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Using Data to Back up Lecturers' Intuition
Turnitin Originality now surfaces metadata about a student’s submission via the Document Details Insight panel. These details can provide a valuable insight into a student’s research and planning…
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Identifying Intentional Plagiarism
I’m sure many of you will have noticed the new Flags Insight Panel in Turnitin Originality. This draws attention to any text manipulations within a students’ work,…
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Interpreting the Turnitin Similarity Report
The Turnitin Similarity Score is always a contentious issue. What is the ‘right’ percentage? Is a high percentage always bad and what about a low score,…
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Turnitin Academic Integrity Award Details
How and where details are available
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Join the International Day of Action against Contract Cheating
Wednesday 21 October is the 5th International Day of Action Against Contract Cheating led by the International Center for Academic Integrity. As more and more institutions turn to remote and hybrid…
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The Honor Code in 2020
Our recent blog post considers that cornerstone of institutional academic integrity policy, the honor code, and looks at why universities and schools should consider reviewing their code to ensure…
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The Plagiarism Spectrum and New and Emerging Trends
The Plagiarism Spectrum that we developed back in 2012 has always been one of our most popular resources. However, we felt it was due a refresh and our new updated resource,…
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Similarity report of work not plagiarized
I have submitted my MS Thesis to university. It has been returned with the remarks that it is 39% plagiarized. While I checked the report, turnitin was showing similarity of the text with the…
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New Challenges to Academic Integrity
As the new term approaches, schools and universities are faced with the difficult task of adapting high-quality, face-to-face instruction and assessment for online and hybrid learning environments.…
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Similarity rate differs!
Hello folks, I trust this message finds you well. I'm using Turnit in. I have a weird thing that appeared when I tried to perform a similarity report. The rate on the Similarity tab is 11 and when I…
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Similarity percentage regulation
What criteria should be considered to develop institutional policies of similarity in research works
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Turnitin - Report for PhD Thesis
Dear Turnitin, Please clarify the following case. Suppose a student checks his/ her thesis and finds the report statistics as 9%. He gets the degree. Lets us assume the fellow did not published any…
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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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Tactics to Prevent Contract Cheating
In a recent blog post we explored a range of practical steps suggested by US-based educators to help prevent students from turning to third parties and contract cheating sites to write their…
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Article / content spinning
I'm looking for information on how to detect article or content spinning. If a student uses these tools on an article they plagiarized can TII catch it? Thank you!
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Building a Strong Culture of Academic Integrity
As many of the conversations I have with educators currently tend to focus on threats to integrity I'd like to take a moment to revisit this topic of discussion initially started by @Christine Gee…
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Plagiarism Loopholes
Is there anything that can be done to help better detect when students "Frankenstein" their work? I have a clear instance where I detected plagiarism because the student's syntax and diction level…
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Contract cheating - how best to raise student awareness?
Dear global colleagues, I was just having a meeting with our student's union regarding an Academic Integrity/Study Smart week that we ran in November to raise students awareness about academic…
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Checking programming assignments, figures, graphs and tables
Dear friends, How many of you would find the possibility to check computer programs (code excerpts), figures, graphs and tables for originality useful? For us, in computer science,…
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How do you build a culture of Academic Integrity?
WGU is a nonprofit university, and we cater to a diverse student body that has been under served. At the beginning of the program, students are supported during Orientation as they are provided a…