Turnitin at Oxford

Fostering a culture of honesty and academic integrity Six webinars, six speakers, six weeks: Join these sessions offered by the UK support team, Plagiarism Advice. Details are provided at http://plagiarismadvice.org/webinars

The IT Services Turnitin Service Level Description was updated today. The following changes were made: Updated all mention of OUCS to IT Services, and relevant links accordingly Updated Section 2.6 – Added links for more information on using the separate … Continue reading →

The latest Turnitin Academy Newsletter provides information on the following: (follow the link for more information and to register for the free webinars) Closing the gap – What students say about instructor feedback. Key findings from the survey include: Despite … Continue reading →

The University’s Turnitin licence allows only the work of registered Oxford students to be screened for text matching or possible instances of plagiarism. Academic staff and researchers need to use a separate product called iThenticate, run by the same company … Continue reading →

This article appears in the latest issue of the journal Research in Learning Technology: “Is it cheating – or learning the craft of writing? Using Turnitin to help students avoid plagiarism” by Lynne Graham-Matheson and Simon Starr. The article is … Continue reading →

If a student submits an essay/assignment that is to go through Turnitin (either via WebLearn or TurnitinUK direct), tracked changes should not be left on. The reason is that Turnitin will match everything in the deleted and formatted text, thus falsely … Continue reading →

PeerMark is part of the Turnitin suite of software and provides a platform for students to evaluate each other’s work. Some of the features of PeerMark include: When setting up a PeerMark assignment, options can be selected to allocate students … Continue reading →

GradeMark is part of the Turnitin suite of software and provides an electronic marking and commenting facility including the possibility of audio feedback to students. After comments are posted by the tutor, students can access GradeMark to review them and … Continue reading →

The latest Turnitin newsletter  provides details of free online webcasts during Plagiarism Education Week. The topics on each weekday are respectively: Causes of plagiarism, Types of plagiarism, Responses to plagiarism, Approaches to plagiarism, Originality and creativity. The week includes a … Continue reading →

For the purpose of anonymous submission of coursework, not only should students exclude their name and other identifying details from the content of the document (such as title page, footer etc.), they should also remove identifying metadata from the file … Continue reading →