"Turnitin Week" at the Schulz Digital Lab

Workshops on “How to Create Turnitin Assignments” are Feb. 2 through 6, from noon to 1 p.m. in the Digital Lab, located in Schulz 2016C. Drop by for hands-on, quick instructions on using Turnitin, with or without WebCT. For more information, contact Martha Ezell, at martha.ezell@sonoma.edu

Five Things IT Thinks You Should Know About Turnitin

1. Turnitin was created in 1996 by a group of professors from the University of California Berkeley who were concerned with the rise of Internet plagiarism.

2. Turnitin  allows instructors to compare student papers against a database composed of millions of articles, books, Internet sites, and previously submitted student papers.

3. Turnitin.com can be used as a plagiarism deterrent, but can also be used as an educational tool to teach students how to work with sources and to improve paraphrasing and quoting skills.

4. All WebCT classes have the ability to create Turnitin assignments easily by linking seamlessly with the Turnitin website.

5. Even for those not using WebCT, an SSU faculty account allows the creation of Turnitin assignments, or to use to check a single paper.

TRAINING

Making Accessible Word Documents

Learn how to create documents that are accessible to people who use  assistive technology. This hands-on workshop will cover:

Accessible Technology • What is an accessible Word document?
  • Creating meaningful structure
  • Accessible tables
  • Alternative text for images
  • Modifying styles
  • Good linking practices
  • What NOT to do

Faculty, staff, students and student assistants are welcome. Anyone who creates Microsoft Word documents that are distributed electronically to the SSU community should attend. This training is presented by Barbara Moore (IT) and Christine Hayes (Library). 

To sign up, go to the IT Training page at http://www.sonoma.edu/it/training.shtml, and click "Workshop Registration" (Seawolf ID required).  For more information, contact Barbara Moore at barbara.moore@sonoma.edu.

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