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Turnitin announces Americas Higher Ed Awards
Turnitin is delighted to announce the winners of The Americas Higher Ed Awards which recognize educators and institutions in the education community that showcase innovation in the fields of…
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SAGE journal retracts 122 papers
A SAGE journal has retracted 122 papers because of “clear indicators that the submission and/or peer review process for these papers was manipulated.” A look at the first three titles suggests that…
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Checking a late paper for plagiarism
My university uses turnitin for student submissions through Canvas. A student emailed me a late assignment (not submitted through Canvas and therefore not checked by turnitin).…
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The Turnitin Similarity Score: what does it actually mean?
The Turnitin Similarity Score is often the source of much discussion. Not only is the score often an indicator of unattributed text and possible misconduct,…
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Working with your students to develop an honor code
This week’s Turnitin Blog looks at honor codes and their integral role in an institution’s academic integrity strategy. The blog explores how the process of developing an honor code should be a…
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Join the International Day of Action Against Contract Cheating
Wednesday 20 October, is the 6th International Day of Action (IDoA) Against Contract Cheating, a global call to action to prevent the use of essay mills and contact cheating services and also…
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Plagiarism and academic integrity
A recent blog post looked at the interlinked concepts of plagiarism and academic integrity. How do you present the concepts of plagiarism and academic integrity to your students?…
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Student Voices on Academic Integrity
Do you want to know what today's higher education students really know and understand about academic integrity, and equally how we, as educators, can support them both in the classroom and remotely?…
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Source code plagiarism
A recent Turnitin Blog post discusses source code plagiarism, where students may copy computer code and submit it as their own work. The article makes the valid point that whilst this type of…
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How do you treat self-plagiarism at postgrad. level?
Hi all, I'd like to hear how your HE institution treats self-plagiarism (or double submission) at PG level. In some subjects, we may scaffold our assessments (e.g.…
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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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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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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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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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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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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,…