Turnitin How to Guides for Students
- The TurnItIn student guides have been collated, developed and designed to support and guide students with using our new plagiarism detection tool called TurnItIn.
- The guides are a mix of internal and external user guides and videos to help you use TurnItIn within Brightspace.
- You can view the entire list of TurnItIn resources or filter by 'Category'
- You can also use the 'Search' bar to search for a particular area of interest
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| Assignments | Brightspace | TurnItIn Guide | Looking for a specific file? You can use the search bar to look for any file or folder. | |
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Submitting to an Originality, Similarity and SimCheck assignment |
Assignments | Brightspace | TurnItIn Guide | These instructions can be used for submitting to an assignment for the first time, or resubmitting to an assignment if your instructor has enabled resubmissions to an assignment. |
| Similarity Report | Brightspace | TurnItIn Guide | Instructions on how to access Similarity Report. |
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| Similarity Report | Brightspace | TurnItIn Guide | The similarity score is the percentage of matched text your submission contains. We calculate this by dividing the total words in a submission by the amount of words matched to outside sources. | |
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Viewing your Similarity Report with Microsoft Teams Similarity |
Similarity Report | Brightspace | TurnItIn Guide | Similarity Reports are available for review shortly after submission. You can find the Similarity Report link in the My Work section of the Assignment page. |
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Using multicolor highlighting in the classic Similarity Report view |
Similarity Report | Brightspace | TurnItIn Guide | To apply multicolor highlighting to the Similarity Report |
| Grading & Feedback | Brightspace | TurnItIn Guide |
You can view your submission's overall grade from the top right-hand corner of the document viewer. You can also see the maximum points available for this assignment. |
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General information |
Brightspace | TurnItIn Guide |
Access the student hub in Turnitin. For instructional guides |