Administrator Training

Educational Impact

Turnitin has proven to be effective by both quantitative analyses and anecdotal case studies. The following analyses on the effectiveness of Turnitin reveal how institutions, instructors and students benefit from its use:

• Research
• White Papers
• Success Stories
• Correlations

Research

The Effectiveness of Turnitin

How educators are reducing serious incidents of unoriginal writing and improving student writing.
Summary | Full Study

Literature Review

Independently Published Studies on Turnitin Services
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The Scientific Basis of Turnitin

Research on Effective Writing Pedagogy and Practice
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White Papers

Turnitin: A Web-Based Solution for Collaborative Writing in the 21st Century

How Educators Can Help Students Develop Both Content Knowledge and 21st Century Skills
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Engaging Students in the Writing Process with Turnitin

How Instructors Across the Disciplines Can Manage Written Assignments and Deliver Rich Feedback
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Teaching Writing Across the Curriculum

How Instructors Can Artfully Manage Written Assignments While Building a Learning Community
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Success Stories

About 7500 educational institutions use Turnitin, including more than 2,500 higher education institutions and close to 5,000 secondary schools use Turnitin. Among Turnitin's customers are 69 percent of the top 100* colleges and universities and 56 percent of the top 100** high schools.
Read Success Stories For Middle and High Schools
Read Success Stories For Colleges and Universities

* 2011 U.S. News and World Report: Best Colleges
** 2011 U.S. News and World Report: America’s Best High Schools

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Correlations

Turnitin Correlation to National Common Core State Standards

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Turnitin Correlation to Specific State Standards

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Administrator Training

Attend a Live Walkthrough

Turnitin offers instructors and administrators complimentary live, online training sessions with a product specialist to help you get started with using Turnitin.

In each session, we'll demonstrate how to:

1. Join an institutional account create a profile, and navigate the instructor homepage.
2. Create classes and assignments, enroll students, submit papers, and manage assignments and students.
3. Navigate OriginalityCheck and interpret originality reports
4. Use GradeMark to add comments and feedback on a paper, create and use rubrics

There is always time afterwards to ask specific questions to our product specialists who will gladly answer questions or demonstrate additional features.

These sessions are conducted multiple times each day on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays with no pre-registration necessary.

Click here for schedule »

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Administrator Training

Training Tutorials

The following administrator training tutorials will show you how to perform most of the functions for Turnitin under the Administrator Role. We recommend that Administrators also go to the Turnitin Training Center and watch or read our collection of training videos and documentation for instructors and students as well.

Here's an introductory video for administrators to get started:

Administrator Set-up Tutorials

1. Adding (and Modifying) Accounts
2. Adding (and Modifying) Instructors
3. Getting Help for Administrators
4. Glossary of Turnitin Terminology

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Administrator Account Management Tutorials

1. QuickMark Library
2. Rubric Library
3. Viewing Statistics

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Administrator Training

Adding Instructors by List Upload

This is the fastest way to get instructors activated in Turnitin:

1. Prepare a list of instructors for upload. There are three ways to do this:
   • Create a three coumn spreadsheet with First Name, Last Name, and Email Address in separate columns with one instructor per row. Save this file as a Microsoft Excel file (.xls or .xlsx).
   • Create a Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) or Plain Text (.txt) file with First Name, Last Name, and Email Address with commas and no spaces between each, one instructor per line (for example, John,Doe,jdoe@example.com).
2. Click the instructor icon to the right of the account name.
3. Click the upload list button at the top of the instructor list.
4. Click browse to find the instructor list file on your computer.
5. Find the file on your computer and click open.
6. Click submit to upload the list.
7. Review the list of instructors and click yes, submit to finalize the list submission.

Turnitin will not create duplicate instructor profiles with the same email address. If an instructor already has a Turnitin profile (with the same email address) with another institution, they will simply be joined to your institution's account—users can belong to multiple institutional accounts.

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Adding an Individual Instructor

To add an instructor individually:

1. Click the instructor icon to the right of the account name.
2. Click the add instructor button at the top of the instructor list.
3. Enter the instructor's name and e-mail address in the appropriate fields.
4. Click submit to finalize the addition.

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Having Instructors Join an Account

For instructors to join an account they will need the Account ID automatically assigned to the account and the join password that was assigned when the account was created. This information can be viewed by clicking on the stats icon on the Turnitin administrator homepage.

Account ID and Join Password information should only be distributed directly to instructors authorized to join the account.

Do not post this information to a public webpage or internet site. This could allow unauthorized persons to use this account after running a web search and finding this information posted.

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