Turnitin maintenance Sat 1 March 2014

Posted on February 28, 2014 by Jill Fresen

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 →

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Wikipedia in the classroom

Posted on February 26, 2014 by Fawei Geng

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 →

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The 6th International Integrity & Plagiarism Conference 2014

Posted on February 26, 2014 by Fawei Geng

Note: the information is provided by Turnitin: http://pages.turnitin.com/firstdraft_0114.html The conference takes place 16-18th June 2014 at the Sage Gateshead UK. It will build on the conference’s reputation as a forum for best practice, bringing together global expertise and experience. Conference … Continue reading →

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iParadigms UK User Group meeting 12 Feb 2014

Posted on February 20, 2014 by Jill Fresen

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 →

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