Using Turnitin
Turnitin is now available for staff to use via Moodle. Use the links below to find further information about using Turnitin at the University of Kent.
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Email turnitin-help@kent.ac.uk if you have any queries about implementing and/or using Turnitin with your students. |
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What is Turnitin?
Turnitin is the Turnitin Plagiarism Detection Software supplied under license from Turnitin UK .
- Submitted work is matched against a database of previously submitted work from every institution which subscribes to Turnitin, (including international institutions); current and archived internet pages and databases of journals and periodicals (“over 10 million student papers, … millions of pages of books and journals and over 6 billion pages of the current and archived Internet” see http://www.submit.ac.uk/static_jisc/ac_uk_products.html#originality_checking)
- Turnitin does not detect plagiarism: it is a text-matching software which provides a report on whether a student's work is original (no matching text) or unoriginal.
- Each instance of matching text should be examined individually for full and correct referencing.
- The University Guidelines on Using Turnitin (Approved by LTB October 2006)
- Interpreting the Originality Report
- Turnitin user manuals (link to Turnitin.com website)
- Creating a Turnitin Assignment: to create a basic paper assignment
- Creating peer review and revision assignments:creating assignments for draft and redrafted papers; options for peer assessment
- Turnitin inbox: How to submit student papers to Turnitin; options to view the Turnitin inbox and manage student papers
- The Originality Report: How to open the report and options for viewing matching text sources