Turnitin is an intellectual property verification tool that includes features for grading and reviewing student assignments. As a plagiarism checker, Turnitin: flags text that has been identified as closely matching other online resources, including student-submitted work and published articles; displays possible sources where that text is located; and indicates the percentage of a paper that is attributable to other sources. The tool will ideally reduce overt and accidental plagiarism by helping students understand quotation attribution and citations.
Turnitin and Turnitin Feedback Studio can be used interchangeably. The Feedback Studio is one of the Turnitin products SIUE has adopted to integrate with Blackboard.
Turnitin Feedback Studio consists of three parts:
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Originality Checker - an intellectual property verification tool that flags text that has been identified as closely matching other online resources, including student-submitted work and published articles; displays possible sources where that text is located; and indicates the percentage of a paper that is attributable to other sources. The tool will ideally reduce overt and accidental plagiarism by helping students understand quotation attribution and citations.
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GradeMark - An online tool for grading student work, such as papers, presentations, and images. Turnitin can be configured to analyze or identify spelling, grammatical, or usage errors by enabling the GradeMark e-rater feature within the Turnitin assignment settings.
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PeerMark - An online tool for distributing student work for electronic peer review.
Instructors can set up Turnitin assignments in their Blackboard courses to let students submit a variety of coursework, including papers. Instructors not using Blackboard can also set up courses on the Turnitin site to let students submit assignments; in this case, both instructors and students will need to create accounts on the Turnitin site. In both instances, if students are submitting text files, the submissions are checked against Turnitin's comprehensive databases of source materials and Originality Reports are generated that list the results of the matching process. Visit the ITS Knowledge Base to learn more about using Turnitin in your classes.
For more information or questions about Turnitin, contact Information Technology Services at (618) 650-5500 or via email at bbhelp@siue.edu.
