Turnitin® Account Request

Overview

• Turnitin^® is an internet-based plagiarism-prevention service. Once set up by Instructors, students can submit papers to the website, which is checked against billions of webpages, works previously submitted to Turnitin, and a repository of journals, and other publications. This tool helps instructors engage students in the writing process by providing feedback that can both assess and help improve students' work.
• No download, registration, or login is needed if used with the integration inside D2L Brightspace Assignment folders.
• Faculty can request an account that is specific to Turnitin^® OR use the integration inside D2L Brightspace without needing to request an account.
• Faculty may contact the Academic Technology Support (ATS) to create an account at Turnitin.com that will allow them to manually upload and check a single assignment/paper outside of the D2L Brightspace environment. Note that an instructor will need to request a machine-readable copy of the assignment from their student to do so; a paper that is simply scanned will not be readable by Turnitin^®.
• Please note: Students cannot use Turnitin on their own faculty must create either an integrated assignment submission folder for students to test their scores in or create an assignment in Turnitin for them to test their scores. Students do not have the ability to check their similarity score on their own.

Before submitting this Request

If you have never set up an assignment in D2L with the Turnitin integration, proceed to the Request Service button, you will need a new account.

If you have previously set up D2L Assignments to include Turnitin, you have an existing account and simply need to set up your password.

1. Please go to https://www.turnitin.com
2. In the upper right corner, select Login.
3. On the login page, there is a line that says Forgotten your password? Click here. Select that "click here."
4. Follow the prompts using your first.lastname@metrostate.edu email address and you will be able to reset your password.
5. You can then return and login.

Additional Resources

D2L Brightspace:

• D2L Assignment Creation / Setup
• D2L Brightspace Assignment/Turnitin^® Integration

Library Resources:

• Academic Integrity

Metropolitan State University’s Academic Integrity policy and procedure

• Policy and procedure can be found at metrostate.edu/academic-integrity

Turnitin^®:

• Quick Start

Student Resources:

• LibGuides: Cite Sources Guide
• Writing Center and Tutors