Using the JISC Plagiarism Detection Software within WebCT

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Login to WebCT From on Campus type http://webct in your browser and press enter. 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 the TurnitinUK Assignment option.

From the expanded window click on Create TurnitinUK Assignment The Assignment Setup Wizard 1. 2. 3. 4. Enter a title Click on the Create TurnitinUK Assignment button Enter an Assignment Title 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 start submitting assignments from this date) 6. Enter the due date (students cant submit assignments after this date 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 select a rubric set? 9. Leave the default of yes to the question Generate Originality Reports for submissions? 10. Change the option of no to yes to the question Show advanced assignment options? (This will allow you to control how students submit their assignments further) From the drop down selection box, chose which option you would like to use for the question Generate Originality Reports for student submissions. The options are: immediately (first report is final) - Reports will be generated immediately for all submissions and students cannot resubmit their papers (default). immediately (can overwrite reports until due date) Reports for a student's initial submission will be generated immediately. Students can choose to resubmit their papers and receive Originality Reports as many times as they would like up until 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 for submissions until the assignment's due date. Students can submit their papers as many times as they would like up until the assignment's due date. 11. 12. Leave the default of no to the question Allow submissions after the due date? if you want to block submissions after the date you set in point 6. Ensure Yes is selected for Allow other papers to be checked against submissions? This will mean that papers submitted will be checked against other students work for all Universitys that use the TurnitinUK system. Select which search targets to use (or not) to compare submissions against. The defaults are: the student paper database, current and archived internet, Gale InfoTrac OneFile (a comprehensive periodical resource that holds more than 39 million database records, 9,200 titles and backfile coverage
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from 1980 from mainstream to specialized sources for virtually every popular, business and professional topic.) and Emerald Publishing (Emerald is a leading English language publisher of academic and professional literature in the fields of management, library services and engineering.) You can select to make these options the default for future assignments by answering yes to the question would you like to save these options as your defaults for future assignments? Click the submit button (towards the top of the page) to create the assignment. You will then be returned to your assignments page.

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

Viewing Originality Reports once work has been submitted

1. To view an originality report click on a report icon 2. You will be presented with the students piece of work on the left hand side of the screen and any linked sources on the right hand side of the screen. 3. The source of the item can be displayed by clicking once on the marked 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 the bibliography. 6. Close the originality report by pressing the cross in the top right hand corner of the screen, to be returned to the assignment inbox.

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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 possible similarity 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 TurnitinUKs assessment of whether a paper has or has not been plagiarized. Originality Reports are simply tools to help you find sources that contain text similar to submitted papers. The decision to deem any work plagiarized must be made carefully, and only after careful examination of both the submitted paper and the suspect sources.
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How Students Submit Assignments 1. 2. 3. 4. Login to WebCT Click on the Course title Click on the Assignment name Click the submit icon

5. Enter a name for your essay / assignment 6. Click the Browse button to search for the assignment you want to upload 7. Once you have found your file press the Open button on the File Upload dialog box to be returned to the submission screen 8. Click on the yes, submit button 9. You will then be presented with a TurnitinUK digital receipt. This receipt will also be emailed to the student. You may want to ask the student to write this on the front cover of the hard-copy version of their assignment? 10. Click on the Portfolio icon to be returned to the original screen as 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 to 10MB in size.

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