Welcome to UOIT's Teaching and Learning Centre's teachtorial on Turnitin on Viewing and Submitting Assignments in Turnitin.
This is one screencast in a series of teachtorials designed to help you
use Turnitin by viewing submitted assignments or by
submitting assignments yourself. Let's get started.
I'm going to log in with my email address and password
and then I'm taken to my Instructor homepage,
where I can see all of the classes that I have set up.
One of the things that you can do in Turnitin
is change yourself from an instructor to a student
so that you can see what your students see. We're going to work with
"ABCD Class 1" and I'm going to change from
instructor and select student.
So now it's as if a student had
logged in with their email address and password into Turnitin.
They will also see from the
student homepage, a list of the classes that they have joined
In this case, there are no classes
that they have joined and we are going to select
"Enroll in a class" and we are going to have this student enroll
in the class - "ABCD Class 1". Remember,
there is a section ID that goes with that class that you will have given
to the students along with a password
which we made "simple" in one of the other teachtorials.
The students then click on "Submit"
and they are now enrolled in the class.
They select the class and now
they see the assignment that has been set up with the name of the
assignment, when it starts, when it is due and the status.
They can also look at the "Show details"
to see more information about the assignment including the
"Please allow 24 hours for resubmitted assignment report to generate"
Now this student is ready to submit their assignment.
They click on the "Submit" button and
they are given two options for submissions -
One is a single file upload and the other is a cut and paste
upload. With a single file upload, they provide their name,
the title of their paper,
and they browse through the file system to find their
paper. They click the button "Upload"
(it takes a few minutes for the submission
to happen) and then they are given a
review page that tells them that they are now
ready to submit their paper. So they click
"Submit" yet one more time (they can look to see if they have the right paper)
and two things happen once they've clicked the
"Submit" button. One is that they will have confirmation that the
submission was successful and the other is that they will receive an email to tell them that
they have submitted the paper. This is all important to them because
they need this information (the paper ID) in case something goes
wrong (which is highly unlikely); but they are able to tell you this paper
ID and you can do a search for the paper.
Once they go back to their portfolio or to their
home page, you'll notice that the submission for the assignment
is now complete.
This is from the student's point of view. Let's have a look at it now from your
perspective as the instructor.
By clicking and changing over from student to instructor,
we are taken back to the Instructor homepage where we can now have a look
at this class and notice that the
paper is there. We have two options to
select here. One is the "View", which allows us to see the Originality Reports
and the other is "More actions" which allows us to
"Edit settings", "Delete an assignment" or
"Submit a paper" ourselves. We're going to look at the "View"
button in the next teachtorial on viewing the Originality Report.
I'll take us back to the class homepage and let's look at how you
would submit a paper for a student. You click on the "Submit button"
and you are taken to a screen that looks
very similar to what the students saw only you have a couple of extra options
You can still do a single file upload,
a cut and paste upload; but you can also do a
multiple file upload or a zip file upload.
By doing a multiple file upload, you are asked for the
actual papers one at a time. This could be quite tedious
if you had several papers to submit so the better
way to do this is to zip the papers into a zip file
and do a zip file upload.
Turnitin gives you all the information that you need to know about
what the requirements are for a zip file and then you just browse
your local system for the zip file and click on "upload".
Turnitin does all the rest of the work for you, in that it will unzip the
papers and set them up in the
originality reports. I'm going to show you the cut and paste
method.
Notice that you still do the same thing
You give it your name, the submission title,
("Cut and paste paper") and you can cut and paste
text from your paper.
So I'm just going to copy that
and then I'm going to come back to this window
and tell it to paste.
Then "upload".
It tells me that it's being processed
there will be a digital record (which is this) and
the paper ID that goes along with it. This concludes our
teachtorial on viewing and submitting assignments.
Thank you for watching.