About Turnitin for Faculty

     As part of our effort to teach information competency and academic integrity, Cuyamaca College has purchased Turnitin.

1) To get started view the training materials at the www.turnitin.com website.  Cuyamaca has purchased "Plagiarism Prevention". We do not subscribe to Grademark, Peer review, GradeBook. You have the option of having your students at Cuyamaca College submit most or all of their written take-home assignments to you through Turnitin.

2) You may request an account from Jeri Resto, account administrator.
You may also earn professional flex credit (2 hours). 

3) You must revise your syllabi that you will be using Turnitin.
Jeri has provided suggested syllabi wording.

4) You must have them sign a written consent .

5) You must be aware of FERPA and FPCO and Cuyamaca Academic Honesty Policies and limitations of Turnitin

6) If you choose to have your students upload their papers, please provide sample student instructions, You need to instruct your students on how to create a user account, join their class, and upload/submit assignments

     Turnitin then compares the work for sentence or phrase matches against three databases: a comprehensive Internet snapshot, a library of published articles, and a pool of millions of previously submitted student papers. The instructor receives an "Originality report" and a "Similarity Index" (see illustration) for each submitted student work and a percentage of the work that contains plagiarized material.