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Turnitin: Instructions for Professors

Directions for Submitting Your First Paper to Turnitin.com

1. Go to www.turnitin.com.
   
2. Click "New Users" (in the top right corner).
   
3. Select "user type" from dialog box drop-down choices: student. Click the "next"
   button.
   
4. Fill in the class ID and enrollment password that has been provided by your
   teacher. Click the "next" button.
   
5. Enter your e-mail address. Click the "next" button.
   
6. Follow directions for creating a password. Enter the password twice. Click the
   "next" button.
   
7. Select a "secret question" from the dialog box drop-down choices and then
   provide the "question answer." Click the "next" button.
   
8. Enter your first name and your last name. Click the "next" button.
   
9. Read user agreement. Click "I agree–create profile" to complete "user profile."
   
10. Read the welcome message and brief instructions on submitting a paper.
    
11. Click "end wizard and log in." You will be taken directly to your student
    homepage.
    
12. Click on the name of your class.
    
13. Click on the little submit icon.
    
14. Enter your first and last name: Type in a "submission title" for your paper.
    • Select one of the following ways to submit your paper:
      
      1. File upload. Select "file upload" from drop-down choices at the top of the
         dialog box then browse to find your paper. Click the "submit" button.
         
      2. Cut and paste. Select "cut & paste" from drop-down choices at the top of
         the dialog box. Copy and paste your paper into the text box. Click the
         "submit" button.
         
15. You will see a portion of the paper you have submitted and will be asked to
    confirm that this is the correct paper by clicking on "yes, submit."
    
16. You'll get a "digital receipt"–a number that indicates that Turnitin.com received
    your paper. Write this down or print out this page! (this is your hard copy
    evidence that you actually submitted your paper to Turnitin.com. If you don't get
    to the digital receipt page, you have NOT submitted your paper.)
    
17. Log out (top of the screen).

Directions for Submitting All Subsequent Papers to Turnitin.com

1. Go to www.turnitin.com.
   
2. Sign in with the e-mail address and the password you used in Steps 5 and 6 above.
   
3. Follow the directions above from step #12 onwards.

Using PUC's Account at Turnitin.com

To start Turninit.com, you need to join the PUC account and setup your user profile. Then you add your class and the first assignment. These two tasks can be accomplished
in about 15 minutes. The steps are numbered continuously–assuming that you will do
both tasks in one session. (These instructions are a distillation of the 11-page
"Quickstart" instructions.)

First, join the PUC account and setup your user profile at Turnitin.com.

1. Go to www.turnitin.com
   
2. Click "New Users" (in the top right corner).
   
3. Select "user type" from dialog box drop-down choices: instructor. Click the
   "next" button.
   
4. Enter the PUC account ID and password. You will need to contact ITSS at
   965-7000 to obtain this information. Click "next" button
   
5. Enter your e-mail address. Click the "next" button.
   
6. Follow directions for creating a password. Enter the password twice. Click
   the "next" button.
   
7. Select a "secret question" from the dialog box drop-down choices and then
   provide the "question answer." Click the "next" button.
   
8. Enter your first name and your last name. Click the "next" button.
   
9. Read user agreement. Click "I agree–create profile" to complete "user
   profile."
   
10. Select "start class setup wizard."

Don't go away! Now you're ready to add your class and first assignment.

1. Enter your class' name (ex. English 101). Click the "next" button
   
2. Write down your class ID number. Make up a class enrollment password for
   your students to use (ex. Mypapers). You will distribute this class ID number
   and password (&OT the PUC number and password!) to your students. Click
   the "next" button
   
3. Enter name of first assignment. Select due date. Click the "next" button.
   
4. Click "end wizard and log in." You will be taken directly to your instructor
   homepage.
   
5. Click on the class' name and you will then see the first assignment you just
   created. Click on the assignment to review and update the dates and other
   options available for the assignment. At the bottom of the dialog box you will
   be given an opportunity to "save these options as your defaults for future
   assignments." Click the "submit" button.
   
6. Click "log out" (at the very top of the screen).
   

Now your students can submit their own papers to Turnitin.com. In class, distribute the student instruction sheet (to which you have added your class ID number and easy-to-remember password, which you created in Step 12).