Using the JISC Plagiarism Detection Software Within WebCT

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JISC – Plagiarism Detection Software

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Login to WebCT

From on Campus type http:/ / webct in your browser and pressenter.

From off Campus type http:/ / webct.nottingham.ac.uk/ webct and press enter

Enter your username and password and press OK.

From the main interface click on the name of your course

On the Build tab, expand the add content link and then select theTurnitinUK Assignment option.

From the expanded w indow click on Create TurnitinUKAssignment

The Assignment Setup Wizard

1. Enter a title2. Click on the Create TurnitinUK Assignment button3. Enter an Assignment Title

4. Enter a point value if you use this function in WebCT currently.This is not mandatory and can be left blank.





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5. Enter the start date of the assignment (students can startsubmitting assignments from this date)

6. Enter the due date (students can’t submit assignments after thisdate if used in conjunction with point 11 below)

7. Post dates are used for presenting grades to students.

8. Leave the default of no to the question “Would you like to selecta rubric set?”

9. Leave the default of yes to the question “Generate OriginalityReports for submissions?”

10. Change the option of no to yes to the question “Showadvanced assignment options?” (This will allow you to controlhow students submit their assignments further)From the drop down selection box, chose which option you wouldlike to use for the question “Generate Originality Reports forstudent submissions”. The options are:

immediately (first report is final) - Reports will be generatedimmediately for all submissions and students cannot resubmittheir papers (default).

immediately (can overwrite reports until due date) -Reports for a student's initial submission will be generatedimmediately. Students can choose to resubmit their papers andreceive Originality Reports as many times as they would like upuntil the assignment's due date. Please note that reports are

generated immediately only for a student's first submission;reports for subsequent submissions are delayed 24 hours.

on due date - Originality Reports will not be generated forsubmissions until the assignment's due date. Students cansubmit their papers as many times as they would like up untilthe assignment's due date.

11. Leave the default of no to the question “Allow submissions

after the due date?” if you want to block submissions after thedate you set in point 6.

12. Ensure Yes is selected for “Allow other papers to be checkedagainst submissions?” This will mean that papers submittedwill be checked against other students work for all University’sthat use the TurnitinUK system.

13. Select which search targets to use (or not) to comparesubmissions against. The defaults are: the student paperdatabase, current and archived internet, Gale InfoTrac OneFile

(a comprehensive periodical resource that holds more than 39million database records, 9,200 titles and backfile coverage





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from 1980 — from mainstream to specialized sources forvirtually every popular, business and professional topic.) andEmerald Publishing (Emerald is a leading English languagepublisher of academic and professional literature in the fieldsof management, library services and engineering.)

14. You can select to make these options the default for futureassignments by answering yes to the question “would you liketo save these options as your defaults for futureassignments?”

15. Click the submit button (towards the top of the page) tocreate the assignment.

16. You will then be returned to your assignments page.

Click on the teach tab to preview what the assignment will look likefor students.

Viewing Originality Reports once w ork has been submitted

1. To view an originality report click on a report icon2. You will be presented with the student’s piece of work on the left

hand side of the screen and any linked sources on the right handside of the screen.

3. The source of the item can be displayed by clicking once on themarked up text on the left hand side of the screen

4. The source article will then be displayed on the right hand side of the screen for cross-referencing

5. You also have the option to exclude quoted text and exclude thebibliography.

6. Close the originality report by pressing the cross in the top righthand corner of the screen, to be returned to the assignmentinbox.





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The colour of the report icon indicates the overall similarity index of the paper, based on how much matching text we found. The possiblesimilarity indices are:

• blue (no matching text)

• green (1 word-24% matching text)

• yellow (25-49% matching text)

• orange (50-74% matching text)

• red (75-100% matching text)

These indices do not reflect TurnitinUK’s assessment of whether a paper has or has not been plagiarized. OriginalityReports are simply tools to help you find sources thatcontain text similar to submitted papers. The decision todeem any work plagiarized must be made carefully, and onlyafter careful examination of both the submitted paper and

the suspect sources.





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How Students Submit Assignments

1. Login to WebCT

2. Click on the Course title3. Click on the Assignment name4. Click the submit icon

5. Enter a name for your essay / assignment6. Click the Browse… button to search for the assignment you want

to upload7. Once you have found your file press the Open button on the File

Upload dialog box to be returned to the submission screen8. Click on the yes, submit button9. You will then be presented with a TurnitinUK digital receipt. This

receipt will also be emailed to the student. You may want to askthe student to write this on the front cover of the hard-copyversion of their assignment?

10. Click on the Portfolio icon to be returned to the original screenas in point 4 above.

11. You have now completed the full process.

N.B. TurnitinUK currently accepts the following file types: Word,Text, Postscript, PDF, HTML, and RTF. The file size can be up to10MB in size.

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