Turnitin for WTClass Blackboard
Welcome to Turnitin. Turnitin provides originality checking services, class management tools, and paperless digital grading products to educational institutions around the world.
This user guide provides thorough explanations of the features and products found in the Turnitin website that are available for use by instructors.
Turnitin products that may be available based on the purchase made by an institution include:
- OriginalityCheck - submitted papers are compared for matches or similar text to information in available repositories used by Turnitin. The results of this comparison are made available in the easy to read format of the Originality Report
- GradeMark digital assessment - student submissions are digitally marked and reviewed by the instructor in a paperless environment. Students are then able to view the results by logging into their Turnitin user profile
- PeerMark - student submissions are assigned to peers for review based on a series of free response and scale questions created by the instructor. Peer reviews can be anonymous or attributed
- GradeBook - an online tool allowing instructors to track student performance in a class and provide this information to students
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Tutorials
Assignment Management
- Creating a Turnitin Assignment
- Advanced Similarity Report Settings
- Advanced Online Grading Settings
- Editing a Turnitin Assignment
- Creating Revision Assignments
- Deleting a Turnitin Basic Assignment
- Downloading Papers
- File Types Displayed in the Document Viewer
Assignment Inbox
- Elements of the Assignment Inbox
- Locating the Assignment Inbox
- Assignment Inbox Navigation Bar
- Organizing the Assignment Inbox
- Viewing Papers
- Viewing Late Submissions
Grading
ETS e-Rater Grading
- Viewing e-Rater Feedback
- Dismissing and Revealing e-Rater Marks
- Adding Comments to e-Rater Marks
- Hiding e-Rater Feedback Categories
- When is e-Rater Feedback Released to Students
- Viewing the Turnitin Writer's Handbook
The Similarity Report
- Allow Any File Type
- Accessing the Similarity Report
- Accessing the Text-Only Similarity Report
- Excluding Quotes and the Bibliography
- Bibliography and Quote Exclusion Definitions
- Generating a New Similarity Report
- Interpreting the Similarity Report
- Multi-Color Highlighting
- How Can I Manage a High Similarity Match?
- Refining the Similarity Report
- Resizing Your Paper
- Similarity Scoring Scenarios
- Thumbnail Sidebar
- Viewing Excluded Sources
- Viewing Similarity Matches
- Viewing Sources
Making a submission
- Single-File Upload on Behalf of a Student
- Multiple-File Upload on Behalf of a Student
- Cut-and-Paste Submissions on Behalf of a Student
- Zip-file Upload on Behalf of a Student
- Activating Quick Submit
- Submitting Via Quick Submit
- Accessing Similarity Reports Via Quick Submit
- Digital Receipts
- File Requirements
PeerMark
- About PeerMark Assignments
- Creating a PeerMark Assignment
- Editing and Deleting PeerMark Questions
- Viewing the PeerMark Assignment Inbox
- Reordering PeerMark Questions
- Writing a Peer Review
- Writing a Review for a Selected Paper
- Using the PeerMark Tools Palette
- Adding Bubble Comments to a Review
- Adding Composition Marks to a Review
- Adding Inline Comments to a Review
- Viewing Peer Review Information
- Reading Peer Reviews
- Grading Peer reviews
- Editing Review Grades and Overall Grades
- Printing Peer Reviews
Commenting tools
- Adding Bubble Comments
- Adding QuickMarks
- Adding Inline Comments
- Adding Strikethrough Text
- Adding Text Summary Comments
- Recording Voice Comments
- Assigning Criteria to Bubble and QuickMark Comments
- Converting Bubble Comments to QuickMarks
- Deleting Bubble Comments
- Deleting Inline Comments
- Deleting Strikethroughs
QuickMarks
- Accessing the QuickMark Manager
- Creating New QuickMarks
- Changing QuickMark Set Visibility Options
- Creating a New QuickMark Set Using Existing QuickMarks
- Editing QuickMarks
- Copying QuickMarks to an Existing Set
- Archiving QuickMarks Restoring QuickMarks
- Searching for QuickMarks
- Downloading QuickMark Sets
- Uploading QuickMark Sets
- Deleting QuickMarks
- Filtering Visibility Options
Rubric scorecards and grading forms
- Rubric Scorecards
- Creating a Standard Rubric Scorecard
- Modifying a Rubric Scorecard
- Attaching a Rubric Scorecard to an Assignment
- Grading in the Rubric Side Panel
- Grading in the Expanded Rubric Manager
- Duplicating a Rubric Scorecard
- Downloading Rubric Scorecards
- Uploading Rubric Scorecards
- Assigning Criteria to Bubble and QuickMark Comments
- Creating a Grading Form
- Modifying a Grading Form
- Attaching a Grading Form to an Assignment
- Grading in the Grading Form Side PanelGrading in the Expanded Grading Form Manager
- Duplicating a Grading Form
- Downloading a Grading Form
- Uploading a Grading Form
Student Resources
- Submitting a paper to Turnitin in WTClass (Blackboard)
- Viewing and reading the Originality Report in Turnitin
- Using PeerMark
Videos
Turnitin Resources (By Turnitin.com)
Weekly and On Demand Training Webinars provided by Turnitin.
How to interpret a Turnitin Similarity Report
Senior Lecturer at the University of Wollongong, Dr. Ann Rogerson DBA Mgmt (Dist) MEd (Dist) JP will discuss how to interpret a Turnitin Similarity Report. Tune in to better understand Turnitin Similarity Reports, find out how to analyze Turnitin reports at a class and individual level, and learn how to use reporting filters available in Feedback Studio.
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What Students Say About Instructor Feedback
What do students value in terms of instructor feedback on their writing? And, how does the timing of the receipt of feedback impact the development of students’ writing skills? Turnitin recently conducted a survey of nearly 900 students to gather insights into how instructor feedback impacts the development of student writing.
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How do you engage students in the writing process? How do you reach both struggling students who need more personalized and in-depth feedback while challenging students that excel to do better—in a limited amount of time? And, how can we, as educators, help students to do more with their writing and meet them with where they're at?
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Stopping Plagiarism at the Source
Every teacher dreads it—the plagiarized paper, the confrontation with a student, the demise of trust and learning. As schools move toward an online future, educators are understandably concerned about increases in plagiarism. Yet while the problem is real, there are solutions beyond forcing teachers into the role of police.
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Students are often unaware of what constitutes plagiarism. The Plagiarism Spectrum was designed to help students see how plagiarism is defined and can take form.
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