Tips for submitting assignments to TurnItIn.com

Both of my Paper 1 assign­ments are due this week.

IS 6100 stu­dents must turn in their Paper 1 assign­ments by noon HT on Wednes­day, Jan­u­ary 31.

IS 7010 stu­dents must sub­mit their Paper 1 assign­ments by noon HT on Fri­day, Feb­ru­ary 2.

Stu­dents who have never turned in an assign­ment at TurnItIn.com should read the Stu­dent Quick­Start guide at http://www.turnitin.com/static/pdf/tii_student_qs.pdf. This guide explains the sub­mis­sion process in an easy step-by-step format.

Here’s a very impor­tant tip: After a stu­dent uploads their file, TurnItIn.com dis­plays it in an unfor­mat­ted ver­sion. This allows the stu­dent to con­firm that the text of the paper resem­bles what they submitted.

Some stu­dents get con­fused at this stage because the screen does not dis­play fonts, tabs, tables and other for­mat­ting prop­erly, if at all.

Noth­ing is wrong with the sub­mit­ted file.
Other stu­dents stop at this point, because they haven’t seen the “Yes, sub­mit” but­ton on the con­fir­ma­tion page. They think that the paper has been sub­mit­ted, but the sub­mis­sion process involves an impor­tant final step.

The stu­dent MUST press this Yes, sub­mit but­ton to send in their assign­ment. TurnItIn.com requires stu­dents to press two sub­mit but­tons on two pages! Here’s an exam­ple from the Quick­Start PDF file.

TurnItIn.com sends a dig­i­tal receipt to the student’s reg­is­tered e-mail account when the file has been sub­mit­ted. This e-mail mes­sage is the student’s con­fir­ma­tion that the assign­ment was accepted by TurnItIn.com.

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