Student access to Turnitin reports

Posted on November 9, 2010 by Adam Marshall

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

Posted on October 22, 2010 by Adam Marshall

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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WebLearn team member wins a competition!

Posted on October 21, 2010 by Adam Marshall

At the nLearning Plagiarism conference in Newcastle in June,  a competition was held for attendees to write for slogans warning students against plagiarism. WebLearn team member Dr Jill Fresen submitted 3 slogans and the first one was chosen as a … Continue reading →

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New TurnItIn newsletter

Posted on October 21, 2010 by Adam Marshall

There is a brand new TurnItIn newsletter. Topics covered: Reducing the Prevalence of Cheating In The News Upcoming Events Upcoming Webinars and Training Scheduled Maintenance Links Read the newsletter

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TurnItIn2 – overview of changes

Posted on September 22, 2010 by Adam Marshall

This is from the TurnItIn newsletter and refers to the submit.ac.uk service. Turnitin now has a new interface and a number of new features. For many it has been a welcome change, and for others there may be a learning … Continue reading →

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Possible Turnitin Outage Sept 4-5

Posted on August 5, 2010 by Adam Marshall

Just in from iParadigm There will be a special maintenance window for the Turnitin service on September 4th, 2010 in conjunction with our launch of Turnitin2. Schedule Confirmed Maintenance Start Date: Saturday, Sept. 4 at 17:00 GMT Projected Maintenance End … Continue reading →

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Times Higher article about a “Plagiarism tariff”

Posted on July 20, 2010 by Adam Marshall

There’s an interesting article in the Times Higher (17 June 2010) which proposes a method of ‘scoring’ plagiarism. The article provides three examples of plagiarism, how these offences are scored, and how a decision on censure is reached. As the … Continue reading →

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A great practical example of using WebLearn to enhance teaching

Posted on May 25, 2010 by Adam Marshall

Dr Scot Peterson, a lecturer in Politics, just gave an excellent and informative talk as part of the OUCS “make:” lunchtime sessions. Scot also teaches at Reading University where he has to use the Blackboard VLE. My ears pricked up … Continue reading →

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