Turnitin: Teacher Guide

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

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

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

References of Media on this Page:

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

Instructors (teachers) have the ability to remove a submission from the Inbox, however the submission still remains in the turnitin database.

Removing from the inbox

• Removes the paper from the assignment inbox, but not from the Turnitin database. If a student resubmits to the same assignment inbox, their new submission will not match the previous one. 

Permanently deleting

• Removes the submission from the Turnitin database. This action is final and cannot be undone. This requires administrator access 

Instructions from Turnitin Help at: https://helpcenter.turnitin.com/hc/en-us/articles/27811965025421-How-can-I-remove-a-submission-from-the-assignment-inbox

How can I remove a submission from the assignment inbox?

If you would like to remove a submission from an assignment, you can do this from the relevant assignment inbox.

Within the assignment, tick the checkbox for the paper you wish to remove; the Delete drop-down option will then appear. Click on the Delete button and select Remove From Inbox. This will remove the paper from the assignment.

Once a paper is removed from an assignment, instructors can then resubmit on behalf of the student, or the student can resubmit to the assignment themselves, if needed.

Please be aware that papers deleted from the assignment inbox are not permanently deleted. If a paper is submitted to the global repository, removing it from the assignment will not remove it from our database.

If you wish to permanently delete a submission and remove it from our database, you may be able to raise a paper deletion request with your Turnitin account administrator by selecting Request permanent deletion from the Delete drop-down menu instead.

AI Writing Capabilities & Turnitin FAQs

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 

Use CiteMaker to make your bibliographies