Class ID: 2145042
Password: spring2008
Welcome to Turnitin! This user guide will walk you through the steps necessary to start submitting papers and peer reviews to your instructor ’s class.
Turnitin is available online at www.turnitin.com
Create a User Profile
To create a user profile:
1. Go to www.turnitin.com.
2. Click create a new user profile on the Turnitin homepage.
3. Follow the on-screen instructions. When you are done creating your profile, you will be asked if you want to use the student class enrollment wizard. We recommend that all new users use the wizard to enroll in their class.
If you choose to use the student class enrollment wizard, you can bypass the next several steps for your first session with Turnitin and skip to the section “Submitting a Paper ”.
Logging In/Logging Out
To login to Turnitin:
1. Go to www.turnitin.com.
2. At the top right, enter your email address and user password.
3. Click “login” to open your Turnitin homepage.
4. When you are through using Turnitin, click “log-out”.
Enrolling in a Class
Your student homepage lists your enrolled classes. If you are a new user, your homepage will be empty.
To enroll in a class:
1. Click the “enroll in a class” button on your homepage.
2. On the next screen,
enter the class id ___ and enrollment password _ _
for your class.
3. Click submit to enroll in the class and add it to your homepage.
If you do not have an class id and enrollment password, please contact your instructor.
Submitting a Paper
You will submit papers to your class from your class portfolio. To open your class portfolio, click a class name on your homepage.
The class portfolio lists the assignments your instructor has created and your submissions to these assignments.
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If there are no assignments in your portfolio, your instructor has not yet created class assignments. Until your instructor creates an assignment, you will not be able to submit a paper.
You can submit a paper in two ways:
• by file upload (used to submit a paper in file format; we currently accept submissions in MS Word, WordPerfect, RTF, PDF, PostScript, and HTML formats)
• by cut and paste (used to submit a paper in a file format we do not accept, by cutting and pasting the text into a text box)
To submit by file upload:
1. Click the submit button next to the desired assignment in your class portfolio.
2. Select “file upload ” from the submission pulldown menu.
3. Enter a title for your submission and an ID (optional).
4. Click the browse button and locate the paper you want to submit.
5. Click submit.
You will be asked to confirm the text of your submission. If the text checks out, click “yes,submit ” to finalize your submission.
After submitting a paper, you will receive a digital receipt. From this screen you can resubmit the paper, or proceed to your class portfolio to view the submission.
To submit by cut and paste:
1. Click the submit button next to the desired assignment in your class portfolio.
2. Select “cut and paste ” from the submission pulldown menu.
3. Enter a title for your submission and an ID (optional).
4. Cut and paste your paper into the text box.
To cut and paste text, highlight the text of a paper in a word processing or text editing program and select “copy ” from the edit menu. To transfer the text into your browser, place your mouse cursor in the text box of the submission page and select “paste ” from your browser ’s edit menu.
5. Click submit.
After submitting your paper you will receive a digital receipt. From this screen, you can resubmit your paper, or proceed to your class portfolio to view the submission.
Papers submitted to Turnitin are compared against billions of documents online, our local databases of submitted student papers, and the ProQuest and Gale commercial databases (optional). Any matching text we find is detailed in an Originality Report sent to your class portfolio.
You will be able to view Originality Reports only if your instructor has given you access to reports.