Below is a step-by-step guide to utilizing the Turnitin Draft Coach tool before you submit your assignments in Bright Space. 

• Navigate to the home page of your Bright Space.

• Click “mySNHU” in the middle of the tool bar, immediately above the “Welcome”.

   

• Sign into your "mySNHU" account by selecting one of the options shown in the screenshot above.

   

• At the "mySNHU" homepage, navigate to your Webmail by clicking on the Webmail icon. Icons are toward the top right-hand side of the screen, with the Webmail icon on the left.

   

• Once you have navigated to your SNHU email, click on the waffle icon in the top left corner.

   

• Click on the Word icon from this menu.

   

• Once Word opens, either upload your paper or create a blank document to start a new paper.

• Click the Turnitin button in the top ribbon.
• Click the Draft Coach button in the top left.

• This will open the draft coach on the left side of the screen (you may need to log into your SNHU account again).
• Click the Similarity Check option

• Click on the Run Similarity Check.

   

• Click on the Confirm button at the bottom of the page.

• Please note you will only be able to run (3) similarity checks on each paper, for more you will need to upload or start a new Word document.

   

• Once completed, the Turnitin Draft Coach will show your overall similarity score.
• You can also click on View Full Report tab at the bottom of the screen to see if you are missing citations, quotations, etc.

• The image above is an example of the Full Report feature of the Turnitin Draft Coach.