Thursday, March 1, 2007

Instructions to Submit a Paper on Turnitin.com

Logging In
To login to Turnitin:
1. Go to www.turnitin.com.
2. At the top, enter your e-mail address and user password .
3. Click Log In to open your Turnitin homepage.

Submitting a Paper
You will submit papers to your class from your class portfolio. To open your class portfolio, click a class name on your homepage.

The class portfolio lists the assignments your instruc¬tor has created and your submissions to these assign¬ments.

You can submit a paper in two ways:
• by file upload (used to submit a paper as a computer file; we currently accept submissions in Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, RTF, PDF, PostScript, plain text, and HTML formats)

• by cut and paste (used to submit a paper in a file format we do not accept, by cutting and pasting the text into a text box)

To submit by file upload:
1. Click the submit icon next to the desired assignment in your class portfolio .
2. Select file upload from the submission pulldown menu.
3. Enter a title for your submission and an ID
4. Click the Browse button and locate the paper you want to submit.
5. Click submit. On the following page you will be asked to confirm the text of your submission. If the text checks out, click yes, submit to finalize your submission.

After submitting a paper, you will receive a digital receipt. From this screen you can proceed to your class portfolio to view the submission.

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