will create an originality reports and sent them back to the Trunk assignment for the instructor to view.

Selecting 'On Due Date' will delay sending copies of the paper to Turnitin until the assignment due date/time.

This process usually takes about 15-20 minutes, depending on the length of the paper. will create an originality report and sent it back to the Trunk assignment for the instructor to view.

Selecting 'Immediately' will cause a copy of the submitted paper to be sent immediately to.Other papers submitted to Turnitin (anywhere in the world) will be checked against it. Selecting 'Standard Paper Repository' means that after the originality check has been performed on the paper, the paper will go into Turnitin's paper repository.If 'none' is selected, the second version of the paper submitted (on a different assignment) will not be checked against the draft version the same paper. This might be a good choice if the assignment is for a 'draft' paper. Selecting 'None' means that after the originality check has been performed on the paper, the paper will not go into Turnitin's paper repository.Note: When Turnitin is used on an assignment, s tudents will have a note on their assignment form indicating that the assignment will be checked by the Turnitin plagiarism service.ġ- Submit papers to the following repository: Students cannot check their own papers via Turnitin without an instructor created assignment. The Tufts contract with Turnitin is an instructor only service. If you have students submitting a 'draft' paper assignment and assign a Turnitin originality report to it, you will need to create a second assignment for Turnitin to check the final draft of the paper. Turnitin can be used only once per assignment.

Turnitin scans the Internet, its own databases, and also has licensing agreements with large academic proprietary databases. Instructors receive (in the Trunk Assignments tool) an “Originality Report” from Turnitin for each student submission. Instructors can arrange to have papers submitted to the Trunk Assignments tool checked, by Turnitin, for potential unoriginal content by comparing submitted papers to several databases using a proprietary algorithm. Tufts University has a University-wide contract with the Turnitin plagiarism detection service.

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