Welcome to Introduction to Turnitin for Students

 

OVERVIEW

 

Turnitin is plagiarism prevention software Farmingdale State College has acquired for submission of papers to check for plagiarism / text matching and to help promote originality.

 

2 WAYS TO ACCESS  Turnitin

 

Go to http://www.farmingdale.edu/library/dbquick.html

 

Click Turnitin

 

From a web browser type:      www.turnitin.com

 

Either option will bring you to the Turnitin Home Page

 

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How to Create Your Turnitin Account – from the Turnitin Home Page (www.turnitin.com)

 

Click New User  (upper part of the screen)

 

1.  Scroll down  and click  New Users  (bottom right)

 

Click  Student

 

 

2.  You will be asked for your Class ID and Class Enrollment  PasswordThese will be provided by your Instructor.

  

Type in your Turnitin Class ID:

    Example:  1234567

 

Type in your Turnitin class enrollment class password

    Example:  math101   

 

3.  Type in your user information and click on I agree to create your profile.

 

 

You will receive the message:  “Thank you!  You have successfully joined the class XXXXXXX.”

   

Note:  Your name will appear on your Turnitin Home page when you login.

  

4.  Log in to your class

 

You are now logged in to your class and will see a screen with your class details.

 

Click the link of the class name

 

Example:  Mathematics 101

 

You will see a page with an assignment name link.

 

Example:  Term Paper

 

Note the icon under the submit column.

 

Click the submit icon

 

Type your First nameJohn

 

Type your Last nameSmith

 

Type your paper title: Final paper for math

 

Now you need to upload your paper.

 

The default option is file upload.

 

Note the Browse button.  This is where you will navigate to locate your document. 

 

For example:  c:\my documents, a:\, d:\, e:\

 

Click the Browse button and select your file.

 

File types accepted for submission are:  MS Word (.doc), Word Perfect, Adobe Acrobat .pdf, Postscript, web page format .html, Revisable Form Text .rft, and plain text .txt.

 

Click   

 

You will receive a message “Is this the paper you want to submit?”

 

A preview of the paper will appear on the screen.  If it is the correct paper,

 

Click  

 

Depending on the length of your paper, this may take several seconds.

 

If you want to cancel this submission, click on the link to the right

no, go back.

 

You will receive a digital receipt of the paper that you have submitted.

 

To return to your class assignment portfolio:

 

Click my classes

 

To exit Turnitin:

 

Click logout on the Turnitin menu bar

 

Questions & Technical Support :

 

Theresa Zahor         

Greenley Library

zahorta@farmingdale.edu

631-420-2472

 

Rev. 09/09