Turnitin Student Information
What is Turnitin?
Turnitin is a worldwide accepted online proprietary system to assist faculty and students in identifying unoriginal work. The university has a license with Turnitin (iParadigms) to allow submission of student work to be checked for originality. The potential for the software to identify documents that have plagiarized text not only works as a deterrent to plagiarism but also can be used as a means to teach students how to improve their writing and research skills.
For information regarding Turnitin Status and Scheduled Maintenance Times for Turnitin visit Turnitin's System Status page.
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A Tip for Students
Digital Receipts. Once you submit your paper successfully, a digital receipt with a PaperID will be displayed for students on screen and emailed to the student's @buffs.wtamu.edu email address. Be sure to locate this receipt. If a receipt is not received, go back and submit to the assignment again until a receipt is created.
Tutorials
Training Videos
- How to upload a paper into a Turnitin drop box
- How to view Instructor Comments and the Originality Report
Submitting a paper
- Assignment Inbox Preference and Help Menus
- Submitting a Paper
- File Requirements
- Resubmitting to an Assignment
The Similarity Report
- Accessing the Similarity Report
- Accessing the Text-Only Similarity Report
- Interpreting the Similarity Report
- Similarity Scoring Scenarios
- Multicolor Highlighting in the Similarity Report
- Viewing a Breakdown of Your Matches
- Viewing Source Details
- Viewing all Sources Associated with Your Paper
- Excluding Quotes and Bibliography
- Bibliography and Quote Exclusion Definitions
- Excluding Small Matches
- Similarity Report Generation After Resubmission
- Resizing Your Paper
- Using Thumbnails
- Using Layers
ETS e-rater
- Accessing e-Rater Feedback
- Instructor Comments on an e-Rater Mark
- Viewing the Turnitin Writer's Handbook
Paper feedback
- Overall Grade
- Rubric Scorecards
- Grading Forms
- Text Comments
- Recording Voice Comments
- Bubble Comments
- QuickMarks
- Inline Comments
- Strikethrough Text
- Viewing a Criterion
PeerMark™
Writing Resources
- Plagiarism.org: Plagiarism defined, tips, guidelines, suggestions, and answers to frequently asked questions.