According to its own website (http://www.turnitin.com), Turnitin:
- began in 1996
- was the world's 1st, and is the leading internet-based originality checking &
plagiarism detection service
- is used by more than 6,500 schools & universities
- helps improve the academic integrity of written work


HOW does Turnitin work?

• Moodle (free online course management system for staff & students)

• Teachers create an electronic "Assignment" area in Moodle (image of tools at right)
- Students may submit individual electronic files of papers
- Teachers may submit/upload individual student papers
- Teachers may submit/upload electronic files in "batch" uploads
• Assignment OPTIONS may be set for: - the time of generating the "Originality Report"
  - allowing re-submission of papers until due date
  - allowing students to view the"Originality Reports"
• The “Originality Report”
Provides: . - a % "view"
  - "high-low" rainbow spectrum
Blue = good
Green = acceptable
Yellow = check/revise!
Orange & Red = a concern! 


* Students could revise & re-submit papers with questionable authenticity.
 

• Teacher's view:
Additional COLOR-CODED references also identify the sources from which the
phrases/sentences/paragraphs within any given paper were taken.


These references match/identify the source: .- website URL
  . - another student’s paper









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"Turnitin plays an extremely important role in helping our students understand intellectual honesty...
For our students, being able to see a highlighted line that is similar or exact to another document
gives us that ‘teachable moment’..." - TRIO Training, University of Washington