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Turnitin: Teacher Guide

What is Turnitin?

Turnitin is a tool that supports academic honesty and expectations of students to:

  • submit original work and improve writing
  • learn how to paraphrase and quote
  • learn how to acknowledge other people's work appropriately
  • learn how to identify plagiarism
  • learn how to avoid collusion

Turnitin is software that compares an assignment with:

  • websites and internet sources
  • text from online journals, magazines and books
  • assessments that have been submitted by students in previous and current cohorts from Whitefriars, and student assessments globally
 

References of Media on this Page:

RMIT University Library. (2021, October 27). What is Turnitin? [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/7lsBltqZREo

Turnitin Settings in Seqta for WFC

Option 1 - one submission from each student. Teacher only sees the similarity report. 

This video produced by Greg Port from All Saints' College (W.A.) shows how to set up Turnitin in Seqta, teacher view, student submissions and then viewing student submissions. View video up to 2:30min for WFC relevance.  

However, note, the 'Feedback Studio and Mark book' facility he refers to is not used at Whitefriars.

Option 2 - students submit up to 3 times. Student can see similarity report. 24 hrs required in between submission attempts (CHECK THIS)

INSERT VIDEO WITH SETTINGS INSTRUCTION HERE

Tips & Known Issues for WFC

Question Templates:

If you normally use a template for the students to fill in.  When using Turnitin, a template in each student submission will 'match' and skew the similarity results.  It is best to have the questions separate to the student submission


Student submission file names:

Student submissions will appear in the Turnitin list all together for one subject rather than in classes for each teacher.  One suggestion so each teacher's submissions will file together is asking the students to name the file with the teacher's surname first  e.g. LAFFERTY John Bloggs Religion Assignment 3

File Types Checked for Similarity

Where does the student upload their assignment?

Where to find the student submissions

Select overview of assessments and select the Turnitin symbol

Interpreting the Similarity Report

References of Media on this Page:

Turnitin. (2021, March 8). Similarity report : Turnitin originality [Video]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-udZDlAiDpg

Note-taking

1. Carefully read over the note taking tips and note taking styles from the State Library of Victoria's links above

2. Read through the two Note-Taking Template attached above.

3. Copy and paste the original information from your resource  into the Note Taking Template.

4. Highlight keywords and phrases

5. Rewrite in your own words using dot points 

Quoting, Paraphrasing & Summarising

Acknowledging Others' Work (Referencing)

Use CiteMaker to make your bibliographies

Avoiding Plagiarism

Avoiding Collusion

Turnitin FAQs