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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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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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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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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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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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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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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,…
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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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15 IRL Student Excuses for Missing Class
It's good to find humor in setbacks. Here's a humorous listicle with 15 IRL student excuses for missing class. Check out the listicle on the blog .
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9 Books to Read for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
As we wrap up May, which is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month in North America, we want to remind you of this reading list. The Asian diaspora is large and diverse,…
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7 Ideas for the Last Day of Class
Whether you're in the Northern Hemisphere or the Southern Hemisphere or Eastern or Western--there's always a last day of class. Here are some ideas to help wrap up your academic year.…
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5 Ways to Include Academic Integrity in your Institution's Strategic Plan
Strategic plans for most institutions are structured as follows: FOUNDATION: Mission Statement of Your Institution SUPPORTING STATEMENTS: Your Institution’s Values, Goals,…
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Operation Varsity Blues and the Importance of Integrity
When Jennine Capó Crucet , author of the award-winning novels How to Leave Hialeah and Make Your Home Among Strangers , was admitted to Cornell University,…
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Drastic Measure: A Short Story About Contract Cheating by Julia Tereno
The most powerful voices on contract cheating are from students themselves. With this in mind, Turnitin invited students from the UK and Ireland to share their thoughts on the subject.…
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How to Address Academic Integrity in your Classroom
Educators are consistently advised to create a “culture of integrity” within our classrooms. So how do we go about establishing such a culture? 1. First things first,…
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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…
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