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Why Did You Do It? The Psychology of Contract Cheating
Contract cheating is any work someone does for a student (whether paid or unpaid or as a trade for services) that they then represent as their own. It can be:…
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Straight Talk From an Essay Mill Insider: Part 2 of 2
This is the conclusion of our interview with Dave Tomar, a former essay mill writer, current anti-cheating activist, and author of The Shadow Scholar. Part 1 may be read here.…
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Straight Talk From an Essay Mill Insider: Part 1 of 2
Dave Tomar is an author and journalist who has written extensively on music and education. Tomar catapulted to notoriety with his controversial and eye-opening 2010 article in The Chronicle of…
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How In-Class Writing Assignments Prevent Contract Cheating
Earlier this week, we shared a list of tactics crowdsourced from our teacher network, aimed at fighting back against contract cheating. We discovered that in-class writing assignments,…
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Proven Tactics that Combat Contract Cheating
In recent years, an egregious form of plagiarism has been on the rise: contract cheating, the practice of engaging a third-party to complete assignments.…
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Turnitin Subscription from a third party
Hi, We are an IB school that subscribes Turnitin service via a third party (ISS - International School Services). Will Turnitin be able to trace which ISS school that submitted the works if the IB…
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Quotes Around Entire Paper
So I recently caught a student turning a paper that was not his with his name on it. And the only reason I caught it is because as I was reading it, it sounded too familiar.…
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Uploading pdf image file
In the past few years I was able to submit scanned copies of handwritten student essays to Turnitin for marking exams. Recently Turnitin is not accepting the scanned copies of my student responses…
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Restricting the no. of attempts
We are interested to know if the feature of restricting the no. of attempts of Turnitin submission will be implemented.
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the in line comments
hellow everybody how can we get the comments feedback tools as well as the "quick marks"? thank you aharon
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Moodle - Resub & Original date of submission
Hiya, Turnitin noob here - sorry if this is covered elsewhere. I understand that if resubs are allowed the previous versions are overwritten. Is there a log that show dates of previous submissions?…
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Canvas LMS with Turnitin LTI
Post here to share our insights into using Turnitin (LTI) together with a Canvas course (using Canvas as primary Learning Management System). Thanks!
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Use of Turnitin as Collusion Detection Tool? Share your experiences
Most of the times institutions will focus on checking papers and theses through Turnitin. The main objective of developing writing skills and detecting collusion in the student assignment is ignored…
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26Feb
Northwest Council for Computer Education
Tue Feb 26 2019 - Thu Feb 28 2019Washington State Convention Center, Pike Street, Seattle, WA, USA1 going -
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The Ohio Educational Technology Conference (OETC)
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Pennsylvania Educational Technology Expo & Conference
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Large Unit District Association (LUDA) Winter Conference
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Tracking rubric scores along with grades for individual students across assignments-How to?
Is there a way to track rubric scores on the Common Core Writing rubrics for individual students along with their grades? This would make progress monitoring so much more meaningful!
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7Jan
Blackboard Users' Conference 2019
Mon Jan 7 2019 - Wed Jan 9 2019Business School Within Durham University, Millhill Lane, Durham, UK1 going -
How Do You Give Thanks for Teachers?
The season of giving has arrived, but expressing heartfelt thanks can sometimes prove to be a challenge. Whether you’re a student, parent, admin, or a teacher yourself,…
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Custom Receipts
Hello everyone, Is there a way the receipt generated in Turnitin be customized? We would like to include the student ID at minimum . Has anyone found a way to do this?…
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Strategies for increasing the utilization of Turnitin in high schools
For the past several years our district has provided Turnitin for all high school students and teachers. I am looking for strategies for increasing the utilization of Turnitin at the high school…
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Share an entire class worth's of papers?
Am I the only one who wishes Turnitin would allow teachers to anonymously share several (or all) papers received with all the class members? I would love for my 9th grade students to be able to view…
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Sample Sentence Collection
I like to have students work on sentences from their own essays to improve their sentence craft. How about a feature that would copy selections from student essays onto another document that I can…
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23Jan