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Turnitin: Staff Guides

Turnitin is a plagiarism detection and marking system.

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Getting Started

Introduction to Turnitin

This guide gives a brief overview of Turnitin and its functionality.

Setting Up a Turnitin Assignment

This guide explains how to set up a Turnitin assignment and goes through recommended settings to use.

Modifying or Deleting a Turnitin Assignment

This guide explains how to make a change to an assignment once it has been created, along with how to delete assignments.

PeerMark Assignments

PeerMark assignments allow students to read, review, and evaluate one or many papers submitted by their classmates.

Blackboard Assignment or Turnitin?

This guide highlights key differences between Blackboard and Turnitin to help staff choose which submission tool best serves their needs.

Academic Integrity Summary required for all summative assessments

An Academic Integrity summary needs to be added to the description field in Minerva on all links to summative assessments regardless of the tool being used to deliver the assessment. See the Academic Integrity Summary guide for guidance on how to add this for your Turnitin summative assessments, and the text you need to include.

Marking and Feedback

Introduction to Marking with Turnitin (browser)

This guide gives a brief introduction as to where to mark, and what can be marked using Turnitin Feedback Studio.

Navigating Feedback Studio

This guide explains how to navigate around Feedback Studio and the options available in the toolbar.

Marking Tools and Methods

This guide gives more detail on different the different marking tools and methods available within Feedback Studio.

Marking with the iPad App

The Turnitin App will allow you to mark student assessments using an iPad even if you do not have a Wi-Fi connection.

Return of Grades and Feedback

This guide explains how to release grades and feedback.

Moderation and Late Penalties

This guide gives with recommendations around moderation and applying late penalties.

Audio Feedback on Turnitin

How to add voice comment feedback of up to 3 minutes to assignments on Turnitin.

A to Z of Turnitin Guides

Looking for a particular guide? You may find the A to Z of Turnitin guides on this site helpful.

External Examiner Access

Quality Assurance have advised that all external examiners must have a Leeds IT account created before they can be given access to submissions and any other University systems (e.g. Minerva).

See, Leeds IT account for external examiners for more information.

Similarity

Using Turnitin to Support Plagiarism Detection

This guide explains how Turnitin can be used to support plagiarism detection in line with University policy.

Interpreting Similarity Reports

This guide explains how to open similarity reports, with links to Turnitin's guidance on how to interpret the report.

Plagiarism Detection FAQ

This guide covers frequently asked questions about the use of Turnitin in plagiarism detection.

Administration

Roster Synchronisation

This guide explains how to synchronise the Turnitin roster with your Minerva module.

Downloading Submissions

This guide explains how to download individual papers and perform a bulk download.

How to download submissions from Turnitin with rubric marks included

There are two ways to download Turnitin submissions with rubric marks included. Find out more here.

Deleting Assignments

This guide explains how to delete student submissions.

A paper is showing as Read Only in Turnitin

This guide explains how to re-enable classes to access papers that are showing as Read Only.

Copying Turnitin assignments

Turnitin has a copy assignment feature which you can use to copy previous assignment settings. Find out more here.

Identify and email students who have yet to submit Turnitin assessments

This guide explains how to identify and email students who have yet to submit Turnitin assessments

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