Submit a Paper (TurnItIn)

NOTE: To Submit a Paper you need to first create an assignment in your class. You can use the same assignment for all papers in your class.

Submitting a Paper as an Instructor

If you want to submit papers yourself, click on the "View" link to the right of the paper assignment to open the assignment inbox and then click on the "Submit Paper" button. On the paper submission page, enter the paper's title and enter the student’s name.

Select the option to Choose from Google Drive.

If prompted, Allow permissions for TurnItIn to access your Google Drive. Select the paper from your Google Drive.

When you are done, click the "Upload" button to upload the paper.

Confirmation

A preview of the paper you chose to submit will be shown on this page. Look over all the information and make sure that it is correct. To confirm the submission, click the "Confirm" button.

Accessing Inbox

After you submit a paper, our system will begin processing the paper and will generate an Originality Report within minutes for supported file types. To view the report, click the "Inbox" button on submission confirmation page. Your assignment inbox will open. Please note that you can also open your assignment inbox from your class homepage by clicking on the "View" link in the Actions column next to the paper assignment.

Viewing Originality Reports

Your Assignment Inbox shows submitted papers with their Originality Reports if available.

To open the Originality Report for the paper you just submitted, click the report icon. Note: A grayed out report icon indicates that the report has not yet been generated. Please wait a few moments and click your browser's refresh button.

The Originality Report will open in a new window called the Document Viewer. The Document Viewer allows instructors to access each Turnitin product in one location and view all the products simultaneously as layers. All the top sources found to match the paper submission are in the sidebar to the right of the paper contents. Top sources are the sources that have the closest match (most matching words without variation) to the document's text. To view all underlying sources for a top source hover the cursor over the source and click on the arrow icon. The overlapping sources are listed below the top source. To exclude a source from the Match Breakdown list click on the 'Select Sources to be Excluded' button at the bottom of the source list. Click on the check box next to all the sources you would like to exclude. Once you have selected all the sources to exclude, click on the 'Exclude (#)' button at the bottom of the Match Breakdown list. If the sources that were excluded affects the Similarity Index it will recalculate and display a new percentage of matching content.

Leaving Feedback on Submissions

From the Assignment Inbox click on the blue pencil icon next to the paper title to open the paper in GradeMark to grade the student submission online. The GradeMark system contains several tools and types of mark that instructors can use in grading and assessing papers. These include: comments, inline comments, QuickMark comments, rubric scorecards, general comments, and voice comments