Turnitin.com is a program that checks for plagiarism and allows students/teachers to edit papers. Plagiarism is taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own. Once you have a turnitin.com account, you can add as many classes as you'd like to that account. Please do not create new accounts for each class.
Getting started: creating a user profile
- Log onto http://turnitin.com/en_us/home
- Click on “create account” at the top of page
- Under “Create a User Profile”, click on the “student” link to create a new account.
- Type in your Turnitin class I.D. # and password (teacher will give you this information)
- Enter your first name, last name, email address (preferably your DUSD email)
- Create a password for your account containing 6-12 characters (must include at least 1 number and 1 letter)
- Select a secret password question from the pull-down menu
- Enter a secret answer to the question in the box
- Click on “I agree – create profile” link
Using turnitin.com
- To enter a class, click on class name
- At your class home page, you can submit an assignment by clicking “submit” next to that assignment
- Enter the title of your paper
- Select the paper for submission by clicking the “Browse” button
- A submission page will appear: to submit it, click “yes, submit”
- You will see a digital receipt and you will be emailed a receipt that confirms your submission
Upload your essay/assignment directly from Google Drive!