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New Turnitin Guides site
In mid July 2024, Turnitin’s help guidance will be moving to a new platform with improved organization, clarified content, better search functionality, and integration with Turnitin’s Customer Support Help Center. Turnitin users will access the improved help guidance at guides.turnitin.com. … Continue reading
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Message from Turnitin about the recent takeover
As you may have read on several media platforms over the past few weeks, Turnitin is joining the Advance family of companies! We’re getting in touch to briefly explain what this means for you, and how we plan to move … Continue reading
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Turnitin new add-on: Authorship Investigate
Recent articles (see below) have highlighted growing concern about students purchasing made-to-order essays and assignments from so-called ‘essay mills’ or ‘essay writing services’ and how universities need to raise awareness about the practice and the risks involved. The practice is known as … Continue reading
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Turnitin will be unavailable on Saturday Jan 5th 2019 from 16:00 – 00:00
Turnitin will be unavailable between 4pm and 12am on Saturday 5th January. All submissions made through WebLearn during this period will be queued and processed once the maintenance is complete. It will not be possible to create a new assignment … Continue reading
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Planned maintenance, Turnitin, TurnitinUK, iThenticate, WriteCheck and Integrations -Saturday November 5
We have just received this announcement from TurnItIn As a reminder, next Saturday November 5, the following services will be unavailable from 1pm – 6pm GMTdue to necessary scheduled maintenance: Turnitin (including mobile) TurnitinUK iThenticate WriteCheck Integrations This maintenance will … Continue reading
New TurnItIn URL
Turnitin now has a new URL turnitinuk.com. The old URL will no longer work; however, all existing assignments are available via the new URL. This change took place on 1st January 2016. WebLearn has been updated to use this new URL … Continue reading
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The Turnitin newly released teaching tools – share rubrics and lesson plans
Recently Turnitin released ‘Teaching Tools’ which allow you to view and adapt public rubrics (assessment criteria) in different subjects to suit the disciplines that you teach. The teaching tools section also has a collection of lesson plans developed by instructors … Continue reading
Turnitin new features released
In March 2014 Turnitin released a number of new features: Class Tagging : allows Turnitin to compile useful data about classes that will be used for Turnitin analytics in the future Import Rubrics from Excel into GradeMark View Roadmap and Release … Continue reading
The impact of plagiarism prevention and online grading in Higher Education
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
Wikipedia in the classroom
Note: this blog post is adapted from Turnitin First Draft – February edition: http://pages.turnitin.com/firstdraft_0214.html. Two recent webcasts discussed the role that Wikipedia can play in education from two different perspectives. “The Future of Wikipedia in Education,” Jake Orlowitz asked this … Continue reading