Xavier University Library: 26 Steps to Information Fluency: Step 26: Turnitin

TurnItIn is a plagiarism prevention and detection service. Faculty may ask an entire class or individual students to submit their papers to TurnItIn. The professor may submit the paper for the student or ask the student to submit their own paper. Once a paper is submitted to TurnItIn a report is generated that shows what parts of the paper are similar to other papers that have been written. Students need to set up a user profile before they can submit their papers to TurnItIn. If your professor wants you to submit your own paper to TurnItIn they have to provide you with a class ID and password so you can set up a user profile.

Complete the Preventing Plagiarism tutorial in xu.tutor.
There is a quiz at the end of this tutorial. Follow these instructions for the quiz:
1. Enter your name in the Name textbox.
2. Enter your Xavier email address in the Email textbox.
3. Accept the default No Instructor in the Class selectbox.
4. Complete the quiz.
5. Click the Score button at the end of the quiz.Your quiz will redisplay showing your score as well as your correct and incorrect answers. You need to achieve 80% or better on each of your quizzes. If your score is under 80% review the pages of the tutorial that address the questions you answered incorrectly and take the quiz again.
6. Once you have a quiz that is 80% or better do one of the following:
  1. Print two copies: one for your professor as proof of completing this step and one for your records. You may get asked to take these tutorials again for another class and these quizzes provide the proof you need to get out of taking the tutorials again.
  2. Highlight the entire quiz, including your name and score at the top of the page. Then copy and paste it into a new entry for your e-portfolio (Expo Directory) in Blackboard. If you do not remember how to do this review these e-portfolio instructions.
Print these instructions for setting up a user profile and submitting a paper to Turnitin.
To set up your user profile you need the following information:
- Class ID = 1642985
- Password = nurse
Go to http://turnitin.com/
Set up your user profile.
Submit this sample paper to TurnItIn.
Generate a similarity report for the sample paper.
Once you have generated the report do one of the following:
1. Print two copies: one for your professor as proof of completing this step and one for your records.
2. Highlight the entire report. Then copy and paste it into a new entry for your e-portfolio (Expo Directory) in Blackboard. If you do not remember how to do this review the instructions.