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Share your thoughts about Turnitin’s Similarity Report
We’re now looking for educators, academic misconduct officers, and all those actively using Similarity Reports in their day-to-day work to share their feedback with us.…
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Announcing long-awaited updates to the PDF report
Great news, everyone! Turnitin has rolled out a couple of much-needed updates to the PDF report. We’ve heard from you that the PDF report export workflow caused confusion as you had to download it…
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Ways to reduce academic dishonesty: What educators need to do?
With hybrid or fully remote learning, 72% out of 2,000 college students surveyed feel too overwhelmed to get good grades. This is one of the major reasons students cheat,…
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Exclusions: Do you make the most of them?
Situations are rare when a submission receives 0%-5% similarity. It sometimes happens when students were supposed to create opinion pieces sharing their personal thoughts or findings or when text…
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Did you know about these PDF report applications?
Hi there! We recently mentioned the PDF and its major perks. Now, it’s about the right time to brainstorm more use cases for it. Apart from being good evidence for the grades,…
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What do you get from the PDF Similarity Report?
Educators will surely benefit from the similarity score and online reports delivered by Turnitin Similarity upon completion of each paper check. They provide a lot of insights into students’ writing…
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How can synonym swapping detection by Turnitin help you?
We’ve recently had a conversation with a couple of teachers who said that they spend around 90% of their time analyzing students’ submissions to find out whether or not plagiarism has occurred.…
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Questions of the day
Have you ever encountered unfair paraphrasing? Was it synonym swapping or something else? How do you recommend tackling these situations?
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A handful of tips for teaching paraphrasing
For students to see the real value of paraphrasing, it should be incorporated across various courses and in as many contexts as possible (not only writing, but also reading, speaking, and listening).…
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Paraphrasing classroom resources arrived!
Since we’ve been talking about paraphrasing lately, we’ve put together some useful classroom materials. Here, you’ll find anything from a lesson plan to student handouts:…
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What makes paraphrasing dishonest?
Paraphrasing requires regular training and thoughtful writing from students. It’s essential to explain why and how to do it legitimately. Otherwise, they’d be more willing to look for shortcuts than…
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A list of back-to-school essentials for you!
The new academic year has arrived, which means you’ve already deep dived into the learning process. Just to ensure that Turnitin Similarity will serve you well,…
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Explore all the ins and outs of Turnitin Similarity!
Feel free to raise feature questions here
We've created this section for you to exchange best practices with peers and ask us questions about the product functionality.… -
Hey and welcome to the Turnitin Similarity community!
This is the place for you to share advice on using Turnitin Similarity with your peers, learn about upcoming product updates and receive recommendations on making the most of the existing…
