Turnitin.com
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Setting up your account
First you'll need to set up an account. You must have an e-mail address for this: the address is only used to retrieve your password.
You will turn in all your papers to turnitin.com--and the first time I'll walk everyone through it. Everyone should already have an account unless you are new this trimester to the school system. If you are a new user, please see me, and I'll help you set up an account.
Turnitin.com checks the originality of your work against other students and sources housed on the Internet. It gives you a report too as to what and where those sources are. The language arts department also uses this as a record for meeting state requirements for classes.
Turn it in is also used as a class discussion board where I pose questions and where students also post and answer questions. Both sections of my sophomore English are registered in the same class; therefore, the discussion will include both classes. This makes for a more interesting discussion. The rules are simple. Be respectful of other's opinions and discuss the topic. Personal insults will not be tolerated.
If you have already registered for turnitin.com do not create another account. Instead, add this class.
Go here:
http://turnitin.com/static/index.html
OLD Users:
1. Do NOT create a new account. Go to the log in page.
2. Use your gmail account for the email. If you don't remember the password, ask for the prompt, or have it emailed to you for a reset.
3. When you get into the account, you'll have to add my class
4. Type in the class id. It's on the page with the assignment along with the password.
5. Type in the rest of the information in the required fields.
6. When you create a password, write it down, then give it to me. I'll email it back to you along with your user name and password information for your Holt textbooks.
7. Click on the user agreement at the bottom of the page when done.
8. IMPORTANT: Click onto the "log in to turnitin" button.
You're finished!
Discussion Board
First assignment is to go to the discussion board and answer the questions.
Below are the THREE rules for our discussion board.
1. Be polite and respect other peoples' opinions. For now the responses are unmoderated--if student abuse this, this will change, so post responsibly.
2. Use specific examples and explain your reasoning on your comments. Don't just say you like something or don't like agree with something. State why.
3. Correct spelling and punctuation please. No chat speak. If you need to open another window and compose on Word, do it.
Submitting and peer marking papers
When you are done with your paper, always “save as” rich text format.
To submit paper:
- Log in with your email as user name and password you created.
- Click on our class “Jolin Sophomore English ___”
- Click on the submit button under the paper assignment.
- Choose “single file upload.”
- Type in title
- Browse to your file. Note: your paper can not be open in Word when submitting.
- Upload.
- Screen pops up that has your paper in it. The formatting will not be the same—it is only a preview. This window is only for you to look at the paper and see if it’s the correct one. If it is, click “submit.”
- You should now see your paper. The formatting may still be incorrect.
To peermark a paper:
1. Go through steps 1 and 2 above.
2. If papers are ready for peer marking, they will be under “peer mark.”
3. Using the editing tools, edit for spelling, grammar and punctuation. Note any confusing areas.
4. Click on “start review” under TITLE. Answer all the questions regarding the paper.