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Plagiarism Prevention

Detect plagiarism and improve students’ writing standards

The Plagiarism Prevention service assists you in detecting web-based plagiarism in your students' assignments. This service is provided through Turnitin.com.

You can submit assignments for checking on behalf of your students, or you can get students to submit assignments directly to this service. The program scans the document for similarities with a variety of databases. It generates a report which highlights possible plagiarized paragraphs and provides the corresponding source.

 

I am an NUS:  Student     Faculty Member
* Select your choice

NUS Email User ID:  @nus.edu.sg
* Your User ID is the portion before the @ symbol in your NUS Email address
  (DO NOT key in your Matric number or NUS Email alias)

Password: 
* Password of your NUS Email account

* Students are reminded to get the Turnitin Class ID and Enrollment Password from their Instructor in order to enroll into a Turnitin Class once they login to the system.

 

Instructions for Students & Faculty Members

If you are new to the service, please follow the instructions below.

Students

1. Before logging into Turnitin, be sure to get the Class ID and Enrollment Password from your Instructor.
2. Choose 'Student' in the Login form (above). Key in your NUS Email account User ID and password. Click the 'Enter Turnitin' button.
3. After logging in to Turnitin, click the link to Enroll in a Class with the Class ID and Enrollment Password provided by your Instructor.
4. On entering the Class homepage, click the relevant assignment folder to open it. Submit your document by following the instructions provided by Turnitin.
5. You can view the Originality Report, once it is ready, if your Instructor has enabled this option. If the Similarity Index % bar is grayed out, it means that the Report has not been generated.
   * In some cases, it can take a few hours for the processing of your submission.

Faculty

1. Choose 'Faculty Member' in the Login form (above). Key in your NUS Email account User ID and password. Click the 'Enter Turnitin' button.
2. Once you login to Turnitin, you need to create a Class. Note down the Class ID (a number generated by Turnitin) and the Enrollment Password that you entered for this Class.
3. Create an Assignment folder within the Class. Your students will need to upload their submissions into this folder. Set the opening and closing dates along with other options as required.
4. Distribute the Class ID and Enrollment Password to your students. Also instruct them to upload their documents to the relevant folder within the Class.
5. Inform your students to login to their Turnitin account via this page ( http://cit.nus.edu.sg/plagiarism-prevention/) by using their NUS Email account particulars.

To view the Originality Reports of the submissions:

1. Click on the Assignment title link.
2. Click on the Similarity Index % bar to open the Report for any submission.
3. If you wish to exclude any of the sources from the Report, click on the x icon next to the listing.

 

Plagiarism Prevention Resources

1. Recommended Usage Guidelines in NUS - Centre for Instructional Technology, NUS
2. Academic Culture - NUS
3. Plagiarism and How You Can Avoid It - Centre for Development of Teaching and Learning, NUS
4. Plagiarism | Breeze presentation - Centre for English Language Communication
5. Plagiarism FAQ - NUS Business School
6. Preventing Plagiarism - School of Computing, NUS
7. Academic Integrity & Plagiarism Seminar (video) - Dr. John Barrie, President/CEO of iParadigms; 5 November 2003, NUS
8. Creating Assignments to Avoid Plagiarism - Mid | Low Bandwidth (video) - California State Polytechnic University
9. Citing online sources - Bedford/St. Martin's
10. Avoiding Plagiarism [pdf] - University of California, Davis