Turnitin at Oxford

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

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 →

[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 →

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 →

Message from iParadigms, the Turnitin vendors: Turnitin and Turnitin UK services may be intermittently unavailable during a scheduled maintenance period on Saturday, March 1, 2014 from 7-11AM U.S. Pacific Time (15:00 – 19:00 GMT). Instructors are encouraged to modify assignment … Continue reading →

Aston University, Birmingham, 12 February 2014 The CEO Chris Caren apologised unreservedly for the outage which occurred during December 2013. He explained that it was an unacceptable incident, and was due to human error – an undersized database machine had … Continue reading →

This biennial event will take place in Newcastle-upon-Tyne from 16 to 18 June 2014. The keynote speakers are: Dan Ariely – Professor of Psychology and Behavioural Economics at Duke University Adrian Slater – Solicitor and Head of Legal Services at … Continue reading →

In early January Turnitin will be making two small changes that may impact workflow for instructors and students. First, the sign in fields will be removed from the top of the submit.ac.uk website, and replaced with a Log In button. … Continue reading →

Please see the announcement below from TurnitinUSA about scheduled Turnitin maintenance time on Saturday 21 December. Being out of term time and close to Christmas, it should hopefully not affect use of Turnitin at Oxford University. “Turnitin service may be intermittently … Continue reading →

Turnitin now accepts PowerPoint files, so that student presentations can be checked for similarity and tutors can provide feedback and comments using GradeMark. See the Turnitin Academy newsletter: Submit & Evaluate Powerpoint. The newsletter also proposes a workflow for efficiently evaluating … Continue reading →