are some goals you have set for yourself to improve the use of Turnitin?


Program Goals

• Establish short and long term goals …

• How does Turnitin support the institution’s goals?

• How will your instructors use Turnitin to address these goals?

• How will you measure progress toward goals?

• What evidence will you gather and use?


Program Goals

Examples of Long Term Goals:• Establish or reinforce high standards of academic

integrity

• Protect the value of degrees granted

• Improve student performance on written assignments

• Enable instructors to utilize more written assignments across the curriculum … without dramatically increasing their workload

• Improve overall academic effectiveness


Program Goals

Examples of Specific Short Term Goals:• 80% of instructors will be familiar with and use the

core Turnitin components 2-4 times a semester

• Instructors require one student assignment submitted online per term

• Use Turnitin once a month to teach students how and why to document sources.

• Increase opportunities for student peer interaction by using Discussion Boards for 1 assignment per class per semester.


Handling Concerns Upfront


Considerations

Organizational considerations include:• Personnel needs

– Identify a Turnitin Administrator and sub-administrators, as needed

– Identify 1-2 “go to” champions for each campus, if possible

• Assess technology needs

• Review and adjust school policies regarding plagiarism


Turnitin Administrator

Role & Responsibilities:• Creates and manages the campus Turnitin account of sub-

administrators and users.

• Assists instructors in creating their user profiles and using the resources available as part of their classroom and curriculum.

• Updates account users of announcements from Turnitin, such as scheduled downtimes, etc.

• Tracks usage and efficacy using account statistics and generates reports on usage and efficacy to campus administrators and implementation specialists to assess implementation goals.


Turnitin ChampionsRole & Responsibilities:• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

• High energy and willingness to help others

• Strong technology skills; self-starter in learning new skills

• Able to attend all professional development sessions

• Is given time in schedule to support other instructors

• Experience in recognizing instructors who are struggling and identifies needs and suggests options to meet those needs

• Works well with English department and all cross functional departments; has respect from all colleagues and is seen as a leader in the organization

• Guides instructors toward the resources needed to use Turnitin as part of their curriculum


Planning ProfessionalDevelopment


Planning Professional Development

Use best practices in planning training & professional development:

• Consistent use leads to best results

• Reinforce the message every term

• Keys to success: – Instructor training to get started– Professional development emphasizes use as

instructional support for formative assessment — rather than just for "plagiarism deterrence and policing”



• Initial training for instructors

• Ongoing classroom support

• Ongoing communications

• Retraining

• Advanced training



• Administrator Training– Initial– Campus Administrator will provide ongoing instructor support

• Instructor Training– Initial– Mid-year checkpoint– End-of-the-year

• Student Training– Instructors will provide training resources to students within

their courses– Library staff will support students in their research – Writing Center staff will support students in their writing


Training Resources

• Quickstart Guides & Manuals

• Training Videos

• Training Articles

• Live online walk-through sessions (6x per week)

• Turnitin Academy webinars (Live & Recorded)

• Help Center Articles


Turnitin Academy Live WebinarsInteractive webinars geared toward taking instructors beyond just plagiarism prevention and toward a powerful pedagogy for 'writing to learn.’ Topics include:

– Pushing Past Plagiarism with OriginalityCheck– Peer Review Across the Curriculum with PeerMark– Offering Meaningful Feedback with GradeMark– Teaching Effective Source Integration– Assessing Written Work w/ Turnitin– Managing Students and Assignment– Teaching the Writing Process w/ Turnitin– Developing 21st Century Skills w/ Turnitin– Best Practices for Teaching w/ Turnitin– Turnitin Implementation and Leadership Planning

http://community.turnitin.com/academy

http://community.turnitin.com/academy


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