Turnitin

Plagiarism Prevention Software

     For those of you who are not familiar with the Turnitin program, it is a 24/7 plagiarism detection site that is used to ensure that a students' submitted essay is their ORIGINAL work. It allows students to see their "unoriginal" pieces of work, revise their essay, and resubmit it until they are satisfied that their work is as original as possible.

 

http://turnitin.com/en_us/features/originalitycheck

Turnitin works by using percentages. It matches the student's submitted work to the Turnitin database and creates a percentage of the amount of unoriginal/plagiarized work compared to the whole work.

 

 

 

           The Turnitin database claims to be one of the largest online detections sites with more than 24,000,000,000 web pages, 300,000,000 student papers, and millions more articles. It also allows students to review each other's work, and it provides 5 different types of feedback, including:

1. Originality Check
2. QuickMark Sets
3. Voice Comments
4. Rubrics
5. General Comments

 

        I have used Turnitin several times, and it has always been helpful. It ensures that you do not plagiarize (even by accident). Of course, there are always exceptions that it does not catch, such as using direct quotations or citing. It will sometimes consider those things as plagiarism even though you may have correctly given credit to the true author.

 

All in all, it is a great program! Consider downloading it here!

 

Instructor Training on How to Create a Turnitin Account is below!

 

AND... Project correlates with NETS·T standard #3 & 4 because it models the use of emerging digital tools and advocates ethical use of digital information and technology!