A Student's Guide to Turnitin
This guide explains how to use Turnitin, a tool to help you avoid plagiarism and reference correctly when submitting assessed work. We explain:
- What Turnitin is and how it is used at the University
- How to submit an assignment to Turnitin
- Where to access the originality report, your digital receipt, and your grade (if Turnitin has been used for the final submission of an assignment).
- How to interpret your originality report, and who to contact for further help.
Important: You can only submit a file to a Turnitin submission point once every 24 hours.
If your tutor has made a draft Turnitin point available, be sure to submit well in advance of your deadline; if you leave it until the last day you may not get the originality report returned in time. Be patient as Turnitin can become very slow to respond in busy periods.
If you are having a problem with Turnitin, you are advised to contact the person who set the Turnitin assignment. Only contact the IT Helpdesk if there is a techincal issue as they will not be able to provide any general guidance on this activity
1. Using Turnitin at kcc
What is Turnitin?
Turnitin is text-matching software, that the college subscribes to and makes available to students via our Virtual Learning Environment, Moodle.
Turnitin provides you with a report that advises you on text matches between your work and work within the Turnitin database, by checking against web pages, academic and commercial journals and publications, and previously submitted student work from all institutions subscribing to Turnitin.