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Plagiarism: What is It and How to Prevent It: Turnitin.com

This guide will answer all your questions about plagiarism, including how to spot it, and what to do to prevent it.

To access Turnitin.com click on the icon below:

Create an Account

Before logging in to Turnitin, get the Class ID and password from your teacher.

Returning Users

If you've already used Turnitin through Christ School, log in and follow the video to 'Join a Class.' If you forgot your password, follow the reset password instructions under 'Log In.'

New Users

If you're new to Turnitin, follow the 'Creating a New User Profile' and 'Join a Class' tutorials. Use your gaggle email to create a new account.

Acceptable File Types

Turnitin accepts the follow file types.

  • Microsoft Word™ (DOC and DOCX)
  • Corel WordPerfect®
  • HTML
  • Adobe PostScript®
  • Plain text (TXT)
  • Rich Text Format (RTF)
  • Portable Document Format (PDF)
  • Microsoft PowerPoint (PPT, PPTX, and PPS)
  • Hangul (HWP)

You can also upload documents from Google Drive. Unfortunately, Turnitin does not accept Mac Pages. If you are using Mac Pages, save the file as RTF to upload. For more help saving in RTF, see the 'Mac Pages Users' box below.

Resubmitting a Paper

If your teacher allows you to resubmit your work, you can do so by going to the assignment and clicking the blue 'Resubmit' button.

Follow the normal steps to submit your edited work. Once submitted, both you and your teacher will only see the most recent Originality Report.

Note: Once the due date for an assignment passes, you are not allowed to resubmit your work. It may take up to 24 hours for you to receive the new Originality Report for resubmitted material.

Returning Users

Submit a Document

Submitting a paper by single file upload:

  1. Start by clicking on the class name you would like to submit to after logging in to Turnitin
  2. Click on the Submit button to the right of the assignment name
  3. Select single file upload from the choose a paper submission method: pull down menu
  4. Once the requirements for single file upload have been reviewed, students have a choice to upload a file from:
    1. the computer
    2. Dropbox
    3. or Google Drive
    Click one of the submission buttons and then select the file you would like to upload
  5. Fill in the submission title field with the title
  6. Click upload to upload the file. A status bar will appear displaying the upload progress
  7. Review the preview panel. This is a text only version of the paper being uploaded. Confirm it is the correct version of the file to send
  8. Click the "submit" button
    Warning: This step must be completed, or the submission is not finished. The paper will not be available to the student or the instructor

After the submission has been completed on step 7 a digital receipt is displayed on screen. A copy is also sent via e-mail to the address for the user login. Save the receipt and the paper ID it contains, as this is proof of a completed submission.

The digital receipt contains a unique paper ID number, the name of the user profile submitting, the paper title given by the submitting party, the assignment title, and the e-mail address for the user submitting, as well as the body text of the file submitted.

(The above steps are courtesy of Turnitin.com)

Mac Pages Users

If you do not have one of the above file types, you can still submit to Turnitin by saving your document in Rich Text Format.

1. Open your document and click 'Export' then 'Word or RTF' and 'Next.'

2. Title the document next to 'Save As:' and uncheck the box next to "Hide Extension."

3. Click 'Export.'

4. Follow the video below to submit your document, making sure that you select the saved file with .rft extension.