Instructor User Guide (updated 8.17.

05)

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Turnitin Instructor User Guide Contents

Contents

1 Getting Started 6
Creating Your User Profile 6

Logging In 6

Joining an Account 7

Creating a Class 7

Creating an Assignment 8
Getting Your Students Started 10

Submitting Papers 13

Assignment Inbox 15

Managing Students 17

2 Plagiarism Prevention 18
Originality Reports 18

3 Peer Review 23
Overview 23

Creating a Peer Review 23

Viewing Paper Distributions 27

Writing a Review 28

Reading Reviews 29
Creating a Writing Review 30

4 GradeMark™ 32
Marks 32

Rubrics 34

Additional Functions 36

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5 GradeBook 38
Point Values 38

Adding Entries 38

GradeBook Preferences 39

Entering Grades 40

GradeBook Student Page 40

Scaling and Dropping Grades 42

Graphing Tools 43
Attendance 44

Exporting GradeBook 44

GradeBook Key 44

6 Digital Portfolio 45
Creating a Portfolio Assignment 45

Submitting Files 46

Portfolio Inbox 46

7 Class Calendar 47
Opening the Calendar 47

Assignment Dates 47

Calendar Entries 47

Uploading a Syllabus 49

Calendar List 50

8 Discussion Boards 51
Posting a Discussion Topic 51

Posting a Reply 52

Discussion Views 53

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Moderation 55

Letting Students Post Topics 56

9 Libraries 57
Assignment Library 57

Rubric Library 58

Peer Review Library 59

Topic Question Library 59

Metric Library 60

10 Class Sections 62
Creating a Master Class 62

Adding Sections 62

Administering a Master Class 63

Creating Assignments 64

Student Enrollment 65

GradeBook 66

Calendar 66

Preferences 67

11 Quick Submit 68
Accessing Quick Submit 68

Submitting Papers 68

12 Preferences & Notifications 70

User Preferences 70

Class Preferences 71

Messages and Announcements 71

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13 Statistics 72
Statistics Overview 72

Viewing Rubric Statistics 72

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1 Getting Started

Welcome to Turnitin! This user guide will provide

you with a thorough introduction to our plagiarism
prevention system and class management tools.
Turnitin is available online at www.turnitin.com.

Creating Your User Profile

All Turnitin users must create a user profile. If you
have previously used Turnitin, are an account admin-
istrator, or if your administrator has already added
you to an account, you will already have a user profile
and can skip ahead to the next section Logging In.

If you are new to Turnitin and your administrator has

not yet added you to an account, you need to create a
profile.

To create a user profile:

1. Go to www.turnitin.com.
2. Click create a user profile on the Turnitin homep-
age .
3. Follow the on-screen instructions. When you are  The new user link on the Turnitin homepage.
done creating your profile, you will be asked if
you want to use the instructor startup wizard.
We recommend that all new users use the wizard
to setup their first class. At the end of the profile
creation process, you will be logged in to Turnitin.
! If you used the instructor startup wizard, you
can bypass the next few steps proceed to Getting
Your Students Started in this chapter. If you do
not use the startup wizard, skip ahead to Creat-
ing a Class.

Logging In
To login:
1. Go to www.turnitin.com.
2. At the top right, enter your e-mail address and
user password.
3. Click Log In to open your Turnitin homepage .  The login button on the Turnitin homepage.

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Joining an Account
Your instructor homepage lists your account and any
classes you have created. If an account is not listed
on your homepage, you will need to join an account
before you can start using Turnitin.

To join an account:
 Click join account to open the join account page.
1. Click the join account tab at the top left of your
Turnitin homepage .
2. On the next screen, enter the account ID and join
password for your account.
3. Click the submit button to add the account to
your homepage .
! If you do not have an account ID and join pass-
word, please contact your institution’s account  A newly joined account on the instructor homepage.
administrator.

Creating a Class
Most of your activity at Turnitin will take place
within a class or classes that you create. You can use
classes (and assignments within them) to structure
and organize your students’ submissions. You may
have one or many Turnitin classes depending on how
you choose to use the system.
The add class link on the instructor homepage.
To create a class:
1. Click the add a class link on your instructor
homepage .
2. On the next screen, enter the following:
• a class name
• a class enrollment password (Students will use
this password to enroll in your class. Make sure
your password is easy for your students to re-
member, and take note of the password so you
can distribute it to your students.)
3. Choose an end date for your class. Once the end
date has passed, the class will expire and will not
be accessible by you or your students (refer to the  Click the checkbox to let students view reports.
next section Expired Classes for more information).
4. If you want to let students view their own reports,
click the checkbox next to the view reports option
.

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5. Click submit to add the class. You will now see

your new class homepage and a pop-up confirma-
tion window, containing the Turnitin class ID for
your class.
! Make careful note of your class ID. Your students
will need this number and your enrollment pass-
word to enroll in your class.

Expired Classes
 Select "expired" to view your expired classes
Each class you create has an end date. When a class
reaches its end date, it expires and enters a read-only
state. You and your students will not longer be able to
submit papers and peer reviews to an expired class.

When a class expires, it no longer appears with your

active classes. To view expired classes, select expired
using the pulldown on your homepage . Only those
classes that are expired will be shown. If you would
like, you can view all classes by selecting all classes  Click to update your class and change its end date
with the pulldown.
If a class has expired and you want to make it an
active class, click the class update button . From the
class update screen, you can change the end date for
the class.

Creating an Assignment
 Click a class name to open its homepage.
All papers are submitted to assignments that you
create. Assignments for a given class are created, dis-
played, and modified from the class homepage. Click
on the name of a class to open its homepage .

To create an assignment:
1. Click the create a new assignment link .
2. On the next page, enter the following:
 Click create a new assignment to add an assignment.
• assignment title
• point value (optional; shown only if Grade-
Book is active)
• special assignment instructions (optional)
3. Select a start and due date for the assignment. If
you would like, you can also choose specific start
and due times for your assignment. Students can
begin submitting papers to an assignment once
the start date arrives and will be blocked from

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submitting papers once the due date has passed.

4. Choose whether you want to receive Originality
Reports for papers submitted to this assignment.
The default is yes.
5. Click submit to finalize the assignment. It will ap-
pear on your class homepage.

Advanced Assignment Options

When you create a paper assignment, you can choose

to view advanced assignment options using the
pulldown at the bottom of the assignment creation
form . With advanced assignment options, you
can choose from the following Originality Report
options:  Select "yes" to view advanced assignment options
1. Generate Originality Report for student submis-
sions:
• immediately (first report is final)
Reports will be generated immediately for all
submissions and students cannot resubmit
their papers (default).
• immediately (can overwrite reports until due
date)
Reports for a student's initial submission will
be generated immediately. Students can choose
to resubmit their papers and receive Original-
ity Reports as many times as they would like
up until the assignment's due date. Please note
that reports are generated immediately only for
a student's first submission; reports for subse-
quent submissions are delayed 24 hours.
• on due date
Originality Reports will not be generated for
submissions until the assignment's due date.
Students can submit their papers as many times
as they would like up until the assignment's due
date.
2. Choose whether you want to allow student sub-
missions after the assignment due date.
3. Allow other papers to be checked against submis-
sions? Choose yes if you want papers submitted
to this assignment indexed in our database. If you
do not want papers submitted to this assignment
stored in our database and used for future plagia-
rism searches, select no.
4. Select the sources you want papers submitted to

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this assignment checked against. The three sourc-

es you can choose from are:
• student paper database that includes all papers
submitted to Turnitin
• current and archived internet
• ProQuest
5. If you make changes to the advanced options, a
pulldown will appear. To save the options you
have selected for assignments you create in the
future, select yes using the save options pulldown.
Click submit to create your assignment using the
specified advanced assignment options.

Revision Assignments

Students can only submit one paper per assignment.

If you would like your students to submit another
draft of their paper, you can create a revision assign-
ment. Revision assignments make duplicating an
assignment easy and ensure that revised submissions
are not compared against previously submitted drafts.

To create a revision assignment, click the create a new  Click to create a revision assignment.
assignment link on your class homepage . Using the
pulldown at the top of the assignment page, select
revision assignment . The revision form will open.
You will need to select a paper assignment for the
revision assignment. You will also need to enter dates
and optional assignment instructions and a point
value (appears only for GradeBook users).

Getting Your Students Started

After you have set up your first assignment, you and  Select revision assignment to add a revision to an existing
paper assignment.
your students are ready to start submitting papers. If
you are going to submit papers yourself, you can skip
to the next section, Submitting Papers.
! We strongly recommend you have students sub-
mit papers themselves. This will save you time
and enable you to use other products such as
Peer Review, GradeMark, and GradeBook.

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Enrolling Your Students

Students must be enrolled in your class to submit

papers. Students can enroll themselves by creating
a user profile and using your class ID and password
information, or you can manually enroll students in
your class.  Click the stats icon to view your class enrollment password.

To have your students enroll:

1. Give your students your class ID and class enroll-
ment password. If you have forgotten this infor-
mation, you can access it at any time by clicking
the stats icon next to the name of your class on
your Turnitin homepage .
2. Instruct your students to create user profiles at
Turnitin, just as you did. They will be able to use  Click the students tab to open your students page.
the student class enrollment wizard to get set up
and start submitting papers.
If you prefer to manually enroll students in your class,
you can add students individually or all at once.

To enroll students individually:

1. Click the students tab on the class bar to open  Click the add student link to add a student to your class.
your students page .
2. Click the add student link .
3. On the following screen, enter the student’s first
name, last name, and e-mail address.
4. Click submit to enroll the student in your class.
The student will be added to your student list .
 A student enrolled in a class.
If you would like, you can enroll all of your students
at once by submitting a list of your students in a text,
MS Word, or MS Excel file. Each student should be
listed in this format (one student per line):
Joe,Brown,jbrown@mydomain.com
Once you have put together a list of students, you can
upload it to your class from your students page.
 Click to upload a text file containing student information.
! Your student list will be rejected if it contains
100 or more students.

To enroll students all-at-once:

1. From your students page, click the upload student
list link .
2. On the page that opens, click the Browse button

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and locate your student list file. Click submit to

upload the list.
3. The information from the file will be shown. If
it is correct, click yes, submit . If it is incorrect,
click no, go back to select a different file.  Click to submit your student list.
4. The final screen displays the newly enrolled stu-
dents. To return to your student list, click the fin-
ish link . To submit another list, click resubmit
.
The students will be added to your student list and
can log in and start submitting papers.
 Click to return to your student list.
Enrollment E-mails and Login Status

As soon as you add a student to your class a confir-

mation e-mail is sent to the student. Until the student
logs in for the first time, the enrollment date next to
the student's name is highlighted in red . Once the
student logs in, the red highlight will disappear.
 Click to submit another student list.
If you've entered an incorrect e-mail address for
a student or if a student never received his or her
enrollment e-mail, you can resend the enrollment
e-mail by clicking on the enrollment date highlighted
in red . On the form that opens, you can resend
the enrollment e-mail by clicking the submit button.
If you entered an incorrect name or e-mail address
for the student, you can change this information and
click submit to send the enrollment e-mail to the new
e-mail address  The red highlight shows that a student has not yet logged in.

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Submitting Papers
For instructors, there are four ways to submit papers
to Turnitin:
• file upload (used to submit a single paper in
file format; we accept submissions in Microsoft
Word, WordPerfect, RTF, PDF, PostScript, plain
text, and HTML formats)
• bulk upload (used to submit multiple papers in
file format, just like adding attachments to an
e-mail)
• cut and paste (used to submit a paper in a file
format we do not accept, by cutting and pasting
the text into a text box)
• zip file (used to submit multiple papers as a
single zip file)
To submit a paper to an assignment, click the submit
icon next to the desired assignment on your class
homepage .  Click the submit icon next to an assignment.

To submit a paper by file upload:

1. Select file upload from the submission pulldown
menu .
2. Select an enrolled student using the pulldown
menu on the submission page. Papers that you
submit on behalf of a student will appear in the
student’s portfolio, just as if the student submitted
the paper to your class.
or  Choose your submission method.

If you are submitting a paper for a student not

enrolled in your class, enter the student’s first and
last name.
! Papers you submit for non-enrolled students
cannot be used for Peer Review or GradeMark.
3. Enter a title for the submission.
4. Click the Browse button and locate the paper you  Click Browse to locate a paper on your computer.
want to submit .
5. Click submit. On the following page you will be
asked to confirm the text of the submission. If
the text checks out, click yes, submit to finalize the
submission .

 Click yes, submit to finalize the submission..

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To submit by cut and paste:

1. Select cut and paste from the submission pull-
down menu.
2. Select an enrolled student using the pulldown
menu on the submission page. Papers that you
submit on behalf of a student will appear in the
student’s portfolio, just as if the student submitted
the paper to your class.
or
If you are submitting a paper for a student not
enrolled in your class, enter the student’s first and
last name.
3. Enter a title for the submission.
4. Cut and paste the paper into the text box and click
submit.
! To cut and paste text, highlight the text of a pa-
per in a word processing or text editing program
and select copy from the edit menu. To transfer
the text into your browser, place your mouse
cursor in the text box of the submission page
and select paste from your browser’s edit menu.

To submit multiple papers using bulk upload:

1. Select bulk upload from the submission pulldown
menu.
2. Select an enrolled student using the pulldown
menu on the submission page. Papers that you
submit on behalf of a student will appear in the
student’s portfolio, just as if the student submitted
the paper to your class.
or
If you are submitting a paper for a student not
enrolled in your class, enter the student’s first and
last name (optional – defaults to "anonymous" if a
first or last name is not entered).
 Click Browse to locate a paper on your computer.
3. Click the Browse button and locate the first paper
you want to submit .
4. Enter a paper title (optional – defaults to the
name of the submitted file if nothing is entered)
5. Click the attach button to add the paper to your
batch .
6. Repeat steps 2 through 5 for each paper you want
to submit.  Click attach to add the selected paper to your batch.
7. When you are done adding papers, click the sub-

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mit button to upload the batch of papers.

To submit multiple papers as a zip file:

1. Select zip file from the submission pulldown
menu.
2. Click Browse and locate the zip file containing the
papers you want to submit.
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3. Click submit to view the papers in the zip file. You
can choose whether you want to submit a paper
by clicking the checkbox in the include? column
. For each paper you submit, you can select an  Select whether to include an individual submission.
enrolled student in your class or you can enter the
following information:
• author’s last name (defaults to anonymous)
• author’s first name (defaults to anonymous)
• paper title (defaults to file name)
When you are finished entering information for
the papers, click submit to upload the papers to
your class.  Click the inbox icon to open an assignment’s inbox.
Papers you submit are accessible from the assignment
inbox.

Assignment Inbox
Each assignment has an inbox containing the papers
that have been submitted to the assignment. To open
an assignment's inbox, click on the icon in the inbox  To read a paper, click the paper’s title.
column on your class homepage .

Viewing and Downloading Papers

Every paper submitted to your class can be viewed

online by clicking on its title in the inbox . You can
download a paper to your computer in file format
by clicking on the file icon . To download multiple
papers at once, click on the checkboxes next to the  Click a file icon to download a paper to your computer.
papers you want to download and click the download
button .

 Download multiple papers at once.

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Viewing Originality Reports

Originality Reports document potential plagiarism.

Any text from the paper matching text in our da-
tabase is linked to its original source. To access any
paper’s Originality Report, click on the report icon
for the desired paper .  Click a report icon to open a paper’s Originality Report.

Organizing Your Inbox

If you are teaching a class with many students, your

inbox can sometimes become large and unmanage-
able. You can organize papers in your inbox in several
ways, including:
• sorting by column header  Sort papers by clicking on a header.
Click on the top of the student name, paper
title, date submitted, or report columns to sort
papers by any of these criteria .
• sorting by folder
Move selected papers into either the viewed or
marked folders by checking them and clicking
the move to button .
 Move papers to the viewed or marked inbox folders.
• viewing by selected originality indices
Every Originality Report has a color that re-
flects the amount of matching text we found
for that paper. You can view papers with se-
lected originality indices by checking the index
colors you wish to view and clicking the arrow
icon .
• deleting unwanted papers
 Sort papers by originality index.
You can delete papers at any time by checking
them and clicking the delete button .

Viewing Late Submissions

Students enrolled in your class show up in your

inbox. If a student has not submitted a paper, --no
submission-- will show up in place of a paper title.  Delete unwanted papers from your inbox.
To quickly view which students have not submitted
a paper, sort your inbox by paper title by clicking on
the title header .

If a paper is submitted late to your class, the submis-

sion date will appear in red. If no paper has been
submitted by the due date, late will show up in the
date column in red .
 Late submissions show up in red.
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Managing Students
Your students page allows you to access each student’s
class portfolio (a collection of papers, Originality
Reports, Peer Reviews, and marked up papers for a
given class), e-mail your students, and block or delete
them from your class. Open your students page by  Click the students tab to open your students page.
clicking on the students tab of the class bar .

Student page main features include:

• view student class portfolio
Click on any student’s name to visit his or her
class portfolio .
• e-mail a student
Click on any student’s e-mail address to open  Click to view a student's portfolio.
your default e-mail program and send an e-
mail .
• e-mail all students
Click on the e-mail all students link to send an
e-mail to every student in your class .
• lock/unlock a student
Next to every student’s name is a lock icon that  Click to e-mail an individual student.
toggles to off (green) and on (red) . When
a student is locked he or she will no longer be
able to access your class.
• delete a student
Click the drop icon to permanently remove a
student from your class .
! Delete students only if you are absolutely sure  Click to e-mail all students.
they will no longer be a part of your class. De-
leted students can only be restored by Turnitin
help desk staff.

 The lock icon toggles to lock and unlock students.

 Click to permanently drop a student from a class.

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2 Plagiarism Prevention

Papers submitted to Turnitin are compared against

billions of internet documents, an archived copy of
the internet, our local databases of submitted student
papers, and the ProQuest commercial database. Any
matching text we find is detailed in an Originality
Report sent to your assignment inbox .  The inbox icon opens an assignment’s inbox.
Although Originality Reports can be very effective at
helping to identify suspected individual cases of pla-
giarism, Turnitin plagiarism prevention works even
more powerfully when used as a deterrent. Students
who know that their work could come under effec-
tive scrutiny are much more likely to produce original
work.

Originality Reports
Originality Reports provide a summary of the match-
ing text found in a submitted paper. When an Origi-
nality Report is available to view, an icon will appear
in the report column of your assignment inbox.
Originality reports that are not yet finished are repre-
sented by a grayed-out icon .  A ghosted report indicates that the report is not yet ready.

The color of the report icon indicates the overall sim-

ilarity index of the paper, based on how much match-
ing text we found. The possible similarity indices are:

• blue (no matching text)

• green (1 word-24% matching text)
• yellow (25-49% matching text)
• orange (50-74% matching text)
• red (75-100% matching text)
! These indices do not reflect Turnitin’s assess-
ment of whether a paper has or has not been
plagiarized. Originality Reports are simply tools
to help you find sources that contain text similar
to submitted papers. The decision to deem any
work plagiarized must be made carefully, and
only after careful examination of both the sub-
mitted paper and the suspect sources.

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To open an Originality Report, click the icon in the

report column . The Originality Report will open
in a new window.

The Originality Report has three main sections:

• paper information
The report header shows information about the
submitted paper including paper title, author,  Clicking the a report icon opens a paper's Originality Report.
word count, and the date the report was pro-
cessed.
• paper text
The left side of the report shows the text of the
submitted paper. Matching text is highlighted
in red and numbered to correspond with
sources to the right.
• matching sources
The right side of the report lists the sources of
matching text.  Click matching text to view its source.

Direct Source Comparison

Direct Source Comparison lets you quickly compare

matching text to its source. To activate Direct Source
Comparison, click a block of matching text . The
source of matching text will open to the right.

If the source you are viewing contains multiple  Use the arrows to quickly navigate between source matches.
sources of matching text, you can quickly navigate
between sources using the up/down arrows . The
text in the paper will automatically line up with the
source for easy comparison.

If you want to view matching text from an internet

source in its original web context, you can do so by
clicking the show in web page link .
 Click "show in web page" to see the source in its web context.
When you are done viewing a source, you can return
to the list of matching sources by clicking the close
link . Or you can immediately jump to another
source by clicking on a new block of matching text
.

 Click "close" to reveal the list of matching sources.

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Originality Report Modes

By default, the Originality Report shows you only

the highest percentage matches. In some cases, it is
possible that smaller matches are obscured by larger
matches and are not shown.
 Use the pulldown to switch modes.
If you would like to see an exhaustive list of sources,
you can switch to the show matches one at a time
mode . In this mode, all sources for a given paper
are listed, even those that are obscured by larger
percentage matches. To view the matching text for a
given source in this mode, click the radio button next
to a source .

If you would like to view an Originality Report

 Click the radio button next to a source to view matching text
showing only matching text and source links without from the source.
the source view, select quickview (classic) report using
the pulldown .

Database Sources

Because of our strict privacy policy, sources in the

Turnitin database are handled differently from inter-
net sources. If a source is from our database, student
papers will show up next to the source .  A database source.
If the source of matching text is a student paper that
belongs to one of your classes, the paper will be dis-
played with the matching text highlighted.

If the paper is from another instructor’s class, we

cannot provide direct access to the paper. To view the
paper, you must first request permission from the
instructor in possession of the paper by clicking the
permission request button . We will then auto-gen-  Click the permission request button to request permission to
view a database paper.
erate an e-mail detailing your request. If permission
to view the paper is granted, a copy of the paper will
be sent back to you via e-mail.

Internet Archive Sources

In addition to searching a copy of the active internet,

Turnitin also searches a copy of the archived internet,  An internet archive source.
which includes an extensive number of web pages no
longer available on the internet. If a match is found
in our internet archive, internet (archive) will appear
next to the source .

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Refreshing Reports

Since the internet is constantly changing, you might

want to generate a new report at a later date to see if
there are any new matching source documents. Or
perhaps you suspect that a student has shared his or
her paper with another student. You might also want  Click to refresh a report and generate a new one.
to generate a new report for an earlier submission to
see if the paper has been submitted to another class.

With the refresh report feature, you can generate

new reports for past submissions at any time. When
you refresh a report, your current report is deleted
and a new report is generated. To refresh a report,
click refresh at the top of the report .  Click to exclude quoted material from a report.

Excluding Quoted and Bibliographic Material

Originality Reports document all instances of match-

ing text including quoted and bibliographic material.
If quoted or bibliographic material is flagged, you
can exclude it from the report. To exclude quoted
material, click the exclude quoted link . To exclude
 Click to exclude bibliographic material from a report.
bibliographic material, click the exclude bibliography
link .

When you exclude material, the Originality Score on

the report and in your inbox is updated to reflect the
exclusion of matching text.

Please note that the functions for excluding material

are approximate. If more material is excluded than
 If material has been excluded, you can re-include it.
you would like, you can re-include excluded material
by clicking the include quoted or included bibliography
links .

Printing and Saving Reports

To print a report in a printer friendly format, click

print at the top of the Originality Report . The
report that is printed will be based on the mode you  Click to print a report in a printer friendly format.
are currently viewing. For example, if you are viewing
the report using the default highest matches mode, the
report that will be printed will only show the highest
matches (see the Originality Report modes section on
the previous page for more information).

If you would like to save and download a copy of a

report in HTML format, click save .  Click to save a report and download it to your computer.
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Report Preferences

From the report preferences pane, you can change the

appearance and behavior of Originality Reports. To
open the preferences pane, click prefs at the top of the
report .
 Click prefs to open the Originality Report preferences pane.
From the preference pane , you can change the fol-
lowing report settings:
• color-code matches
By default, matching text is color-coded. If you
would like to turn off color-coding, select no
using the pulldown.
• default mode
 The Originality Report preference pane.
When you open a report, it shows the highest
matches together by default. If you would like
to change the default mode for the report, se-
lect either show matches one at a time or quick-
view (classic) report.
• auto-navigation
When you navigate to a match, the text scrolls
smoothly. If you would like to jump immedi-
ately to the next match without scrolling, select
jump to next match.
When you are done making changes to the report
preferences, click save and close .  Click save and close to save your preference and close the pane.

Excluding a Source

If you would like to exclude a source from the show

highest matches together or quickview mode of your
Originality Report, you can do so by clicking the gray
"x" to the right of the source .

! Excluded sources will still appear in the Single  Click "x" to exclude the source.
Source Mode of the Originality Report. You can
restore excluded sources by clicking the gray "+"
to the right of the source.

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3 Peer Review

Peer Review lets your students anonymously read

and review the papers of their peers. At the end of a
peer review, your students will have received helpful
feedback that can help improve the quality of their
writing.

Overview
Here’s a brief overview of how the peer review
process works:
• You choose an assignment to use for Peer Re-
view. Any papers submitted to that assignment
will be included in the review.
• You create topic and metric questions that
your students will use to evaluate each other’s
papers.
• You determine how many papers each student
will review and how they will be distributed to
your students.
After papers are distributed, students receive their
assigned papers in their class portfolio and can begin
writing reviews. Once the review session ends, stu-
dents can read the reviews written for their work, in
addition to reviews posted for other papers in the
class.

Creating a Peer Review  The peer review tab creates a peer review for an assignment.

To distribute an assignment as a peer review, click the

create a new assignment link on your class homepage
. Select peer review assignment as our assignment
type .

Step 1 – Select Assignment and Review

Dates

To create a peer review, select a paper assignment to

use for the review. The papers that have been submit-
ted to the selected assignment will be distributed to  Select peer review assignment as your assignment type.
your students.

Next select dates for your peer review. The dates that
you will need to select are:

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• a start date. This is the date students can begin

reading papers and writing reviews.
• a due date. Students will not be able to write
reviews after this date.
• a post date. This is the date students will have
access to reviews written by their classmates.
Additional assignment criteria include:
• anonymous (default); click the checkbox to
make the review non-anonymous.
• title (optional)
• point value (applies to GradeBook users only)
• additional assignment instructions (optional)
• peer review source
If you would like to select a peer review that you
have previously created from your library, use the
pulldown to select use peer review library. Your peer
review library will open so that you can select a
review (refer to Chapter 9 for more information on the
peer review library). If you are creating a new peer
review assignment, make sure the peer review source
is set to create your own review.

When you are done, click submit to proceed to step 2.

Step 2 – Adding Topic Questions

In Step 2 you choose topic questions for the review.

For example, a topic question might be:

“Identify the thesis of this paper and discuss its overall

effectiveness.”

To add a topic question to your review:

1. Enter a topic question in the text box.
2. Select an optional minimum response length for
the question.
3. Select a category for the topic question.
! The category is used to organize your questions
in your question library (for more information  Adds a topic question to a peer review.
on the question library, please refer to Chapter
9).
4. Click add to add the topic question to your as-
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they stack at the bottom of your browser window

in the topic question table.
Repeat steps 1 through 4 for each of your topic ques-
tions. Once topic questions have been added to your
review, you can revise or delete them if necessary. To
revise a topic question, click the question’s revise icon  Revises a topic question.
. Click the delete icon to remove the topic question
from the review .

If you would like to use a topic question that you

have previously created or select a question from
the Turnitin topic library, click the topic library link
to open the library of topic questions  (refer to
Chapter 9 for more information on the topic library).  Removes a topic question from your review.

When you are finished adding topic questions to your

review, click submit to proceed to step 3.

Step 3 – Adding Metric Questions

In step 3, you choose metric questions for your

review. For example, a metric question might be:  Opens the topic question library.
“On a scale of 1 to 5, rate the effectiveness of the au-
thor’s thesis.”

Metric questions are always in this form and are rated

on a scale of 1 to 5.

To add a metric question to your review:

 Adds a metric question to a review.
1. Enter a metric question in the text box.
2. Select a category for your metric questions.
! The category is used to organize your questions
in your question library (for more information
on the question library, please refer to Chapter
9).
3. Click add to add the metric question to your as-  Click to revise a metric question.
signment . When metric questions are added,
they stack at the bottom of your browser window
in the metric table.
Repeat steps 1 through 3 for each metric question you
would like to add to the review. Once metric ques-
tions have been added to your review, you can revise
or delete them if necessary. To revise a metric ques-
 Click to delete a metric question.
tion, click the metric’s revise icon . Click the delete
icon to remove the metric question from the review
.

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If you would like to use a metric question that you

have previously created or select a metric question
from the Turnitin metric library, click the metric
library link to open the library of metric questions 
(refer to Chapter 9 for more information on the metric
library).

When you are finished adding metric questions to  Opens your metric question library.
your review, click submit to proceed to step 4.

Step 4 – Distributing Papers (if all papers

have been submitted to the assignment)

In Step 4 you determine how papers will be distrib-

uted to your students. All eligible students are listed
in a table to the left, and all available papers are listed
in the table to the right.

To distribute papers (if all papers have been submitted):  Click the lock icon to toggle it between red and green.
1. Select the number of papers you would like to
randomly assign to each student for review.
2. Select the number of papers each student will
choose to review.
! The number of papers you assign to each stu-
dent and the number you allow each student
to choose for review will equal the number of  Distributes papers to your students.
papers each student must review. For example, if
you assign two papers randomly to each student
and let each student review two papers of his or
her choosing, each student in the class will need
to write four reviews.
3. If there are students or papers you want to lock
out from the review, you can do so by clicking on
the lock icon next to the student or paper . Each
time you click a lock icon, it will toggle between
green (active) and red (locked). Locked papers
will not be distributed to students and locked
students will not receive papers to review.  The highlighted column shows assigned papers.
4. Click the distribute button to send papers to your
students using the criteria you have selected .
Papers distributed to your students will appear in the
papers assigned column . The numbers that appear
correspond with the papers listed in the papers avail-
able column to the right. Question marks represent a
paper that students can choose for review.
Click submit to add the review. The review will stack
beneath its assignment on your class homepage .  An assignment with a peer review on the class homepage.

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Step 4 – Distributing Papers (if some papers

or no papers have been submitted to the
assignment)

If your students have not yet submitted all of their

papers to the assignment being used for the review,
you can still determine how papers will be distrib-
uted ahead of time. Papers will be distributed to your
specifications on the review’s start date.
! Because papers will be distributed on the peer
review start date, this date should come after the
original assignment’s due date. This will ensure
that your students have had the opportunity to
submit their papers before they are distributed.

To set a distribution for a peer review:

1. Select the number of papers you would like ran-
domly distributed to each student.
2. Select the number of papers you would like each
student to choose for review.
3. Click submit to confirm the distribution and
finalize the peer review.
Once you have completed creating a peer review, the
review will stack beneath its assignment on your class
homepage.

Viewing Paper Distributions

To view the current distribution of papers for a
review, click the review’s distribution icon from your
class homepage . The paper distribution screen will  Opens the paper distribution screen for a review.
appear showing the current distribution of papers.
Redistributing Papers

You can redistribute papers for a peer review until a

student submits a review. After a student submits a
review (or after the peer review due date), you will
not be able to distribute papers for the class. You can,
however, still distribute papers manually to those  Click to select papers you want to assign.
students who have not yet written reviews.

To manually assign a paper or papers:

1. Click the checkbox next to the paper(s) you want
to assign to a student .
2. Click the update icon next to the student who will

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review the selected papers .

The paper(s) will appear next to the student in the
papers assigned column.
! Keep in mind that when you manually assign pa-
pers (or completely redistribute papers to your
class), you still need to click submit to finalize
your review.
 Click to assign selected papers to a student.
Writing a Review
If you would like, you can also write a review to
supplement those that your students will receive from
their peers.

To write a review, click the peer review tab at the top

of your class homepage , or click the pencil icon  Opens your peer review page.
next to a review to open the peer review page to the
selected review .

At the top of the peer review page is a pulldown

menu containing your class’s reviews. Use the pull-
down to view a review assignment.

To review a paper:
• Click the peer review (pencil) icon next to the
paper you want to review .  Opens your peer review page to the selected review.
The peer review form will open. The top frame of the
peer review form contains paper information, a navi-
gational bar to toggle the topic and metric questions
you are currently viewing, and a form for entering
your responses. The bottom frame contains the text
of the paper you are viewing.

To respond to a topic question:  Click to review a paper.

1. Enter your response in the text box. If there is a
minimum response length, it will appear in red
next to the question.
2. Click submit to enter your response and proceed
to the next topic question.

To respond to metric questions:

1. Click the view metrics link to display the review’s
metrics. You will automatically be taken to the
metrics once you have finished the topic ques-
tions.

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2. Click a radio button in the 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 column

to rate a metric question .
3. When you have rated all of the metric questions,
click submit to confirm your entries.

Adding Marks

If a paper has been submitted in Word or plain text

format, you can add marks to the paper during the  Select a metric by clicking a radio button.
review process. You can then reference your marks
within your topic responses. You can also associate
rubrics with your marks (refer to the Rubric Library
section in Chapter 9 for more information on rubrics).

To add a mark to a paper:

1. If you want to associate a rubric with your mark,
select a rubric using the rubric pulldown .
! You will only be able to associate a rubric with
your mark if you selected a rubric set when you  Use the pulldown to select a rubric.
created your assignment (refer to the Creating
an Assignment section in Chapter 1 for more
information).
2. Click anywhere on the paper. A mark will appear
where you click. If you selected a rubric, it will ap-
pear next to the mark .
After a mark has been added, it will appear both on
the paper and in the top frame of the peer review
form. You can later add or change rubrics associated
with marks.  A mark with an associated rubric.
To add or change a rubric:
1. Select a rubric using the rubric pulldown.
2. Click the select icon next to a mark to associate
the new rubric with the mark .

To move a mark:
1. Click the mark; it will change to a marker icon .
 Click to add a rubric to a mark.
2. Click and drag the marker icon to a new location;
when you let go of the mouse button, the mark
will appear in its new location.

Reading Reviews
Completed reviews can be accessed from three places:
 Clicking a mark changes it to a moveable marker icon.
1. Your peer review page (shows all papers avail-
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able for review and all submitted reviews for each

paper).
2. Your peer review inbox (shows each peer review
as it is submitted for a given assignment).
3. The student portfolio page (accessed by clicking
on a student’s name; shows all peer reviews sub-  Click to read reviews that have been written for a paper.
mitted by a given student).

To view reviews from the peer review page:

• Click the read reviews icon next to the paper from
your peer review page .
All of the reviews that have been submitted to the
paper will be shown. To read a review, click the read
full review button next to a review .
 Displays a full peer review.
To view the reviews from your inbox:
• Click the inbox icon next to a peer review on your
class homepage .
All of the reviews that have been submitted to the
peer review will be shown. To read a review, click
a paper title . To view all reviews that have been
written for a paper, click the compare icon for that
paper .
 Opens a peer review’s inbox.
To view reviews from a student’s portfolio:
• Click a student’s name.
The student’s portfolio will open. To read a review,
click a paper title next to the peer review.

The review will open. To view individual topic re-

sponses, click on the topic question links. To view the
review’s metrics, click the view metric responses link.  Opens a full peer review.

Creating a Writing Review

Writing reviews give your students the opportunity to
submit a paper about what they have learned during
the review process. While not part of the peer review
process, a writing review is often a good follow-up to
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To create a writing review:

1. Click the create a new assignment link on your
class homepage .
2. On the assignment page, select writing review
assignment using the assignment type pulldown
menu .  Adds a writing review to an assignment.
3. Select the paper assignment that the writing re-
view will be associated with and enter the follow-
ing additional information:
• writing review title (optional)
• point value (optional, applies only to Grade-
Book users)
• assignment start and due dates
• additional assignment instructions (optional)  Select writing assignment as your assignment type.
4. Click submit to add the writing review to your
class homepage.
The writing review will stack beneath its assignment
. Your students submit their writing reviews in the
same way they submit papers.
! Originality Reports are not generated for pa-
pers submitted to writing reviews. If you want
an Originality Report for a student submission,
have your students submit their papers to a nor-
mal paper assignment or a revision assignment.  Writing reviews stack beneath their assignment.

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4 GradeMark™

With GradeMark you can edit and grade student

papers online. You can add comments within the
body of a paper, point out grammar and punctua-
tion mistakes, and enter a grade for the paper that
is automatically entered into GradeBook (optional).
GradeMark is currently compatible with the follow-
ing browsers:
Internet Explorer 6.0 (Windows XP/2000)
Mozilla Firefox (Windows XP/2000, Mac OS X)

You can access GradeMark from three pages:

• your assignment inbox
• any student’s portfolio
• any paper within your account
To access GradeMark from your assignment inbox or
from a student’s portfolio, click on the GradeMark
icon next to the paper you want to markup . A  Click to mark up a paper with GradeMark.
new window will open displaying the GradeMark
interface. Using this interface, you can add marks to
student papers.

Marks
A mark can consist of any combination of the follow-
ing:
• a comment
• a mark symbol
• a rubric

Comments

A comment is equivalent to the notes you would

write in the margins of a paper. A comment might be:

“Your thesis is unfocused. Consider refining your thesis

in subsequent versions of this paper.”

Comments can be any length you would like.

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To add a comment to a paper:

1. Click anywhere on the paper to add a new mark
or click on an existing mark.
2. Enter text into the comment field .
3. If desired, choose a color for your mark; the de-  Add comments to the text field.
fault is blue .
4. If your comment references a specific area of the
paper, you can drag the edges of the highlight box
and reference a specific area of the paper .
5. Click the close button to add the comment to your
mark .
The mark containing your comment will appear in  Choose a color for your mark; blue is the default color.
the body of the paper.

You can edit a mark at any time by clicking on it. If

you would like to move a mark, drag it to a new loca-
tion and click the close button . When necessary,
you can delete a mark by opening it and clicking on
the clear mark link .  Drag the highlight box to reference a specific area of a paper.

Mark Symbols

If you would like to add a symbol to your mark for

easy identification, you can enter up to 10 characters
in the mark symbol field.
Mark symbols can also be used to quickly identify  Click the close button to close and save your mark.
punctuation and grammar issues. For example, if a
student has left out a comma, you can enter a comma
in the mark symbol field and it will appear on your
mark.

To add a mark to a paper:

1. Click on the paper to add a new mark or click on  Click "clear mark" to delete your mark.
an existing mark.
2. Enter up to 10 characters in the mark symbol field
.
3. Choose a color for your mark; the default is blue
.
4. If your mark references a specific area of the pa-
per, you can drag the edges of bounding box and  Enter a mark symbol; it will show up on your mark.
highlight a specific area of the paper .
5. Click the close button to add the mark symbol to
your mark .

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You mark will now appear with the mark symbol you
entered .

 A mark with an associated symbol.

Rubrics
A rubric is a predefined comment that you can add
to a student paper. A Turnitin set of rubrics is avail-
able to you as well as an empty set of rubrics called
My Rubrics. You can use this set to define your own
rubrics.
 Click the show rubrics link to open the rubric interface.
! For information on customizing and creating
rubric sets, please refer to the section titled Ru-
bric Library in Chapter 9.

To access your rubrics:

1. Click on the paper to add a new mark or click on
an existing mark.
 Select a rubric set using the pulldown.
2. Click the show rubrics link to open the rubric
interface .
From the rubric bubble, you can:
• attach a rubric from a rubric set
• create a new rubric
• modify an existing rubric  Click "attach" to add a rubric to a mark.
• add rubrics to your quick palette

Attaching Rubrics to Marks

To attach a rubric to a mark:

1. Select a rubric set using the set pulldown . The  Closes the rubric window.
rubrics from the selected set will be displayed.
2. Click the attach link next to the rubric you want
to add .
3. Click the close button to add the rubric to your  A mark with an associated rubric and symbol.
mark .
The rubric you have attached will show up to the
right of the mark . You can remove a rubric at any
time by opening the mark and clicking on the delete
button next to the rubric .

 Click to remove an attached rubric from a mark.

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Creating New Rubrics

You can create new rubrics from the rubric bubble.

To open the rubric bubble, click show rubrics . All
rubrics that you create will be added to the set My
Rubrics.
 Click the show rubrics link to open the rubric interface.
To create a new rubric:
1. Click the new rubric link .
2. Enter the following information for your rubric:
• a rubric symbol up to 6 characters in length
• a rubric name
 Click to create a new rubric.
• a rubric description
• an optional content link; you might link to a
site with more information on the rubric
3. Click the save button to add the rubric to My Ru-
brics .

Modifying Rubrics  Click to save your rubric to "My Rubrics."

If you would like to modify an existing rubric, click

on the rubric's name . You can then make any
changes and save the rubric.
! Rubrics from the set Turnitin Rubrics are read-
only. Modified Turnitin rubrics are saved in the
set My Rubrics.  Click a rubric to modify it.

Rubric Palette

If you have rubrics that you use frequently, you can

add them to the rubric palette. Rubrics on your
palette can be added to marks in a single click.

To add a rubric to your rubric palette:  Select a rubric set using the pulldown.

1. Click the show rubric link to open the rubric inter-

face .
2. Select the set containing the rubric you want to
add .
3. Click the add to palette link next to the rubric you
want to add .  Click "add to palette" to add a rubric to your palette.

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The rubric will be added to your rubric palette .

You can add up to 10 rubrics to your rubric palette.

To attach a rubric using your rubric palette:

1. Click on the paper to add a new mark or click on
an existing mark.
 A rubric that has been attached to the palette.
2. Click the rubric from your rubric palette that you
want to attach .
The rubric will be attach to your mark.

To remove a rubric from your palette, click the delete

icon next to the rubric .
 Click a rubric on your palette to add it to a mark.
Additional Functions

Navigating Between Marks

You can quickly jump from mark to mark using the

navigation arrows at the top of the GradeMark inter-
face .  Click the delete icon to remove a rubric from your palette.

• Clicking the up arrow will take you to the pre-

vious mark in the paper.
• Clicking on the down arrow will take you to the
next mark in the paper.
As you move from mark to mark, the comment  Use the up and down arrows to navigate from mark to mark.
bubble will open. You can use the navigation arrows
to quickly jump between and edit marks.

Navigation Between Papers

If you are grading several papers and want to jump

to the next or previous paper without returning to
your inbox, you can do so using the previous and next
navigation links at the top of each paper . Each  Use the next and previous links to jump from paper to paper.
time you jump from one paper to another, the paper
you are grading is automatically saved.

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Entering a Grade

To grade a paper, enter a numerical grade in the grade

field at the top of the paper .

E-mailing Students
 To grade a paper, enter a grade in the grade field.
You can e-mail the student of the paper you are cur-
rently grading by clicking the email student link .
Student View

To see paper you are marking up as your students will

see it, click on the student view link . You can switch
back to the instructor view by clicking on the instruc-  Click to e-mail the author of the current paper.
tor view link .

Printing

You can print papers in a printer friendly format by

clicking the print link .
 Click to switch to the student view.

 Click to switch back to the instructor view.

 Click to print a paper in a printer friendly format.

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5 GradeBook

With GradeBook you can track grades and atten-

dance online. To open GradeBook, click the grade-
book tab on the class bar .

Students enrolled in your class appear in the left

column of your GradeBook. Turnitin assignments  Opens GradeBook
from your class are listed along the top .

There are a few ways to enter grades into GradeBook.

You can enter grades directly into GradeBook from
the GradeBook assignment and student pages. Or,
you can choose to let GradeBook handle the grades
you enter for papers and peer reviews outside of
GradeBook. For example, you can enter grades using
GradeMark, or you can enter a grade while you are  GradeBook
viewing a paper or peer review.

Point Values
Each assignment in GradeBook has an assigned point
value. When you create an assignment, you can enter
a value for the assignment. From your GradeBook
you can add a point value to an assignment or adjust
its existing point value at any time.

To add a point value to an assignment or modify an existing

assignment’s point value:
1. Click the grade button beneath an assignment to
open the GradeBook assignment page .
2. Enter a value in the maximum points field .
 Click to open a GradeBook assignment page.
3. Click submit to change the assignment's point
value.
To return to your GradeBook, click the submit button.

Adding Entries
Assignments that have been added to Turnitin
(paper assignments, peer reviews, etc.) are automati-  To change the point value for an assignment, enter a new value
cally entered into GradeBook. Any additional grade in the maximum points field.
entries, such as exams or presentations, must be
added manually.

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To add an entry to GradeBook:

1. Click the add entry tab .
2. On the entry page, enter the following:
• an entry name
• a point value for the entry  Opens the add entry page.
• additional information for the entry (optional)
3. If you would like to group the entry with an exist-
ing assignment, use the pulldown to choose an
assignment. Grouping an entry makes it appear as
a subset of the larger assignment.
4. Click submit to add the entry to GradeBook.

GradeBook Preferences
The preferences page lets you control the format
(letter, point scale, etc.) in which your grades are
displayed, and also allows you to customize the per-
centage values that equate to any given grade. (For
example, A = 92%-100%, C+ = 78%-79%, etc.) To
open your GradeBook’s preferences page, click the
prefs tab .

From the preferences page, you can choose and cus-

tomize how grades are displayed and the percentage
value used to determine the grades. You can choose to
display grades as a percentage, a letter grade, or using  Opens a class’ GradeBook.
a 4.0 scale.

If you grade using a different grading system, you can

create your own grading format by selecting other
and entering the percentage breakdowns and grades
you want to use .
! If you are using a customized grading scale, be
sure you account for all possible percentages. If
there are any gaps, you will receive an error mes-
sage.  The GradeBook preferences page.
Once you have selected a format for your grades,
determine the breakdown you want to use for each
grade. If you would like to use values from another
one of your classes, use the pulldown menu to select
the class . When you are done modifying your
grading system, click submit to return to GradeBook.
 Select a class to use its grade values.

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Entering Grades
You can enter grades from your GradeBook assign-
ment or student page.

The GradeBook assignment page lists all student sub-

missions to an assignment. To open an assignment  Click to enter grades for an assignment.
page, click the grade button beneath an assignment
.

The GradeBook student page shows a selected stu-

dent’s submissions and grades. To open a student
page, click a student’s name .

To grade a submission, enter an integer point value  Click a student’s name to view the student’s submissions.
next to a submission . To view the grades before
submitting them to GradeBook, click the calculate
link .

When you have entering point values, click the

submit button. The grades will be entered into your
GradeBook and you will be returned to the Grade-
Book main page. The main page shows the point
values you just entered along their corresponding  The assignment grade page.
grades.

GradeBook Student Page

The top of the student grade page gives you a
summary of a student's grades and attendance. If
you have scaled the grades in your class, an aster-
isk will show up next to the student's overall grades  Click to calculate grades before submitting them.
indicating that the values are scaled values. You can
toggle between viewing scaled and natural grade
values using the show totals pulldown . Refer to the
section Scaling and Dropping Grades in this Chapter
for more information on scaling grades.

If you would like to view a student's grades in a

variety of graphical formats using our graphing tools,
 Choose whether to view scaled or non-scaled grades.
click the graph icon . For more information on
using GradeBook's graphing tools, please refer to the
section Graphing Tools later in this Chapter.

Notes

If you would like, you can send a note to a student

along with a grade.
 Click to view a student's grades using our graphing tools.
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To enter a note:
1. Click the note icon next to a submission .
2. On the note page, enter your note and click sub-
mit.
Students will be able to read your notes from their  Click to enter a note.
own student grade page.

You also have the option of entering general notes for

a student from the student notes page. To open the
student notes page, click the notes icon .

From the student notes page, you can add general

notes by clicking the add note link . You can also
perform these actions:
 Opens a students' notes page.
• toggle between viewing assignment specific and
general notes using the show pulldown 
• update and delete notes 
• return to the student's grade page 

 Click to add a general note to the student note page.

 Choose the notes you want to view using the pulldown.

 You can update and delete student notes.

 Return to the student's grade page.

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Scaling and Dropping Grades

With GradeBook you can scale your grades and re-
calculate them instantly. You can also choose to drop
each student's lowest grade. To open the scale page,
click the scale tab on your GradeBook main page .
 Opens the GradeBook scale page.
The scale page shows all of your assignments and
entries along with their point values. The natural
value column shows the value of the assignment
without scaling. For example, if your GradeBook had
four assignments each with a value of 100 points,
each assignment’s natural value would be 25 percent.

To increase or decrease the value of an assignment,

enter a new value in the scaled value field . Make
sure the values add up to 100 percent. To view the  To scale a grade, enter a scaled value.
new scaled grades, click the submit button to return
to your GradeBook.
! Scaling grades does not change the current point
values of your assignments. Instead, scaling cre-
ates new values for assignments relative to each
other, which are reflect in the total percentage
and final grades only.
The GradeBook will now display grades based on
the new scaled values you entered. If you would like
to view grades based on their natural value, click the  Click to hide scaling and display natural values.
hide scaling link . To change scaled values, return to
the scale page and adjust your grades.

Dropping Grades

If you would like to automatically drop your students'

lowest grades, select yes next to the drop lowest grade
option on the scale page . When lowest grades are
dropped they will not count towards your students'
final grades.
 Select "yes" to drop each student's lowest grade.
When you choose to drop grades, each student's
lowest grade is marked in GradeBook . You can
reinstate lowest grades at any time by returning to
your scaling page and turning the drop lowest grade
feature off.

 The square around these grades indicates the grades are the
students' lowest grades and are not included in the final grade.
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Graphing Tools
With Turnitin's graphing tools, you effectively track
class and student performance. To access Grade-
Book's graphing tools, click the graphs tab .

On the graphs page, use the show pulldown to choose

what type of graph you want to view . You can  Click to access GradeBook's graphing tools.
choose from the following graphs:

• graphs showing class performance for all as-

signments
• graphs showing class performance for one as-
signment
• graphs showing student performance for all as-
signments or one assignment
• a graph comparing a student's performance to  Select the type of graph you want to view
the rest of the class
Most of the graphs are available as either a line graph
or a pie chart. If you choose to view a graph for
student performance or a graph measuring perfor-
mance for an assignment, a new pulldown labeled
for will appear. You will need to select a student or an
assignment depending on which type of graph you
are viewing .
 If you select an assignment specific or student specific graph,
When you view a line graph, you have the option of you must select a student or assignment using the pulldown
showing grades in addition to percentages. To show
grades, select grades using the show breakpoints as:
menu . If you want to hide the grades and only
view percentages, select percentages.

When you view the bar graph for class performance

for one assignment, you have the option of viewing
the distribution breakdown using either percentages
or points using the break down distribution using:  Choose grades to view class grades in addition to percentages.
pulldown .

 Choose how you want to view your class' grade distribution for
a given assignment.

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Printing Graphs

All of the GradeBook graphs are printer friendly.

To view a graph in print format, click the print link
below the graph . The graph will open in a separate
window. You can print the graph using your browser's
print command.
 Click the print view link below a graph to open a print version.

Attendance
You can track student attendance using the Grade-
Book attendance page. To open the attendance page,
click the attendance tab on your GradeBook main
page .

The attendance form lists students enrolled in your

class. The top of the form shows the current date. If
you want to mark absences and/or tardies for a differ-  Opens the GradeBook attendance page.
ent date, use the pulldowns or click on the calendar
button to select a date.

To mark a student absence or late:

1. Click a checkbox in either the absence or late col-
umn .
2. Click submit to mark the selected students absent
or late.
Absences and tardies show up on your GradeBook  The GradeBook attendance page.
main page.

Exporting GradeBook
If you would like to track grades offline, you can
export GradeBook as a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.
To export GradeBook, click the export tab on your
GradeBook main page . The GradeBook will
download to your computer.  Exports GradeBook as an Excel spreadsheet.

GradeBook Key
Click the key tab to view a key explaining the
meaning of the asterisks that appear in GradeBook
.

 View a GradeBook key.

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6 Digital Portfolio

Digital Portfolio lets you create a digital portfolio as-

signment that allows for any type of file submission
up to 5 megabytes in size. Once a file is submitted, it
is stored securely on our servers and can be retrieved
from any computer with an internet connection.
! Originality Reports are not generated for files
submitted to Digital Portfolio.

Creating a Portfolio Assignment

Before you or your students can begin submitting
files to Digital Portfolio, you must create a portfolio
assignment.

To create a portfolio assignment

1. Click the create a new assignment link .  Click to create a revision assignment.
2. On the assignment page, select portfolio assign-
ment using the assignment type pulldown menu
.
3. Enter the following:
• portfolio assignment title
• if you would like the portfolio assignment to
show up in GradeBook, select yes using the
pulldown next to the entry option and enter
a point value (optional; shown only if Grade-
Book is active)  Select portfolio assignment as your assignment type.

• special assignment instructions (optional)

4. Select a start and due date for the assignment. If
you would like, you can also choose specific start
and due times for your assignment as well. Stu-
dents can begin submitting files to the portfolio
assignment once the start date arrives and will be
blocked from submitting files once the due date
has passed. Select yes using the pulldown next to
the option to allow submissions after the due date
if you want to allow submissions after the due
date has passed.
6. Click submit to finalize the portfolio assignment.
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Submitting Files
The steps for submitting a file are very similar to the
steps for submitting a paper to a regular Turnitin as-
signment. There are two differences between submit-
ting a paper to a portfolio assignment and a regular
assignment:
• Cut-and-paste is not a submission option when
submitting a file to a portfolio assignment.
• You can only submit a file for a student en-
rolled in your class; anonymous submissions
are not allowed.
For step-by-step instructions on submitting a file,
refer to the section Submitting Papers in Chapter 1.

Portfolio Inbox
The inbox for portfolio assignments is very similar to
the assignment inbox described in Chapter 1. There
are two differences between the portfolio inbox and
the assignment inbox:
• Since there are no Originality Reports for port-
folio submissions, Originality Report related
functions have been removed.
• All GradeMark related functions have been
removed.
For step-by-step instructions on managing your
portfolio inbox, refer to the section Assignment Inbox
in Chapter 1.

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Turnitin Instructor User Guide Chapter 7: Class Calendar

7 Class Calendar

The class calendar keeps track of your Turnitin as-

signments’ important dates and lets you add class
notes, announcements, and holidays. If you have
a syllabus for your class, you can upload it to your
calendar. Students access information posted to the
calendar from their own student calendar.

Opening the Calendar

To open a class calendar, click the calendar button on
the class bar .
 Click calendar on the class bar to open your class’ calendar.
When you open a calendar, it will display the current
month and year. You can view a different month by
clicking on the month tabs along the top of the cal-
endar . To change the year, use the year pulldown
menu .

Assignment Dates  Click a month tab to switch months.

Assignments and peer reviews you create are auto-

matically added to your calendar. A link appears for
each assignment’s date displaying the assignment or
peer review’s title. To view a summary of an assign-
ment or review, click the assignment or review  Use the year pulldown to switch to a different year.
title .

Calendar Entries

Class Notes

Class notes uploaded to your calendar are acces-  Click an assignment link for an assignment summary.
sible to students enrolled in your class. You can add
a single set of notes to a calendar date or you can
upload notes for multiple dates using the bulk upload
feature.

To add a single set of class notes:

1. Click on the date for the notes (for example, if the  Click a calendar date to add an entry to your calendar.
notes are for the 4th of the month, click the 4 on
your calendar) .
2. From the calendar entry page, click the Browse
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button to locate a set of notes to upload.

! We accept submissions in Microsoft Word,
WordPerfect, RTF, PDF, PostScript, plain text,
and HTML format.
3. Click submit to upload the notes to your calendar.

To add multiple sets of class notes using bulk upload:

1. Click on any date on your calendar to open the
calendar entry page.
2. From the calendar entry page, click the bulk up-  Bulk upload lets you upload notes for multiple dates.
load link .
3. Click the Browse button and locate a set of notes.
4. Enter a title for the notes.
5. Select a date for the notes.
6. Click attach to add the notes to your batch .  Click to add notes to for a selected date.
7. Repeat steps 3 through 5 for each set of notes you
want to add to your calendar.
8. When you are done adding papers, click the sub-
mit button to upload the batch of notes to your
calendar.
A notes icon will appear on your calendar for each
set of uploaded notes. To display the notes, click the
notes icon .
 Click to open class notes.
Announcements

You can add class announcements to your calendar.

Students will be able to access these announcements
from their calendar pages.

To add an announcement to the calendar:

1. Click on the date for the announcement (for
example, if the announcement is for the 4th of the
month, click the 4 on your calendar).
2. On the calendar entry page, enter a title and ad-
ditional information for the announcement.
3. Click submit to add the announcement to your
calendar.
An announcement icon will appear on your calendar
 Opens a full announcement.
along with a linked announcement title. To view the
full announcement, click the link .

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To delete an existing announcement:

1. Click on the date of the announcement.
2. The entry screen will display all announcements
that have been added for the displayed date. To
delete an announcement, click the announce-
ment’s delete icon .  Deletes an announcement from your calendar.

Holidays

From the entry page, you can add holidays to your

calendar. If class does not meet on the specified
holiday, you can designate the holiday as a day off.

To add a holiday to the calendar:

1. Click on the date for the holiday (for example, if
the holiday is on the 4th of the month, click the 4
on your calendar).
2. On the calendar entry page, enter a name for the
holiday.
3. If class does not meet on that day, click the check-
box to mark the day as a day off.
4. Click submit to add the holiday to your calendar.
The name for the holiday will appear on your calen-  A calendar with an added holiday.
dar . If students have the day off, the day will be
highlighted.

Uploading a Syllabus
If you have a class syllabus, you can upload it to your
calendar. Students can view and download the sylla-
bus from their calendars.
 Click to upload a syllabus to your calendar.
To upload a syllabus:
1. Click the syllabus link from your calendar .
2. From the syllabus page, click the Browse button
and locate the file you want to upload.
! We currently accept syllabus submissions in
Microsoft Word format only.
3. Click submit to add the syllabus.
The syllabus will be posted to the syllabus page. If you
post another syllabus, your current syllabus will be
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Calendar List
You can also view your calendar in list mode. The list
mode displays all assignments and entries in a list.
Dates that do not have assignments or entries are
excluded from the list.
 Click list to view your calendar in list mode.
To switch to the calendar list, click the list link on
your calendar . The calendar list mode works
similarly to the calendar mode. You can view any item
by clicking on it. If you would like to update an item,
click the item’s update icon .

To switch back to the calendar view, click the calendar

mode link .
 Updates an item.

 Switches back to the full calendar display.

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8 Discussion Boards

Discussion boards let teachers set up an online forum

where students can discuss topics relevant to their
class. Instructors can post topics for student discus-
sion or they can choose to let their students contrib-
ute topics to the forum.

To access your class discussion board, click the discus-

sion tab on the class navigation bar .  Click to view your class discussion board

Posting a Discussion Topic

When you first visit your class discussion board, it
will not contain any topics for discussion. Your stu-
dents will not be able to start using discussion boards
until you post a topic.

To post a topic to your discussion board:

1. Click the post a new topic link .
2. Enter the following topic information:  Click to post a discussion topic to your discussion board.

• topic title
• enter a topic description (optional)
3. Choose a start and end date for your topic. Stu-
dents will not be able to post to a discussion
before the start date or after the end date.
4. Choose whether you want to moderate the topic.
If you choose to moderate the topic, you can se-
lect yourself as the moderator or you can choose a
student to moderate the discussion.
! When a discussion is moderated, students can-
not read posts until they have been approved by
the moderator. Refer to the section Moderation
in this chapter for more information.
5. Choose whether you want replies to be anony-
mous. If you choose yes all posts will be anony-
mous for everyone in the class except yourself.
6. Click submit to add the new topic to your discus-
sion board.
Once a topic has been added, your students can
login, view your topic, and begin discussing the topic
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Discussion Page Overview

The discussion page lists all discussion topics for your

class and gives you a quick overview of all the discus-
sions in your class.

The status column shows whether a topic is active or

inactive. Your students will only be able to reply to
active topics.

The replies column shows the total number of replies

to a topic.

The new column shows how many replies have been

made since you last viewed a topic.

If you have chosen a moderator for a topic, the

pending column shows how many replies need to
be moderated (refer to the Moderation section in this
chapter for more information on how moderating
works).

The last reply column shows when the last reply was  Click to update a discussion topic.
posted to a topic.

The moderator column displays the topic's moderator.

If no moderator has been chosen, (none) appears in
this column .

If you would like to change a discussion topic's title

or dates, add a moderator to a topic, or make replies
to a discussion topic anonymous, click the update
button next to the topic (refer to the section Posting a  Click to delete a discussion topic.
Discussion Topic above for more information on these
options) . To delete a discussion topic, click the
delete button next to the topic .

The pulldown on the discussion page lets you choose

to view all topics, active topics, pending topics, or inac-
tive topics . The default view is all topics.

 Select the types of discussion topics you want to view.

Posting a Reply
To view a discussion with its responses, click the dis-
cussion topic's title . The page that opens displays
the discussion topic at the top of the page and any
responses beneath the topic.

 Click a topic to view a discussion with responses.

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To post a reply to a topic:

1. Click the reply to topic button next to the discus-
sion topic .
2. Enter your response in the reply box. By de-
fault, the post you are replying to is shown. If
you would like to see the entire thread, use the
pulldown at the top of the form and select entire  Click to reply to a topic
thread .
3. Click submit to add your reply to the discussion.
In addition to responding to the topic, you can also
respond to a reply.

To post a response to a reply:

1. Click the reply link next to the response you want  Select to view only the message you are replying to
to reply to .
2. Enter your response in the reply box. By de-
fault, the post you are replying to is shown. If
you would like to see the entire thread, use the
pulldown at the top of the form and select entire
thread .
3. Click submit to add your reply to the discussion.
After posting a response, you can edit it by clicking  Click to reply to a posting
the edit link . To delete your response, click the
delete link . If someone replies to your response,
you will no longer be able to edit or delete your post.

Discussion Views
There are two main discussion views you can choose
from–a flat view and a threaded view. Both views use  Click to edit a response
the following structure:
1. topic
1.1 first response to topic 1
1.1.1 response to 1.1
1.2 second response to topic 1
1.2.1 first response to 1.2  Click to delete a posting
1.2.2 second response to 1.2

Flat View

The flat view is the default view and shows responses

flat in thread order like the structural diagram above.

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With the flat view, you have the option of viewing

responses with or without threads. By default, the
thread is shown. For example, if someone posts:

I agree with this topic

and you reply to the above post with:

Why do you agree with the topic?

Your post will look like this:
I agree with this topic
Why do you agree with this topic?  Viewing a thread using nested threads
This view, flat view with nested threads, is the default
view . If you would like to only view responses and
not see referenced thread , you can choose flat view
with no thread using the "show replies as" pulldown
on the discussion page .

Threaded View

You also have the option of using a threaded view to

view a discussion. To use the threaded view, choose
threaded view using the "show replies as:" pulldown
on the discussion page .
 Viewing a thread without nested threads
When you choose to view a discussion using the
threaded view, only the top response of each thread is
shown. For example, if a discussion has this structure:
1. topic
1.1 first response to topic 1
1.1.1 response to 1.1
1.2 second response to topic 1
 Use the pulldown to view replies with no threads
1.2.1 first response to 1.2
1.2.2 second response to 1.2

only responses 1.1 and 1.2 will be shown in the

threaded view. If you want to view the replies to 1.2,
you can click on the replies link to display the re-
sponses to this thread. If there are responses to the
responses shown, you can drill down further by click-
ing on more reply links.  Select threaded view to see replies in threads

If you want to go up a level, you can click on a thread

title. You will be taken back up to the level you have
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Viewing Replies by User

You can view replies by user using the "show replies

from" pulldown. You and your students show up in
this pulldown. To view only responses from a given
student, select the student's name using the pulldown
. You can view your responses by selecting your
own name.  Select a student to view only the selected student's replies

Sorting Replies

You can sort replies by status, author, reply number,

date posted, and number of replies by clicking a
column header. For example, if you want to sort
replies alphabetically by author, click the author
header . Clicking a header once will sort replies in
ascending order. Clicking a column again will reverse
the sort order.
 Select a student to view only the selected student's replies
Moderation
If you would like student replies to be reviewed and
approved before they become part of the discussion,
you can assign yourself or a student as a moderator.
A moderator is selected when you add a discussion
topic. For information on assigning a moderator,
refer to the section Posting a Discussion Topic earlier
in this chapter.

If a moderator is assigned for a discussion, all student

replies are pending replies and show up for the mod-
erator only. A moderator can get a quick overview
of the number of pending replies in each discussion
topic from his or her discussion board main page.

For a pending reply to become part of the discus-

sion, the moderator must approve a reply. This can be
done from the discussion page.

To approve a reply:
1. Click the approve link next to a pending reply .
The reply will be displayed.
2. Edit the reply if you would like.
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3. Using the "approve?" pulldown at the top of the

form, choose yes to approve the reply and add it to
the discussion . If you do not want to approve
the reply, select no.
4. Click submit. If you chose to approve the reply,
it is added to the discussion. If you chose not to
approve the reply, you will be asked if you want to  Select "yes" and click submit to approve a reply
delete the reply or save it for later.
Once a reply has been approved, it will be assigned a
number and added to the discussion.

Letting Students Post Topics

Discussion topics posted by students must be ap-
proved by the class instructor before they are added
to the class discussion board. Pending topics show up
at the top of the instructor's discussion homepage.

To approve a student posted discussion topic:

1. Click the title of the pending discussion topic .
2. Complete the discussion topic form. If you would
like you can edit the student's topic title or de-  Click a pending topic to view, edit, and approve the topic.
scription. For information on completing this
form, refer to the section Posting a Discussion
Topic in this chapter.
If you would like to prevent students from posting
topics, you can do so from your class preferences. For
information on modifying your class preferences,
please refer to Chapter 12.

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Turnitin Instructor User Guide Chapter 9: Libraries

9 Libraries

Your libraries store information from assignments,

rubrics, and peer reviews that you have created. You
can use your libraries to import assignments and peer
reviews to classes, manage your rubrics, and add topic
and metric questions to new peer reviews.

You can open your library page from anywhere

within a class. To open your library page, click the
libraries tab on the class bar .  Opens your library page.

Assignment Library
Your assignment library helps you manage all of the
assignments you have created. When you create an
assignment for a class, the assignment is added to that
class’ assignment set. When you open your library
page, your assignment library defaults to your current
class’ assignment set. To switch to a different assign-
ment set, use the pulldown to select a class.

Importing Assignments

From your assignment library, you can import assign-

ments to your class.

To import an assignment to your current class:

1. Click the checkbox next to the assignment(s) you
want to import .  Click to select an assignment to import.
2. Click the import button above the checkbox col-
umn .
3. Choose whether you want to use the assignment
dates from the library or enter your own dates. To
use library dates, click the preserve dates link. To
enter your own dates, enter a start and due date
and click submit.
! If you are importing more than one assignment,
the dates you select will be applied to all of the  Imports an assignment to a class.
assignments. You can later edit the dates for
individual assignments by clicking on an assign-
ment’s update button.

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Rubric Library
To open your rubric library, click the rubrics tab from
your library page .

Your rubric library lets you create new rubrics and  Opens your rubric library.
organize existing rubrics into sets. These rubric sets
can then be used with Peer Review and GradeMark.
With rubrics, you can identify common problems
in student papers quickly and easily. For example,
instead of adding comments to a student paper each
time a student uses passive voice, you can create a
rubric that you can place throughout a paper each
time that student uses the passive voice.

Before you can create rubrics, you must first create a

rubric set.
 Click to create a new rubric set.
To create a rubric set:
1. Click the create new rubric set link .
2. Enter a name for the rubric set and an optional
rubric set description.
3. Click submit to add the rubric set to your library.
Once you have created a rubric set you can create new
rubrics and add them to your set.

To create a new rubric:  Click to create a new rubric.

1. Click the create new rubric link .

2. Enter the following information:
• a rubric name
• a rubric symbol up to six characters in length
! This symbol will appear when you add a rubric
to a mark in GradeMark. For example, if you en-
ter “spel” as a symbol for a spelling rubric, this
symbol will appear on the paper each time you
use this rubric.
• an optional content link
• an optional remediation quiz link
• an optional rubric description
3. Click submit to add the rubric to your current
rubric sets.
Once you have created rubrics and added them to a
set, you can export them to other rubric sets.

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To export rubrics to another rubric set:

1. Select the rubrics you want to export by clicking
on the rubric’s checkbox .
2. Click the export button above the selected check-
boxes .
3. Use the rubric set pulldown to select a target set
for the selected rubrics. Click submit to add the  Click to select a rubric.
rubrics to the selected set.
With rubric sets, you can use a single set of rubrics
for all of your classes and assignments or create sepa-
rate sets of rubrics for specific assignment and class
types.

Modifying and Deleting Rubric Sets

To modify or delete a rubric set, select a rubric set  Exports selected rubrics to a new rubric set.
and click on its name . From the page that opens,
you can make changes to your rubric sets name or de-
scription. You can also delete a rubric set by clicking
the delete set link .

Peer Review Library

 Click to open the modify rubric page.

Your peer review library keeps track of all the peer

reviews you have previously created. To view your
peer review library, click the peer review tab on your
library page .

All reviews you have created for your current class  Click to delete a rubric set.
will be displayed. Using the class pulldown, you can
view reviews from your other classes.
When you are creating a peer review, you can choose
to select a review from your library in step one of the
review assignment creation process. Selecting this  Opens your peer review library.
option will open your peer review library. To select a
review from your library, click the select icon.
! You will only be able to select a peer review from
your library during step one of the peer review
creation process.

Topic Question Library

To open your topic question library, click the topic
questions tab on your library page .  Open your topic questions library.

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The topic question library keeps track of all the topic

questions you have created for your peer reviews. The
library also contains Turnitin topic questions that you
can use in your reviews.

There are two available sets of topic questions. Select-

ing my questions lists the topic questions you have
previously created. Selecting library questions shows
the Turnitin library questions. If you would like to see
both your questions and the Turnitin library ques-
tions, select both.

After you have selected a set of questions, you can

view them by category. Selecting the thesis category,
for example, will list all topic questions that pertain
to the thesis of a paper.  Click to select topic questions.

If you choose to select a topic question from your

library during step two of the peer review creation
process (refer to Chapter 3), you can select topic ques-
tions to add to your review by clicking on the check-
box next to the questions you want to add . Once
you have selected topic questions, click the import
button to add them to your review .  Imports selected topic questions to a peer review.

Metric Library
To open your metric library, click the metrics tab
from your library page .  Opens your metric library.

The metric library keeps track of all the metric ques-

tions you have created for your peer reviews. The
library also contains Turnitin metric questions that
you can use in your reviews.

There are two available sets of metric questions. Se-

lecting my metrics lists the metric questions you have
previously created. Selecting library metrics shows the
Turnitin metric questions. If you would like to see
both your metric questions and the Turnitin metric
questions, select both.

Once you have selected a metric set, you can view the
metric questions by category. Selecting the conclusion
category, for example, will list all metric questions
that pertain to the conclusion of a paper.

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If you choose to select a metric question from your

library during step three of the peer review creation
process (refer to Chapter 3), you can select metric
questions to add to your review by clicking the
checkbox next to the metric question you want to add
. Once you have selected metric questions, click the
import button to add them to your review .  Click to select metric questions.

 Imports selected metric questions to your peer review.

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10 Class Sections

If sections of your class are taught by other instruc-

tors or teaching assistants, you can create a class with
sections. When you create a class with sections, a top-
level master class is created. From the master class, an
instructor or administrator can choose to set up all
sections for their TAs or let their TAs manage their
own classes either on their own or by using guidelines
created by the master class instructor.

Creating a Master Class

To create a class with sections, click the add a class
link . On the add a class page, select master class  Click to add a master class
using the class type pulldown . Enter a name for
your class and a TA join password. Your TAs can use
this password to join your class and set up their sec-
tions. Click submit to add the master class to your
homepage.

If you have an existing class and want to change it to

a class with sections, you can convert the class to a
master class.
 Select master class to create a class with sections
To convert a regular class into a master class
1. Click the update button next to the class you want
to convert .
2. Click the convert to master class button to change
your standard class to a master class .
If there are any students or papers in your class, they
will be moved to a newly created section beneath
your master class. :  Click to update a class

Adding Sections
There are two ways to add sections to your class.
You can manually set up all of your sections and
enter TA information for each section, or you can
distribute your class ID and TA join password and
let your TAs join you class and set up their sections  Converts a standard class to a master class
themselves.
! We encourage you to distribute your class in-
formation and let your TAs set up their sections
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themselves as it will save you time.

To let your TAs join your class and set up sections,

distribute your class ID and TA join password to
your TAs. Once they have the class ID and TA join
password, they will log in as instructors and join your
class by clicking the join class (TA) button . Once
joined, the TA will set up his or her class section.
This section will appear beneath your class on your  Click to join a class as a TA
homepage.

To create a class section and add TAs yourself:

1. Click the add section button next to your master
class .
2. On the add section screen, enter the following TA
information:
• TA’s last name
• TA’s first name  Click to add a section to master class
• TA’s e-mail address
Click submit to proceed to the next step.
4. On the next page, enter the following section
information:
• section enrollment password (students will use
this password to enroll in the section)
• section name
5. Click submit to add the section to your class .
Each section will appear on your homepage beneath  A master class with an added section
your master class. When a section is added, an e-mail
with the section information will be sent to the TA.
If the TA does not have a user profile with Turnitin,
we will generate a profile for the TA and include this
information in the e-mail.

Administering a Master Class

As a master class instructor, you have several options
for managing your class and its sections. Here are a
few ways you might manage your class:
• create template assignments that become part
of your class assignment library; your TAs can
then create their own assignments or choose to
select your assignments from the class assign-
ment library (refer to the section Assignment
Library in Chapter 9 for more information on
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using the assignment library)

• create complete assignments and add them to
some or all of your sections
• create partial assignments (for example, assign-
ments that contain basic assignment informa-
tion but do not contain dates) and add them to
some or all of your sections
As with other Turnitin classes, assignments are added
to the master class homepage. To view your master  Click the master class to open its homepage
class homepage, click the title of your master class .

Creating Assignments
The process for creating an assignment within a
master class closely resembles the class creation
process for a normal class. For an overview on creat-
ing assignments, please refer to the section Creating
an Assignment in Chapter 1.

Adding Assignments to Sections

When you create a master class assignment, you have

the option to add it to some or all of your sections.

To add an assignment to one or more sections:

1. On the assignment creation page, make sure you
have selected yes next to the option do you want  Select "yes" to add your assignment to one or more sections
to push this assignment to your sections? (note that
this option is set to yes by default) .
2. Click submit to advance to the assignment push
page.
The assignment push page lists all of your sections
and lets you choose which sections will receive your
assignment. By default, all sections are marked to
receive your assignment. If you do not want to push
the assignment to a specific section, click the check-
box in the push? column to uncheck the box. Only
sections with a check in the push? column will receive
your assignment when you click submit.

Adding Assignments Without Dates

You have the option to push assignments to sections

without dates. If an assignment is pushed without
dates, the assignment will be in an inactive state and

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students cannot submit papers to the assignment

until the TA chooses dates for the assignment.

To push an assignment to a section without dates,

click on the checkbox next to the option push with
dates? to unmark the checkbox . When you click
submit, the sections you have selected for the assign-
ment will receive the assignment without dates.  Unmark the checkbox to push an assignment without dates

Master Class Homepage

The master class homepage shows all of the assign-

ments you have created for your class. The push to
sections column shows whether an assignment has
been pushed to sections and whether it has been
pushed to all sections or selected sections.
• not pushed indicates that an assignment has not
been pushed to any sections
• partial indicates that an assignment has been
pushed to at least one section but not all sec-
tions
• full indicates that an assignment has been
pushed to all sections
You can revisit the assignment push page at any time
by clicking the push to sections button next to an as-
signment.

If you have previously added an assignment to a

section, you can push the assignment to the section
again with any changes you have made. You can do so
if the assignment has not been altered by the TA or
if a paper has not yet been submitted to the assign-
ment. Once any part of an assignment is changed or a
paper is submitted to an assignment, it is locked. The
messages on the push page next to each assignment
will tell you if an assignment is unmodified or if it is
locked.
! If you need to alter a locked assignment, you
must do so from within the assignment's sec-
tion.

Student Enrollment
Students cannot enroll directly in a master class but
can enroll in one or more class sections. There are
several ways students can enroll in a section. The

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recommended and fastest way to get students started

is to provide them with their section's class ID and
enrollment password and let them enroll themselves.
 Click to open your master class student list
You can also choose to add students from within a
section. For step-by-step instructions on enrolling
students in a class, refer to the section Getting Your
Students Started in Chapter 1.

If you prefer, you can add students from your master

class list.

To add students from the master class:

1. From your master class homepage, click the stu-  Click to add a student to a section
dents tab on the class navigation bar .
2. Click the add student link on the students page .
3. Select the section you want to enroll a student in
using the section pulldown menu .
4. Enter the following information:
• student last name and first name
 Choose a section for the student
• student e-mail address
5. Click submit to add the student to the section.
The student will appear on your master student list
.

GradeBook
 The added student shows up on your master class list
If GradeBook is active for your account, you can click
the GradeBook tab on the class navigation bar and get
a quick overview of the grades in your class . If you
want to view detailed grade information for a student
or section, click on the student or section's name to
jump to that section's GradeBook.

 Click to open your GradeBook

Calendar
To view your master class calendar, click the calendar
tab on the class navigation bar . The master class
calendar functions similarly to the class calendar. For
information on using the calendar, refer to Chapter 7.

Any announcements, notes, or holidays that you add  Click to open your class calendar
to your master calendar will show up on all of your
section calendars as well.

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Preferences
Click the preferences tab on your class navigation bar
to view your master class preferences . From your
master class you can determine which features are
 Click to open your class preferences
available to your sections. To enable a feature, make
sure the checkbox next to feature is marked.

From your master preferences you can also choose to

lock assignment information and assignment dates
for the assignments you push to sections. To lock as-
signment dates, click the checkbox next to the option
lock assignments dates? To lock all other assignment
information, click the checkbox next to the option
lock assignment info?

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11 Quick Submit

Quick submit lets instructors submit papers for

plagiarism detection without creating a class or as-
signment. It is ideal for instructors who want to use
Turnitin to check papers for plagiarism and want to
submit papers themselves. If you want to have your
students submit papers or if you plan to use Peer
Review, GradeMark, or GradeBook, you should not
use quick submit.

 Click to view your user preferences.

Accessing Quick Submit
To enable quick submit, click on the user info button
on the system bar . From the user preferences page,
select yes next to the quick submit option to activate
quick submit . Once quick submit is active, a quick
submit tab will appear on your homepage. Click the
quick submit tab to access quick submit .  Select "yes" to activate quick submit.

Submitting Papers
To submit a paper, click the submit button at the top
of the quick submit inbox .

You will first need to choose the sources that you  Click to open your quick submit inbox.
want the submitted paper or papers checked against.
The available sources are the internet, our database of
submitted student papers, and the ProQuest database.
To include a source in the search, click the checkbox
next to the source.

The process for submitting a paper to quick submit

is identical to the submission process outlined in
Chapter 1 with one exception: when you use quick  Click to submit papers to your quick submit inbox.
submit, you cannot submit papers for students en-
rolled in your class. For step-by-step instructions on
submitting a paper, refer to the section Submitting a
Paper in Chapter 1.

Papers you submit will show up in your quick submit

inbox. Click the Originality Report icon next to a
paper to view its Originality Report .

The quick submit inbox works just like an assignment

inbox. For information on organizing and using your  Click to view an Originality Report.

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quick submit inbox, please refer to the section Assign-

ment Inbox in Chapter 1.

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Turnitin Instructor User Guide Chapter 12: Preferences and Notifications

12 Preferences & Notifications

There are two types of preferences – user preferences

and class preferences. User preferences are part of
your user profile, while class preferences are part of
each class.

User Preferences
To view your user preferences, open your user profile
by clicking the user info button on the system bar .  Click user info to open your user profile.
The user preferences are:
• default user type – select from student, instruc-
tor, or administrator; your default user type will
be used when you log in.
• default submission type – select a default sub-
mission type: file upload or cut and paste; when
you submit a paper, the submission screen will
default to the selected submission type.
• activate quick submit – select yes to turn quick
submit on; refer to Chapter 11 for information
on quick submit.
• items per page – select the number of items
you would like displayed per page.
• file download format – choose a default for-
mat for your downloads (either original format
or PDF); if you want to choose each time you
download a paper, select let me choose each
time.
• show page info – choose yes to display page
information at the top of each page.
• send me e-mail updates – choose yes to receive
e-mail updates from Turnitin.
• use homepage link – choose yes to create a
homepage link; to set up a link, enter a link
name and URL below.
! If you make any changes to your user prefer-
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Class Preferences
To open preferences for a class, click preferences on
the class bar .

Each class has the following preferences:

 Click preferences to view your class preferences.
• General Preferences – choose whether you
want to allow students to view their own Origi-
nality Reports or submit discussion topics to
your class. If you would like to prevent students
from e-mailing you, you can hide the link to
your e-mail address. If a feature is highlighted
in red, your account administrator has not acti-
vated the feature for your account.
• Products – select the products that you want
to activate. If a product is grayed out, it has not
been purchased for your account. If a product
is highlighted in red, your account adminis-
trator has not activated the product for your
account.
• Class Link – if you would like to set up a link
available to you (from your class homepage)
and your students (from their class portfolio),
enter a link name and link URL.
If you make changes to your class preferences, click
submit to commit the changes.

Messages and Announcements

You can view important Turnitin messages and an-
nouncements by clicking on the messages button on
the system bar . An exclamation point next to the  Click to view Turnitin messages and announcements.
messages button indicates that you have new, unread
messages or announcements.
! Urgent notifications including messages an-
nouncing scheduled downtime will appear both
on your messages page and on your homepage.

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13 Statistics

Each class and section has its own statistics page.

From the stats page, you can view detailed usage sta-
tistics for your class.

To view class statistics, click the stats icon next to a

class . The statistics page for the class will open.  Opens the statistics page for a class or section.

Statistics Overview
The first column of the stats page lists your class’
enrollment password. The remaining columns list the
statistical categories tracked for your class.
 Use the pulldown to view stats for a specific date range.
The default view shows you cumulative account sta-
tistics. If you would like to view statistics for a given
period of time, select stats for a specific range using
the show pulldown . You can then choose the date
range you want to view and click submit date range to
view stats for the selected range .

The default statistics view does not include deleted  Once you have selected a date range, click submit date range.
objects. For example, if you have dropped a student
from your class, the stats will not include the dropped
student's submissions If you would like to view all
statistics for your class including deleted objects,
select show dropped and deleted using the pulldown
next to your class .
 View your stats with dropped and deleted objects.
You can download your class statistics in MS Excel
format by clicking on the export to Excel tab .

Viewing Rubric Statistics

For each of your classes and assignments, you can  Click to download your stats in MS Excel format.
view a breakdown of rubrics.
To view the rubric breakdown for a class or assign-
ment, click the view link in the rubric breakdown
column next to a class or assignment . The rubrics
that you have used for either the class or assignment
will be displayed along with their statistical break-
down.
 Displays a rubric breakdown for a class or section.

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