Submitting Papers as an Instructor

Only instructors and students can submit papers to classes in Turnitin. When an instructor submits a paper he or she can do so in the place of an enrolled student or in the name of a non-enrolled student. Instructors can use one of four submission methods; single file upload, cut and paste, bulk upload or zip file upload.

If the instructor has a copy of the file and would like to submit for an individual student, he or she can use the single file upload method.

How to submit a single file as an instructor

1. Click on the class name click on the class name
2. Click on the paper shaped submit icon to the right of the assignment name click the submit icon
3. Select "file upload" from the "submit a paper by:" pull down menu select file upload
4. Select the e-mail address of the student you would like to submit for (if the student is not enrolled, select "non-enrolled student") select the e-mail address of the student you would like to submit for
5. Enter the author's first name, last name and the paper title for the submission in the appropriate fields enter the student's name
6. Click browse to find the file on your computer click browse
7. Find the file on your computer and click open click open
8. Click submit clcik submit
9. Review the file and click "yes, submit" to finalize the submission click yes, submit

If the instructor would like to submit only a section of text from a file, only has the file in an unaccepted file type or only has a hard copy of the paper he or she would like to submit, the instructor should use the cut and paste method of submission.

How to use the cut and paste method of submission as an instructor

1. Click on the class name click on the class name
2. Click on the paper shaped submit icon to the right of the assignment name click the submit icon
3. Select "cut & paste" from the "submit a paper by:" pull down menu select cut and paste
4. Select the e-mail address of the student you would like to submit for (if the student is not enrolled, select "non-enrolled student") select the e-mail address of the student you would like to submit for
5. Enter the author's first name, last name and the paper title for the submission in the appropriate fields enter the student's name
6. Either select the text you would like to submit from the source file on your computer, or type the text you would like to submit in the large "cut and paste" field paste or type your text in the cut and paste field
7. Click submit to finalize the submission clcik submit

If the instructor would like to submit multiple students files at once, he or she can use the bulk upload method of submission.

How to bulk upload files

1. Click on the class name click on the class name
2. Click on the paper shaped submit icon to the right of the assignment name click the submit icon
3. Select "bulk upload" from the "submit a paper by:" pull down menu select bulk upload
4. Select the e-mail address of the student you would like to submit for (if the student is not enrolled, select "non-enrolled student") select the e-mail address of the student you would like to submit for
5. Enter the author's first name, last name and the paper title for the submission in the appropriate fields enter the student's name
6. Click browse to find the file on your computer click browse
7. Find the file on your computer and click open click open to open the file
8. Click attach to add the file to the submission list click attach to add the file to your list
9. Repeat steps 4-8 for the remaining student's papers
10. Review the list of files and click submit to finalize the submission clcik submit

If the instructor has all the files he or she would like to submit for students in a zip file, the instructor can use the zip file upload method.

How to upload a zip file

1. Click on the class name click on the class name
2. Click on the paper shaped submit icon to the right of the assignment name click the submit icon
3. Select "zip file upload" from the "submit a paper by:" pull down menu select zipfile upload
4. Click browse to find the file on your computer click browse
5. Click submit submit zipfile
6. Review the list of files and enter the authors' names and paper titles nter the aithors and titles for the papers
7. Click submit submit zipfile
8. Review the final list of files and click submit to finalize the submission submit zipfile

Additional information and related links

  • Turnitin will automatically exclude papers submitted to the class under the same author's name from the Originality Report for a paper. Please note the names must be identical for this feature to work (i.e. John Doe is not recognized as the same author as Jonathan Doe).

  • Turnitin currently accepts the following file types for submission: MS Word (.doc), WordPerfect (.wpd), PostScript (.eps), Portable Document Format (.pdf), HTML (.htm), Rich Text (.rtf) and Plain Text (.txt). All files submitted to Turnitin must be text based. Papers which have been scanned must be sent through Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software before they can be submitted to Turnitin.

  • The automatic exclusion mentioned above is based first on the author's e-mail address then on the author's name. This means even if the authors' of two papers in the class have the same name (i.e. John Doe and John Doe) the system will not exclude the papers from one another's Originality Reports if different e-mail addresses are used (i.e. JDoe@turnitin.com and non-enrolled student). The system will exclude the papers from one another's Originality Report if the same or no e-mail address is used and the names are identical.

  • For information on submitting through Quick Submit, please view our article on using Quick Submit.