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General Guidelines and Tips

1. Create a User Profile as an Instructor
   • Use Dowling's account ID and password to join the account.
   • If you ever forget your password, use the password help link from Turnitin.com.
   • For an additional questions or problems, contact Chris Kretz, account administrator.
2. Create a Class
   • Use the add a class link to create a new class.
   • Each class you create will have its own ID number (generated automatically) and password (you create - and it's case sensitive). You must give this information to your students in order for them to "join" your class and submit their papers.
   • By default, students cannot view their originality reports.
   • A class lasts six months before it becomes inactive. You can still view it, but you cannot submit papers. You can opt for a longer class time or reactivate an inactive class at a later date.
3. Create an Assignment
   • Set deadlines for submissions, including whether or not to accept late work.
   • Assignment types: you can create a revision assignment which will let students resubmit a new draft of any previous assignment.
4. Quick Submit
   • Quick Submit lets you bypass the class/assignment route if you only have one or two papers that you want to submit yourself.
   • You must first activate Quick Submit under your User Info section.
   • You must have the paper in electronic form either on a disk or on your hard drive.
5. Originality Reports
   • You can save or e-mail originality reports.
   • Turnitin gives you the option to exclude material within quotations marks and items listed in a bibliography.
6. Other
   • Make sure that your students are aware that you are using Turnitin. It is recommended that you include it in your syllabus.
   • Turnitin will alert you to sources that contain a degree of matching text. The final determination of wheter or not plagiarism has occurred is up to the instructor.