What is Turnitin?
Turnitin is a service that helps educators prevent plagiarism by detecting unoriginal content in student papers. In addition to acting as a plagiarism deterrent, it also has features designed to aid in educating students about plagiarism and the importance of proper attribution of any borrowed content.
Features
OriginalityCheck ®
Ensures original work by checking submitted papers against 20+ billion web pages, 220+ million student papers, and leading library databases and publications.
Disclaimers
Georgia Southern University instructors may utilize a plagiarism prevention technology in some of their course sections. Students may have the option of submitting papers online through a plagiarism prevention service or by allowing the instructor to submit hard copies of their papers. The papers may be retained by the service for the sole purpose of checking for plagiarized content in future student submissions.
How Turnitin Works
- An instructor creates a Turnitin assignment folder inside of a Folio course.
- Students submit their document to the assignment folder.
- Turnitin checks all submitted papers against an archive of internet documents, internet data, a repository of previously submitted papers, and a subscription repository of periodicals, journals, and publications.
- Turnitin creates an Originality Report that can be viewed by instructors and students, which identifies where the text within a student submission has matched another source.
Turnitin Resources for Instructors
Getting Started
When you use Folio, Turnitin can be enabled within individual Assignments Folders through the Evaluation & Feedback menu.
Make sure to view the settings options available in Turnitin. Sometimes you might want to have a document check against the Turnitin repositories, but you don’t want the paper submitted to them. For example: you are requiring a draft prior to a final paper or there is some IP associated with the document.
- Interpreting the Similarity Report
- Refining your Similarity Score
- Similarity Scoring Scenarios
- Understanding the Turnitin Similarity Report: An Educator’s Guide
Interested in how other higher education institutions are using Turnitin? View the success stories.
How To
Feedback Studio
- Create an Assignment with Turnitin Options
- Publish GradeMark Feedback
- Read an Originality Report
- Turnitin Assignment Settings
- Use QuickMarks
- Use Turnitin Rubrics
PeerMark
- About PeerMark
- Create a PeerMark Assignment
- Create a PeerMark Link in Your Course Content
- Grade PeerMark Assignments and Reviews
- PeerMark Assignment Settings
- View Student Reviews
Turnitin Resources for Students
Students have access to Turnitin through Folio. Your instructor will enable the Turnitin settings for individual assignments.
You have the ability to practice submitting Turnitin-enabled assignments and generating similarity reports within the Getting Started with Folio course in Folio.
How To
Feedback Studio
- Accessing Feedback Studio
- Accessing Similarity Report (if the instructor has made it visible)
- Interpreting the Similarity Report
- Submitting an Assignment
- Viewing Your Grade and Feedback
PeerMark
- Accessing PeerMark
- Conducting a Peer Review
- Selecting a Paper to Review
- Submitting a Peer Review
- Viewing PeerMark Feedback
- Viewing Your PeerMark Grade
- Writing a Peer Review
File Types Accepted by Turnitin
- Microsoft Word (.doc/.docx)
- PostScript (.ps/.eps)
- HTML
- Rich text format (.rtf)
- Plain text (.txt)
- Google Docs via Google Drive™
- Adobe PDF
- Microsoft PowerPoint (.pptx, .ppt, .ppsx, and .pps)
- Microsoft Excel (.xls and .xlsx)
- OpenOffice Text (.odt)
Accessibility
At Georgia Southern University, we believe that all students should have equal technology opportunities in the classroom. The following list includes technologies that may appear in Georgia Southern courses and the accessibility information for each of those technologies.