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Turnitin – an overview Amy Willis

MUELC: MEB Uni Monday March 9, 2015 9th March 2015

Overview What is Turnitin?

Why use Turnitin?

When?

How?

Important Points

Limitations

Moodle

Q & A

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What is Turnitin? A cloud-based service for originality checking

Compares submitted work with text from the internet

Educative not punitive

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Students submit initial

draft to Turnitin.

Review Turnitin

report and edit further if

required.

Seek further assistance if

required.

Submit final draft for

assessment.

Why use Turnitin?

Interactive tool

Self-correction and teacher guidance

Critical thinking, paraphrasing, citing and referencing

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When?

From Week 9 students will have unlimited access

Week 9: Introduction to Turnitin and follow-up after submission of AB 2

Week 12: Draft essays/reports due

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How: Originality Report

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Originality Report

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Originality Report

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Originality Report

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Important Points

Access Turnitin through Moodle

The first report should generate quickly, within 5 to 15 minutes

Can only generate one report per dropbox per 24 hours

0% similarity is possible, and acceptable

Only the student and their teachers will be able to see submissions

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Limitations

Does not assess referencing and the accuracy of citations

Does not detect plagiarism

A low similarity index

A high similarity index

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Moodle

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Moodle

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Moodle

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Q & A

turnitin.com

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Additional Information

Anglia Learning and Teaching: Interpreting a Turnitin Originality Report

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=gB7TGpwoopKI8GZAKyWZTEyuI0Iy60incMZyle82KWI%3d

Monash University Turnitin link:

http://guides.lib.monash.edu/content.php?pid=617135&sid=5149623

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