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What are word spinners and what do they have to do with academic integrity?
Earlier, we touched on new and emerging trends in academic misconduct ; it’s also important to take a closer look at each of these challenges and ways to mitigate their impact on student learning.…
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How to Enhance Authentic Assessment with Integrity
Roslyn Miller, Ph.D. and Amanda E. Major, Ed.D., CPLP, PMP are instructional designers at the University of Central Florida; their work and research focus on effective instruction and authentic…
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How to Foster Original Thinking and Revision with Draft Coach
As a psychology instructor teaching entirely virtual high school courses, I have had to find new and innovative ways to instruct, provide feedback, and connect with my students in a fully digital…
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Six Ways to Reshape Your Feedback and Increase Student Engagement
Earle Abrahamson, Course Leader and Senior Lecturer in Sports Therapy at the University of East London (UK), has been using Turnitin Feedback Studio to provide feedback to his students on their…
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Starting the Year: Transforming Assessment into Learning for Students and Educators
You’ve offered and completed student assessments. You’ve ensured a variety of assessments that test different components of learning and include a diverse range of learning styles.…
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What's Ahead for Turnitin in 2021
I’m eager to share Turnitin’s priorities for 2021, but before we look forward, I want to acknowledge the past year and its challenges. We’re in awe of the institutions and educators who worked…
- 2 mths ago
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Starting the Year: What Do You Need to Know About Assessment
Assessment is a critical intersection between teaching and learning , a junction at which educators understand what it is students have learned and where educators gain insights into teaching…
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Starting the Year: How to Establish a Culture of Academic Integrity
As an educator or institution approaching the concept of academic integrity, it can be overwhelming when considering the many ways in which integrity can or should come into play.…
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Starting the Year: What You Need to Know About Academic Integrity
New year, new chapter, new opportunities to learn from the past and set the stage for future growth. And as you prepare your classroom or lecture hall, virtually or in person,…
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What Parts of the "New Normal" Are Here to Stay?
Education experienced unimaginable disruption and upheaval due to COVID-19. Educators and students alike felt isolated and overwhelmed as they faced increased class sizes and the ambiguity of…
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Top 10 Blog Posts That Educators Loved in 2020
Whew, 2020, am I right? What can we even say here? 2020 was a doozy! But I do think it’s important to try to find the good, to look for the light amidst the darkness.…
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5 Things You Need to Know About Assessments With Integrity
Designing and delivering assessments is an important part of student learning and teaching efficacy. In any environment, but especially in online learning,…
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Mindfulness and Integrity in the Remote Learning Environment
Mindfulness: a buzzword; a philosophy; a way of life. Whether you have read about mindfulness in the news, caught the gist of it from colleagues, or practice a daily mindfulness and meditation…
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How to Identify Contract Cheating Early Across Your Organization
This blog series about Turnitin Originality has focused on finding text that matches or closely resembles other known text and flagging it as potential plagiarism.…
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Improving Instructor Intuition and Student Growth
The act of teaching, while grounded in principles and specific student learning outcomes, is also an intuitive process. Are your students feeling well? Are your students struggling?…
- 4 mths ago
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How to Uphold Integrity in Online Assessment Design
Online learning environments are a new realm for many educators--and thus an opportunity for innovation and improvement. That said, anything new can be daunting.…
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Flags Insight Panel for Focused Information
The internet is full of articles listing tricks to “beat Turnitin.” They lead students through complicated hoops to manipulate their assignments in order to bypass the similarity checking algorithm.…
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How to Bring Deeper Meaning to the Similarity Score
There is a lot of confusion around Turnitin’s similarity score. What’s the right percentage? Is this percent too high? Is that one too low? Ultimately, this decision is up to each instructor.…
- 5 mths ago
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In the Spotlight: Loughborough University on Partnering with the Student Union
"Partnering with the Students’ Union may not be the first thing to come to mind when designing an academic integrity module for your institution”, says Kit Messinger,…
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In the Spotlight: Mark Sergeant on Academic Misconduct Panel Hearings
The academic integrity process is bi-fold. Although largely centered around introducing preventative measures and promoting strong digital literacy skills to deter misconduct,…
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Education is Built on Trust: New Solutions for New Challenges
When a student graduates and takes their diploma out into the world, there’s an inherent trust in what that credential means. It means the student did the work themselves.…
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Building and Maintaining Strong Student Relationships Remotely: Part 2
Are we already nearing the end of October?! This time of the year is typically filled with fun Fall activities, rigorous instruction and assignments, and a comfortable sense of where students are…
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In the Spotlight: Robin Crockett on Contract Cheating
Contract cheating is a growing trend in academic misconduct, globally. For instructors who are now without the comforts of the class and exam hall, they are confronted with a new set of challenges…
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Everything you Need to Know about Virtual Parent-Teacher Conferences
As parent-teacher conference time approaches for educators and families, the preparation on both ends looks a little different this year. Instead of the typical in-person meeting,…
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How to Cultivate Student Engagement with Online Office Hours
Have you heard about “ acedia ”? It’s that listless, directionless loneliness that is consuming most of us these days. If it feels like your students aren’t very “present” in class these days,…
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