eLP - Digital Drop Box
Electronic submission of students assignments reduces the administrative delay in marking your work. This video show how to submit an assignment using the digital drop box on the e Learning Portal (Blackboard).
eLP - Turnitin
Northumbria University uses turnitin to check the originality of student's work. This video shows how to submit a turnitin assignment using the eLearning Portal (Blackboard)
Understanding Turnitin Output (Quick)
Turnitin is widely used by Schools and Universities to check that work that a student submits was written by that person. It does this by comparing submitted text to sources on the Internet and in a large database of articles.
This video shows how to look at the report produced by Turnitin and how to correctly use and reference text written by someone else.
This is the short version (2.5 mins, 4Mb). The longer version below (8.5min 18Mb) is more detailed.
Detailed Turnitin Output
This video explains what to do when turnitin shows you have used someone else's writing in your essay or term paper. Examples of 'citation' and 'references' are shown that will give you credit for your background reading.
Creating a Turnitin Assignment (staff)
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