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Improving Instructor Intuition and Student Growth
The act of teaching, while grounded in principles and specific student learning outcomes, is also an intuitive process. Are your students feeling well? Are your students struggling?…
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How to Uphold Integrity in Online Assessment Design
Online learning environments are a new realm for many educators--and thus an opportunity for innovation and improvement. That said, anything new can be daunting.…
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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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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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Flags Insight Panel for Focused Information
The internet is full of articles listing tricks to “beat Turnitin.” They lead students through complicated hoops to manipulate their assignments in order to bypass the similarity checking algorithm.…
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Paper View requests if Instructor is enrolled on both Blackboard courses
In the Blackboard basic integration if an Instructor is enrolled on a Blackboard course where Turnitin identifies a match to a paper in another Blackboard course in which they are also an Instructor,…
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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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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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How to Bring Deeper Meaning to the Similarity Score
There is a lot of confusion around Turnitin’s similarity score. What’s the right percentage? Is this percent too high? Is that one too low? Ultimately, this decision is up to each instructor.…
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In the Spotlight: Loughborough University on Partnering with the Student Union
"Partnering with the Students’ Union may not be the first thing to come to mind when designing an academic integrity module for your institution”, says Kit Messinger,…
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Can Turnitin run a visuals/audios/audiovisuals check?
Hi My name is Himawan from Sekolah Ciputra, Surabaya, Indonesia. Not sure what is possible, but does Turnitin have audio/visual/audiovisual plagiarism checker? Regards
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No similarity report for half my essays
This was from 24 hours ago. I have only received half of the similarity reports for my 22 essays.
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Single submission not getting scanned for plagiarism
I have uploaded a single file (PDF or DOCX) and three times now, turnitin won't scan it for plagiarism, or give it a score. Under the Similarity column, there is nothing but an empty box.…
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Thank You, Class of 2020!
How has 2020 been for you? No, really, we want to know… As this tumultuous year draws to an end, we’d like to say an enormous ‘thank you’ to all of you who have made a difference to student learning…
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Thank You, Class of 2020!
How has 2020 been for you? No, really, we want to know… As this tumultuous year draws to an end, we’d like to say an enormous ‘thank you’ to all of you who have made a difference to student learning…
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Download from Canvas no longer shows paper ID
I have always downloaded students' submissions from the Canvas window because it was very easy, just a couple of clicks and a couple of seconds. When I've downloaded paper submissions,…
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In the Spotlight: Mark Sergeant on Academic Misconduct Panel Hearings
The academic integrity process is bi-fold. Although largely centered around introducing preventative measures and promoting strong digital literacy skills to deter misconduct,…
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Education is Built on Trust: New Solutions for New Challenges
When a student graduates and takes their diploma out into the world, there’s an inherent trust in what that credential means. It means the student did the work themselves.…
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Building and Maintaining Strong Student Relationships Remotely: Part 2
Are we already nearing the end of October?! This time of the year is typically filled with fun Fall activities, rigorous instruction and assignments, and a comfortable sense of where students are…
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In the Spotlight: Robin Crockett on Contract Cheating
Contract cheating is a growing trend in academic misconduct, globally. For instructors who are now without the comforts of the class and exam hall, they are confronted with a new set of challenges…
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Everything you Need to Know about Virtual Parent-Teacher Conferences
As parent-teacher conference time approaches for educators and families, the preparation on both ends looks a little different this year. Instead of the typical in-person meeting,…
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ExamSoft Becomes Part of the Turnitin Family
During this unprecedented time, more and more aspects of our daily life are transitioning online. The education space has felt this change acutely as schools, educators,…
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How to Cultivate Student Engagement with Online Office Hours
Have you heard about “acedia”? It’s that listless, directionless loneliness that is consuming most of us these days. If it feels like your students aren’t very “present” in class these days,…
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How to Uphold the Best Practices in Online Grading
Assessment is how we measure learning. Feedback is how students learn, regardless of grades--and is critical in online learning environments. Paired together,…