This report can be a helpful guide to you – it might highlight a quote you have used without referencing or a paragraph where you have borrowed heavily from a source without citing it appropriately.
When you do this, Turnitin checks your work against a large database of sources (textbooks, websites, other essays) to assess how similar your work is to information already written by others.įrom this information, Turnitin will produce what is known as an ‘originality report’ with a similarity index. You might be asked to submit an assessment through Turnitin. Turnitin is software the University uses to help you develop good academic practice. Instructions on how to enable and use Quick Submit will be sent to you when your instructor account has been created.You may have heard about Turnitin from your lecturers or other students. It may sometimes be necessary to use Turnitin directly via the supplier’s website (): an administrator may have received a number of student papers that need to be screened, or an exam (or attachments) may have been downloaded from Inspera. Please request a Turnitin instructor account (if you don’t have one already), providing details of why you require such an account.
Resources about using the full version of Turnitin via Canvas:.It is important that exam boards should agree a consistent approach to reviewing similarity reports whether marking in Inspera or offline. Summative use: Turnitin Similarity (a scaled-down version of Turnitin) is integrated with the Inspera e-assessment platform for screening examinations and summative coursework.It is advisable to work with students to interpret their Turnitin similarity reports in order to support them in improving their academic writing and referencing skills. Students submit their essay to Canvas, and tutors and supervisors can provide feedback using the Canvas SpeedGrader. Formative use: Turnitin is integrated with the Canvas Assignments tool to screen formative essays.We share useful and interesting news via the Turnitin blog. Academic judgement is required when interpreting the resulting similarity report – there may be an acceptable explanation for high (or low) levels of matching text identified by the software. The Turnitin plagiarism screening service identifies pieces of text in students' work that match with existing electronic texts stored in numerous rapidly-expanding repositories and databases.
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