Plagiarism Detection (TurnItIn) Turnitin is a software for the detection of copying and academic papers plagiarism. Turnitinis enbedded in the openeclass platform and so the teacher can check/detect whether the assignments uploaded by the students are a product of their own work or a copy. The students perform their assignments and Turnitin compares their content with other sources in its databases This way the teacher can detect if the submitted assignment is a product of plagiarism. To create a new assignment with the TurnitInfunction initially select “New Assignment Creation”.

Then in the field “Assignment Type” select “TurnItIn” .

Thenyoumustdeterminethehighestscoreforthisparticularassignmentand its time frame (start date, submission deadline).

Tocompletetheassignmentcreationselectthefields “Compare against” and “Reportsimilarity”.

Byselecting“Compareagainst” turnitinwillcomparethesubmittedassignmentinapredeterminedpublicationdatabase against material which derives from the internet as well as from scientific magazines and publications. In “Reportsimilarity” you can determine the report issuance to the students through a series of selectable parameters. Inthenextstepoftheprocessthestudentsuploadtheiranswersforthespecificassignmentwhichhasthefunctionturnitin activated.

After the submission of the assignments you as teacher have at your disposal a series of functions which concern the assignment. Specifically: • Presentations: It shows if one or more students have viewed the specific assignment • Grade: Shows the grade with which you have assessed the specific assignment • Similarity: Shows the percentage and determines the degree of similarity between the content of the specific assignment and the turnitiIN databases • Selections: Through the selections you can upload,download,delete.

Youcanregisteragradetoaspecificassignment.Inordertoregisteragradepress the corresponding field.

Intheformchoosethegradeyouwishandifyoudonotwantto make any more changes close the particular window.Turnitinwill save the grade you have registered for the assignment.

Withthisfunctionyoucandescribethesimilaritypercentageoffthespecificassignmentasitcameoutfromasourceininternet. With red you outline the similarity and with blue the source(url).