Reviewing Oxford’s plagiarism awareness tools

Complete the staff survey and have a chance to win an Amazon voucher! All staff are invited to complete a survey on the plagiarism screening and awareness tools Turnitin and iThenticate, whether or not you have a teaching role or … Continue reading

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Tunitin Usage Growth Over the Last five years

Our account manager at Turnitin has just sent an interesting graph which show the growth in use of Turnitin at Oxford over the last five years. Another interesting chart shows the growth in active students over the last 5 academic years. … Continue reading

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Turnitin Feedback Studio – formative feedback

In WebLearn In your WebLearn site, create an assignment using the Assignments tool, and select the Turnitin integration (See our step-by-step guide). When students submit their assignment in WebLearn, Turnitin will generate an Originality Report which is returned into the WebLearn tool, for … Continue reading

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Turnitin User Group meeting: 23 March 2017

Date: Thursday 23 March Time: 14:00 to 16:00 including refreshments Venue: IT Services, 13 Banbury Road OX2 6NN Booking is required We are delighted that our account manager at TurnitinUK (Jamie Whitehead) will join us at next week’s meeting of … Continue reading

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The government plan to crack down on essay writing services

There’s an interesting article in the Guardian about the government’s response to a QAA-authored report about plagiarism. See: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/feb/21/plan-to-crack-down-on-websites-selling-essays-to-students-announced

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Turnitin upgrades: clarification

This post provides additional information to our previous post: New version of Turnitin: Feedback Studio New version of Turnitin called Feedback Studio What? The new version of Turnitin (called Feedback Studio) is simply a new ‘look’ that has been released … Continue reading

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New version of Turnitin: Feedback Studio

Turnitin has released a major product upgrade that will soon be available at Oxford University. The new version of the service, called Turnitin Feedback Studio, offers all the functionalities of Turnitin, but with a simplified, more intuitive interface designed for … Continue reading

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Oxford Turnitin User Group MT2016

The Oxford Turnitin User Group meeting took place on 8 December 2016. Philippa O’Connor (Deputy Director, Education Policy Support) informed the group about the University’s new plagiarism strategy. She also talked through the resulting changes to procedures for dealing with poor … Continue reading

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Oxford Turnitin User Group: 8 Dec 2016, 14:00

Please join us at the next meeting of the Turnitin User Group: Date: Thursday 8 December 2016 Time: 2:00 – 3:30 pm, followed by refreshments Venue: IT Services, 13 Banbury Road Book now to secure your place. Our guest speaker … Continue reading

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No new date yet for Turnitin switchover

UPDATE: 12 January 2017 Turnitin has advised that work on the new integration has been postponed due to staff changes and other constraints in both Turnitin and the Canadian university that is leading the work. Oxford staff need take no … Continue reading

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