Turnitin

Turnitin is being used at Salford as a tool for e-submission and matching text electronically to help avoid plagiarism. Where appropriate to the assignment, you will submit work to Turnitin for marking. You may also be offered the opportunity to submit draft assignments to Turnitin allowing you to see any text that Turnitin has matched to its data bank and check that it is correctly referenced.

Accessed via Blackboard, work submitted to Turnitin is checked against millions of internet, book and journal sources. For draft assignments, Turnitin produces an originality report highlighting which parts of the assignment have been matched.

Your responsibility: what you need to know

See your module handbook for further information

• When you submit work through Turnitin, you are accepting the submission declaration.
• The naming convention for your files - your school may specify a particular format.
• Keep copies of e-mail receipts from Turnitin as proof of submission.
• If you have a disability sticker, make sure it is included in your assignment.
• Files must be less than 20Mb. Contact your lecturer if your file is greater than 20Mb.
• File types accepted are: MS Word, WordPerfect, PostScript, PDF, HTML, RTF or plain text. You can ask at The Library for help if you are not sure about a file type.

Make sure you submit your assignment to the correct, FINAL submissions folder.
Work submitted mistakenly to the DRAFT folder will not be marked.

In some programmes or modules Turnitin may have been set up with two folders. If this applies to you, one is the DRAFT folder and the other is the FINAL folder. You may submit your assignment into the DRAFT folder to check for plagiarism and self-rectify, but remember you must submit your assignment into the FINAL folder for it to go through for marking.

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Only your lecturer can tell you how and where to submit your assignment. If you are asked to submit your assignment electronically through Blackboard using Turnitin, make sure you know from your lecturer where the submissions folders are.

Our User Guide will help you through the process.

• Using Turnitin in Blackboard: a guide for students [pdf]

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You can only submit once to the final assignments area.

• Step 1: Navigate to the Blackboard folder for the assignment. Your lecturer should tell you where to find the folder within your Blackboard module.
  Click on the assignment title - by continuing you are agreeing to the regulations that accompany the folder.
• Step 2: Click on the View/Complete option. Make sure you click on View/Complete for the FINAL assignments folder.
• Step 3: Fill in the details that are required. Remember to use any naming convention that your lecturer has specified.

• Step 4: Browse for your document and click on upload. Double check you have selected the right document.
• Step 5: Click on Submit to complete the process.

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Yes. You will see on screen confirmation that you have submitted your assignment and you will also receive the confirmation by email to your student email account.

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Every assignment is different and your lecturer will determine whether it is appropriate for the assignment to have an option of draft submissions. If there is a draft submissions area, the lecturer will tell you where it is.

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To submit a draft assignment:

• Step 1: Click on the assignment title - by continuing you are agreeing to the regulations that accompany the folder.
• Step 2: Click on View/Complete. Make sure you click on View/Complete for the DRAFT assignments folder.

• Step 3: Fill in the details that are required. The submission title is not important, choose a name which helps you identify the version of the assignment you have submitted.
  Each time you submit a draft assignment any previous copy will be over written.

• Step 4: Browse for your document and click on upload. Double check you have selected the right document.

• Step 5: Click on Submit.

You now need to look at the Originality Report for the assignment.

• Step 6: Click on the go to portfolio option.
• Step 7: Click on Show details in the Assignment Inbox & Portfolio section.

Your Originality Report is ready to view when the coloured bar is coloured, not grey.

• Step 8: Click on the coloured bar to view the Originality Report.

Your first originality report should be available in approximately 5 minutes (although it may take longer). For any further drafts of your assignment that you submit it may take up to 24 hours for your originality report to be ready.

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Our User Guide How to interpret a Turnitin ‘Originality Report’ [pdf] contains important information about your Originality Report, including how access the original report, what kind of information is held within the report and filtering options.

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Our User Guide Turnitin: How to view marks and grades  [pdf] explains how to view your marks.

Lecturers can choose to mark, and/or grade your assignment online using Turnitin, and will tell you if this is how you will receive the feedback on your assignment. Your lecturer will tell you the ‘post date’, when you will be able to see your grade and view your marked assignment. If you don’t know when the ‘post date’ for your assignment is, ask your lecturer.

Student Life's Disability Service has written a guide - Attaching the SpLD sticker electronically [pdf] - to explain how to attach Disability Stickers electronically to your work. If you have any trouble with this please contact your school or the Disability Service on 0161 295 9000

• Follow our User Guide - Using Turnitin in Blackboard: a guide for students. [pdf]
• Guidance on how to avoid plagiarism is available from the Study Skills tab within Blackboard.
• Help on referencing your work is available from your Academic Support Librarian.
• Further support in referencing and assignment writing is available from Student Life.

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