HOW TO SUBMIT AN ASSIGNMENT TO TURNITIN

HOW TO SUBMIT AN ASSIGNMENT TO TURNITIN
In most cases where Turnitin is used at Queen Mary, staff set up a submission inbox
to which students upload their own assignments. Uploading can be done at any
time and from any computer, at home or on campus.
How to submit your assignment
Firstly, you should check the instructions that you
have been given by your lecturer or department.
This will include a link or reference to your Turnitin
assignment. You will normally be submitting work
via a link within Queen Mary’s online learning
environment, however you may be asked to use the
Turnitin website directly at www.submit.ac.uk.
You will need to know which of these to use before
you upload your work, and if you are using www.
submit.ac.uk you will also need a class id and class
enrolment password to access your assignment. We
will give instructions here for submitting your work to
www.submit.ac.uk. The process for submitting within
your online learning system will be very similar.
Step 1
Step 4
Open up your web browser and go to
www.submit.ac.uk. Click on Create account to
register your details within Turnitin, entering the
class id and class enrolment password you have
been given, and then providing your name, email
address and a personal password for your
account. Click on Create Profile to register.
You will nearly always submit your work by uploading
a file, so leave the first option as it is. Enter a title for
your submission, then Browse to find the file on your
computer, and Upload to send the file to Turnitin.
Step 2
You will see the following screen, showing the list of
classes you have access to. Click on the name of the
class, in this case Marketing 1000 to enter the class.
Step 3
Step 5
You will see the details for your particular assignment,
as below:
You then preview the paper. Only the text is shown,
any formatting and images, graphs etc will not be
displayed. Check that this is the correct paper for this
assignment, and then click Submit.
Step 6
Review the details and check this is the correct
assignment. When you are ready to submit your work,
click on Submit.
You will receive a digital receipt, shown on screen
and also sent to you by email. That completes the
submission process and you can now log out of
Turnitin.
Things you should know
• Once you have successfully submitted an
assignment to Turnitin, you will receive a digital
receipt sent to you by email. Ensure you keep the
digital receipt in a safe place as you may be asked
to provide it in case there is any problem with your
submission or a technical failure.
• Uploading your assignment to Turnitin will be a
very fast process when you are using a computer
on the College campus, taking no more than a few
seconds in most cases. However, typical home
broadband connections have much slower upload
speeds, so document submission may take longer.
A very large document, with lots of images or
diagrams, might take up to ten minutes to upload.
• Turnitin can accept Microsoft Word, WordPerfect,
RTF, plain text and PDF files. The maximum file size
you can upload is 20 Megabytes.
• If your lecturer allows you to see your Turnitin similarity
index and originality reports, you can find them by
logging into Turnitin, finding your assignment, and
clicking on Show details. You will see the similarity
index, expressed as a percentage of your work that
matches other sources, and you can click on this to
view the originality report.
WHAT
OUR
STUDENTS
SAY
“Turnitin is very easy to use, you can just upload the file,
view it before you submit, press a button and it’s been
sent - easy!”
Faith McAllister
English Language and Linguistics student
Queen Mary, University of London
Further information
Contact details
The E-Learning Unit
The Learning Institute
Francis Bancroft Building
Queen Mary University of London
London, E1 4NS
E: elu-support@qmul.ac.uk
www.learninginstitute.qmul.ac.uk/
elearning
About this guide
This document is one of a series of documents for
staff and students about the Turnitin plagiarism
prevention and detection system used at Queen Mary,
University of London.
You can see all the guides including videos at
www.learninginstitute.qmul.ac.uk/elearning/support/turnitin