Free Training Sessions from iParadigms

iParadigms, the company which provides the Turnitin service, is offering free webinar training sessions on the basics of Turnitin and plagiarism topics.

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Where students turn for sources

Turnitin US have produced an infographic, based on a white paper which takes a look into the web sources and writing practices of secondary and higher education students in the United States. The full white paper, Plagiarism and the Web: … Continue reading

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SIPA: Supporting institutional practice in feedback and assessment

The WebLearn team is investigating, promoting and supporting the use of the external Turnitin plagiarism detection and prevention service and allied products GradeMark (online marking and annotations) and PeerMark (student peer marking and assessment). Turnitin is integrated into the WebLearn … Continue reading

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Seeking learning technologist for new SIPA post

Thank you to those Turnitin instructors who answered our survey and helped as to motivate the need for more resources to support the use of Turnitin at Oxford University. OUCS has secured funding for a post for a learning technologist … Continue reading

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Turnitin re:marks – Plagiarism and the Web

View the webpage FEATURED ARTICLES Plagiarism and the Web: Myths and Realities We recently conducted a study that examined which Internet sites students used in their written work. We classified 110 million content matches in 40 million student papers that … Continue reading

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More news from the Turnitin Academy – April 2011

The latest newsletter from the Turnitin Academy (21 April 2011) contains useful information on: – Meeting Education Standards – Online Peer Review Enhances Learning in any Discipline as well as many other useful links and articles.

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Turnitin Academy April 2011

The Turnitin Academy newsletter contains helpfulĀ information on: * The Basics: Viewing Originality Reports * Going beyond the basics * Peer Review across the curriculum with PeerMark * Beyond Awkward: Offering mearning feedback with GradeMark

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Preventing student papers from being added to the Turnitin database

When using the Assignments tool in WebLearn, the default behaviour is that student papers do get added to the Turnitin database; however, they are used only for comparison purposes and are not released or shown to any other users, apart … Continue reading

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Excluding quoted material and using GradeMark

TURNITIN ACADEMY MARCH 2011 ************************************************** FEATURED ARTICLES Excluding Quotes in Originality Reports The exclude quotes feature in Originality Reports reduces the noise in similarity matches so instructors can better evaluate the level of originality in assignments. Many instructors, however, choose … Continue reading

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Turnitin Newsletter March 2011

************************************************** FEATURED ARTICLES 7 Tips to Encourage Original Work How can you design assignments that are plagiarism-proof? Here are 7 tips on developing strategies to encourage original student work: 1. Develop an awareness of student study practices 2. Discuss essay … Continue reading

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