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.
!
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.