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Equitable Evaluation & Excellent Expectation-Setting: Create & Customize Your Turnitin Rubrics
Rubrics are an incredibly powerful tool to bring different people into alignment. Institutions at the department, school, and district level can use them to facilitate discussion and alignment…
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The Importance of Teacher Self Care
Anyone who’s ever taken a flight knows the phrase: “Secure your own oxygen mask first before assisting children,” yet many teachers focus on social-emotional learning for our students but not for…
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Writing to Learn: Simple Strategies to Boost STEM Thinking
A long-debated topic in schools is who is responsible for teaching writing to students. Invariably, that task primarily falls on the shoulders of English teachers,…
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Powering the Feedback Cycle with Turnitin Feedback Studio for Middle School and High School
Students grow and succeed when they get high quality feedback from their teachers. Turnitin Feedback Studio is built to power and accelerate that process.…
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What Is Real? Teaching Students How to Evaluate the Credibility of Sources
With the rise of fake news and internet sites, information and media literacy is an essential skill for the twenty-first century learner. We explore the importance of teaching source credibility…
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Using Peermark with academic English students
I'm working on an action research project on the use of Turnitin's peermark with academic English students. So far I've had some success designing and deploying peermark assignments to students'…
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Fostering Original Thinking in High Schoolers Through Scientific Inquiry
How can you inspire high school students to look beyond what is known and to push the boundaries of what is possible? Join 2019 Turnitin Global Innovation Award Winner Rachna Nath for an exploration…
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Teacher Appreciation Week 2021
This week is Teacher Appreciation Week in North America. We'd like to extend our appreciation to all educators around the world to honor their tenacity, creativity and resilience over the last year.…
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Webinar: Coaching Conversations — Making the most of every teachable moment
From offering formative feedback and suggesting revision ideas, to addressing potential plagiarism and citation concerns--in-person and online--these coaching conversations are key to making the…
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Academic Honesty Policy
Folks, I'm looking to formalize and/or update our existing policies and procedures and was wondering if anyone had a specific Academic Honesty Policy that they would be prepared to share with me?…
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TII Rubric Templates/Collection?
Does TurnItIn have a collection of rubric templates?
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Webinar: Mastery-based Teaching Moves and Grading Strategies for Remote Learning
As educators embark on teaching remotely across the US, big questions are surfacing about equity, how to develop responsive learning communities online, and how to assess learning with accuracy.…
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Webinar: The 5 Key Shifts of Mastery Based Learning
Following our exploration of one school's journey to mastery-based learning, this session addresses how any institution can start to transform to a more student centered, culturally responsive,…
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Webinar: The Mastery Collaborative Approach — Youth centered, culturally responsive-sustaining, and competency-based
Join us to find out how a community of 70+ public K-12 schools across the 5 boroughs of New York City is transforming learning for the students they serve.…
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The Harvard College Honor Code
At Harvard, students and faculty are part of a community of learners who share a commitment to the values of trust, respect, honesty, responsibility, and fairness.…
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Building the Team: Elevating Excellence in High School Robotics
Originality is at the heart of innovation and few things spur innovation like a good competitive challenge. Nancy McIntyre of the Robotics Education & Competition Foundation joined us to share how…
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Allowing for Revisions While Still Moving Forward
Now, more than ever, I require students to revise and resubmit work. I think it is a very beneficial exercise for the student, but I realize it can be very time consuming for the teacher.…
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Thank You, Class of 2020!
How has 2020 been for you? No, really, we want to know… As this tumultuous year draws to an end, we’d like to say an enormous ‘thank you’ to all of you who have made a difference to student learning…
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Challenges & Opportunities for Learning in HE
I'm sure the lives of everyone in our global community have been immeasurably changed in the past few weeks by the spread of Coronavirus. As places of learning at all levels scramble to deliver…
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Auto-calculation of Rubrics
Hi, I am looking to find out how institutions use the auto calculation function on the Standard Rubrics. We are trying to make the marking process consistent and manage staff time effectively by…
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Turnitin Paper View Request - Not Very Useful?
When I request to view a paper against which one of my students has evidently either copied or reused material, the system returns an anonymous copy. Therefore, I see the entire text,…
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Academic Integrity day/week events: share ideas
Hi everyone, This year, I'm working with some colleagues to organise an inaugural ‘Academic Integrity Week’ at Trinity College, something we’re hoping will become an annual event in the life of the…
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How to Motivate Originality with Student Book Choice
When we’re teaching writing, it’s important to make reading accessible and intersectional with student interests. In this blog, we’ll examine how and why reading lists are formed throughout a…
Share innovative teaching and learning practices. Strategies for engaging students and providing meaningful feedback.