Turnitin file types and word processor compatibility

Turnitin file types and word processor compatibility

To submit a paper to Turnitin, your paper must meet their requirements.

Note:  The paper being submitted must contain more than 20 words, must be under 100MB (or approximately two million characters), must not exceed 800 pages in length, and must not contain spaces in between every letter (l i k e t h i s).

• Microsoft Word™ (.doc and .docx)

• Microsoft PowerPoint (.ppt, .pptx, .pps and .ppsx) (Text with visual effects is not supported. It is recommended that any effects such as shadows and 3D be removed prior to submitting to Turnitin).

• Corel WordPerfect®(.wpd)
• HTML (.html and .htm)
• Adobe PostScript® (.ps)
• Plain text (.txt)
• Rich Text Format (.rtf)
• Portable Document Format (PDF)  Recommended format (Must contain highlightable text not scanned images or forms)
• Hangul (.hwp)
• OpenOffice (.odt)
• Google Docs via Google Drive

NOTE: Other formats may be accepted by Turnitin but will not generate a report (e.g. Apple .pages documents)

Your document must be:

• less than 100 MB
• less than 800 pages
• More than 20 readable typed words
• PDFs must not be only scans (images) (must have also 20 readable words)

Turnitin do not support the following

Note that occasionally one of these file types may be accepted but will not generate an originality report or similarity score.

When setting up an assignment, lecturers should normally select the option NOT to accept "all file types" to avoid the possibility of students submitting the following file types and not getting an originality report.

NOTE: this is not an exhaustive list. Unless the file type is in the supported list above it will not be accepted.

1. Microsoft Works (.wps)
2. Apple Pages (.pages)
3. CAD files (e.g. .prt)
4. Microsoft Word 2007 macros-enabled (.docm) files (whatever macro is encoded in the file is stripped away when submitted to Turnitin)
5. Password protected files
6. .odt files created and downloaded from Google Docs online
7. .doc files created using OpenOffice as these are not a 100% Microsoft Word equivalent
8. zip or rar files
9. Audio or video files such as .mp3, .mp4, .mov, .wav
10. PDF files of images, or PDFs that do not contain selectable text (e.g. scanned documents)
11. Text with visual effects added
12. Spreadsheets created outside of Microsoft Excel (ie. .ods)

If a file format issue is occurring, please re-open the file in a word processor, and save the file again using the "save as" function and choose a different format from the file type pull down menu (try PDF).

If you are experiencing problems uploading the paper, please send an email to learning-technologies@nottingham.ac.uk  and attach your paper to it so that we can co-ordinate with Turnitin and find out what is going on at their end. Also, please let us know the word processor and version you are using to write the paper.