Turnitin

Your academics may enable Turnitin for LMS assignments and quizzes in the LMS. 

As such you must not submit assessments through the Turnitin web portal. All assessments requiring Turnitin must be submitted directly within your subject in the LMS. Failure to submit through the correct platform could result in your assessment not being properly processed or causing issues with plagiarism detection.

Accessing the Turnitin web portal should only be used for the purpose of viewing past Turnitin submissions and not for submitting assessments. Please contact your academic if you have any questions regarding the submission of your assessments.

What is Turnitin?

Turnitin is a web-based text-matching software system which can be used to assist in helping you learn how to properly acknowledge quotations.  Using Turnitin is part of our educational approach to minimise plagiarism and ensure standards of academic honesty in assessable work

Accepted file types

You can submit files in the following format to Turnitin:

• MS Word (.doc and .docx)
• WordPerfect (.wpd)
• Portable Document Format (text based) (.pdf)
• HTML (.html)
• Rich Text (.rtf) and Plain Text (.txt)

Viewing your Turnitin submissions

You can view your submissions in Turnitin by accessing your assessments tasks through the LMS. Alternatively, you can login to your Turnitin account directly.

Please note: Do not submit any assignments to Turnitin directly

Steps to log into Turnitin directly

Please note: You will not be able to login to Turnitin directly unless you have submitted at least one assignment on the LMS.

• Navigate to the Turnitin login page.
• If you haven't logged into Turnitin before you will need to reset the password. This is because your Turnitin account is separate from your La Trobe student account. You can reset the password using your student email address (eg. 12345678@students.latrobe.edu.au) and family name.
• The password reset email can take up to 15 minutes to arrive in your student email inbox.
• After resetting your password, you can login to Turnitin using your student email address and new password.

Please note: It is recommended before graduating La Trobe to update your Turnitin account email address, so you can still access this after your La Trobe account closes. You can do this by logging into Turnitin, clicking 'User info' in the Toolbar and updating the email address.

Additional information and resources

The official Turnitin website can provide you with a variety of information about how Turnitin works. Here are some links to some articles which might prove helpful to you:

• navigating the similarity report
• understanding your similarity score
• downloading' your similarity report.