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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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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…
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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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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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ChatGTP and other AI
While AI text generation is nothing new, the recently released ChatGTP is pretty sophisticated in providing responses to a variety of prompts. In my department,…
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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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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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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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Skills Deficit or Intentional Plagiarism?
Our recent blog post discusses the thorny question of intentional vs inadvertent plagiarism. As educators we always want to look on the bright side, and we naturally have a very positive outlook, so,…
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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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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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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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Deceiving Turnin by replacing characters
Dear all. I have had an experience where after checking for plaguarism in a student's work and a very high percentage comes up, the work is resubmitted within days with a more than 50% reduction.…
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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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Similarity matched to student essay but is a public webpage
Hello, I have noticed that Tii matches essays with other student work, rather than with the original source, which is a public website. I am able to easily find these sources simply by googling.…
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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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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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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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Starting the Year: What is Academic Integrity?
As we start a new calendar year it's a good idea to reflect on some key terms we use in our universities and schools. We are probably all familiar with the six fundamental values of academic…
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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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Restore Inbox reports from 'Quick Submit'
Hi, I have mistakenly deleted reports from inbox of Quick Submit tab, I have raised a ticket but yet not get any response, can you help me to resolve the ticket (Case #22196320) to restore files back…
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Draft Coach
We're investigating Draft Coach right now - can I double check that, though I've looked at both the initial similarity check & the full report, that it's not including any previously submitted work?…
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Identifying a "QuickSubmit" owner as Turnitin Admin.
I was investigating a potential academic misconduct case recently. While most content uploaded to our VLE can be traced using the course / time it was originally uploaded,…
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how do I register an instructor's account?
how do I register an instructor's account at Turnitin.com?