WebLearn and Turnitin information sessions for staff

Are you planning staff induction or preparation sessions for the new academic year? You are? Then why not consider including a WebLearn or Turnitin information session in your schedule. The central WebLearn team is able to offer free information or … Continue reading

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Providing supportive student feedback – lunch time talk on 9 May and pilot project

Tutors and Supervisors: How do you mark student essays and other written work? Do you write comments on the hard copy essay, return it to the student and then have no copy of your feedback to them? Do you find … Continue reading

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WebLearn and Turnitin – meetings and courses

WebLearn User Group Meeting: Wednesday 21 March 2012, 14:00-16:00 at OUCS (followed by tea and cake) At the next meeting of the WebLearn User Group users from Medical Sciences, the Said Business School and the Department of Continuing Education will … Continue reading

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Supporting Institutional Practice for feedback and Assessment (SIPA) Project

The WebLearn team is investigating, promoting and supporting the use of the external Turnitin plagiarism detection and prevention service and allied products GradeMark (online marking and annotations) and PeerMark (student peer marking and assessment). Turnitin is integrated into the WebLearn … Continue reading

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Advice for universities on student plagiarism (JISC)

News release: 31 March 2011 Advice for universities on student plagiarism The Academic Integrity Service (AIS), managed by the Higher Education Academy (HEA) with JISC, has today published a report to enable higher education institutions to review and develop their … Continue reading

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Turnitin Newsletter – November 2010

Student Access to Originality Reports Martin King of Royal Holloway University of London conducted an investigation into the use of Turnitin in Higher Education institutions in the UK related to student access to Turnitin. The survey indicated: Nearly 60% of … Continue reading

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A Report Investigating the Effectiveness of the Turnitin Plagiarism Detection Service

A report has recently been released about the use of Turnitin in terms of its effectiveness. The White Paper “The Effectiveness of Turnitin and WriteCycle” (White Paper from turnitin.com, 2009) reports on the use of Turnitin worldwide in helping to … Continue reading

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Student access to Turnitin reports

An investigation into the use of Turnitin in UK HE institutions, focusing upon student access to the service has just been released. Martin King, Senior Learning & Technology Officer, Royal Holloway College, University of London, conducted a study on Turnitin … Continue reading

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Using Turnitin for plagiarism detection and prevention

Turnitin is an online text-matching system that can be used to help identify potential plagiarism in electronically submitted student work. It can also be used formatively, for tutors to help students develop their academic writing and citation skills. Turntin highlights … Continue reading

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