Interpreting Originality Reports from Turnitin

Posted on March 28, 2014 by Jill Fresen

Interpreting the originality reports that are generated from Turnitin is an art, and requires some insight into the subject matter, the nature of the assessment task that was set, and the usual writing style and language skills of the student. There are … Continue reading →

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The impact of plagiarism prevention and online grading in Higher Education

Posted on March 10, 2014 by Fawei Geng

Note: the information is provided by Turnitin: http://pages.turnitin.com/academy_0214.html Turnitin released a report that examines Turnitin’s efficacy in higher education institutions in helping to reduce plagiarism in student writing, facilitate paperless submission of documents and allow instructors to provide feedback to … Continue reading →

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Turnitin supports text matching in 30 different languages

Posted on March 4, 2014 by Jill Fresen

The following information is provided on the Turnitin Help website: Papers can now be submitted to Turnitin in the following 30 languages: Chinese (simplified and traditional), Japanese, Thai, Korean, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian … Continue reading →

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New from Turnitin – submit from the Cloud and Dropbox

Posted on March 4, 2014 by Jill Fresen

News from Turnitin: “Cloud Submit allows users to submit files to Turnitin assignments from Google Drive™ and Dropbox—two of the most widely used document storage services.” Read more about it: http://pages.turnitin.com/1013-cloud-submit.html Watch a Demo Video: http://turnitin.com/en_us/features/whats-new#cloud-submit

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Turnitin Originality Reports not appearing in WebLearn

Posted on March 4, 2014 by Jill Fresen

Have you experienced the problem that students submit their assignments in WebLearn, but red alert messages appear and the originality reports are never returned in WebLearn? WebLearn is integrated with the external Turnitin service (http://submit.ac.uk). Classes and assignments are created … Continue reading →

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Turnitin User Group meeting Wed 26 March 2:00pm

Posted on March 4, 2014 by Jill Fresen

[Posted on Tuesday 25 March: Meeting cancelled due to other commitments by central authorities and therefore nothing new to report. Please see the separate posting providing feedback from the national Turnitin User Group meeting held in Birmingham on 12 February 2014] … Continue reading →

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Turnitin maintenance Saturday 15 March 2014

Posted on March 3, 2014 by Jill Fresen

Turnitin service may be intermittently unavailable during a scheduled maintenance period on Saturday, 15 March 2014, from 14:00 to 18:00 GMT. An announcement will appear for users within Turnitin in advance of when the system will be unavailable for this scheduled maintenance. This … Continue reading →

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