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How to Pick the Best Plagiarism Checker
At Turnitin, we believe the best solution to plagiarism is deterrence and to turn instances of plagiarism into opportunities to facilitate original thinking.…
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Calling All Canvas Users!
Calling all Canvas users! Prepare to experience Canvas and Turnitin in a whole new way with the new Plagiarism Framework. This optimized integration allows Turnitin’s trusted similarity features to…
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End of Year Reflections
The arrival of summer signals the end of the school year across the northern hemisphere. Restless students, ready for adventures outside the classroom,…
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What is the history of rubrics? Why do rubrics matter?
Rubrics are scoring criteria for grading or marking student assessment. When shared before assessment, rubrics communicate to students how they will be evaluated and how they should demonstrate…
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How to ensure fair and accurate end-to-end assessment
Assessments are a checkpoint for student learning and teaching efficacy; consequently, fair, inclusive, and accurate assessments are critical to increase learning outcomes.…
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What is a honor code and why is it important to academic integrity?
“I have neither given nor received assistance while completing this assignment. I pledge that it is my own work in its entirety.” An honor code, like the one above,…
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What is the difference between academic integrity and plagiarism?
Plagiarism is often discussed hand-in-hand with issues surrounding academic integrity. In many instances, they are used interchangeably. And while plagiarism is indeed an act of academic dishonesty…
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The Impact of COVID-19 on Higher Education: What Will 2020-2021 Look Like?
COVID-19 affected a school term in which over the course of just seven days, institutions and instructors pivoted towards remote learning within the context of a global emergency.…
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7 Ways to Celebrate Educators Remotely
Near and far, educators and administrators, tutors and teaching assistants have been working hard to make the most of an online school year. It hasn’t been easy; in fact, far from it.…
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How to Uphold the Value of Paper Assessment in Remote Learning
Paper assessment (when students complete handwritten assignments) is, for many, the most trusted way for students to communicate what they’ve learned and for educators to understand the nuances of…
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How to Build Community in an Online Classroom
Once students are in an online classroom and the rules of videoconferencing etiquette are sorted out, how do you give students a sense of belonging? As we’ve stated before,…
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The Power of Presentation Skills
Cultivating confidence and calm when speaking to an audience is important for students and teachers alike. Public-speaking ability can make the difference between a successful presentation and a…
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How to Address Academic Integrity in Your Syllabus
We shared some of our thoughts on incorporating/addressing academic integrity in your course syllabus. I decided to include some real-life examples from my own course syllabi since we teachers love…
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- Cara McEldowney3 yrs ago
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How Much Do You Know About Turnitin's Content?
How much do you know about our content? Here are some facts and figures. Check out the blog post .
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Why Did You Do It? The Psychology of Contract Cheating
Contract cheating is any work someone does for a student (whether paid or unpaid or as a trade for services) that they then represent as their own. It can be:…
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- Christine Lee3 yrs ago
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Straight Talk From an Essay Mill Insider: Part 1 of 2
Dave Tomar is an author and journalist who has written extensively on music and education. Tomar catapulted to notoriety with his controversial and eye-opening 2010 article in The Chronicle of…
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How In-Class Writing Assignments Prevent Contract Cheating
Earlier this week, we shared a list of tactics crowdsourced from our teacher network, aimed at fighting back against contract cheating. We discovered that in-class writing assignments,…
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Integrity Starts with YOU!
Contract cheating, or the practice of engaging a third-party complete assignments, is on the rise, but how concerned should we be? It turns out, very: a recent study sought to investigate the…
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Best 2018 Summer Reads for Educators
As the classroom environment continues to change, teaching must change along with it. With new challenges and obstacles arising every day, it can be hard to keep up.…
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TAs: The Unsung Heroes Using Turnitin
Turnitin is used by 15,000 institutions across the globe. Typically, when we characterize individuals using Feedback Studio or Revision Assistant, we talk about educators and students.…
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Apps and Resources for Students on the Spectrum
April is World Autism Month, helping to spread awareness about a disorder that affects around 1 in every 160 children worldwide. While there is still so much that can be learned about Autism…
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Top Ten Reasons to Love a Library
Did you know that Americans check out more than 2 billion items each year from their public libraries ? It’s true! Over 68% of the people in this country have a library card.…
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Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Plagiarism
In 2016, the Washington Post used an artificial intelligence reporter, Heliograf, to write some 300 reports from the Rio Olympics . In 2017, the newspaper used it to write some 850 other reports,…
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Strategies and Resources for Resilient Learners
When things don’t go according to plan, how do we learn to keep going? More importantly, how can educators help to nurture resilient learners in the classroom?…
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The Growing Need for Digital Literacy
It’s no secret that the bulk of research is now being done online, both in and outside of the classroom. Whether you’re a student, instructor or researcher,…
- 4 yrs ago
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