Turnitin

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.

SIUE also licenses two additional components of the Turnitin suite:

• GradeMark - An online tool for grading student work, such as papers, photographs, and presentations. 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. Consult the GradeMark resource page for additional information.
• PeerMark - An online tool for distributing student work for electronic peer review. Consult the PeerMark for Instructors and PeerMark for Students resource pages for additional information.

All file types are allowed and can receive marks in GradeMark and PeerMark; however, only Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, WordPerfect, PostScript, PDF, HTML, RTF, OpenOffice (ODT), Hangul (HWP), Google Docs, and plain text files with at least 20 words of text will be eligible to receive Originality Reports. The maximum paper length is 400 pages. 

Instructors can set up Turnitin assignments in their Blackboard courses to let students submit work, including papers, photographs, and presentations. Instructors not using Blackboard can also set up courses on the Turnitin site to let students submit work; 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.

NEW! iPad App for Turnitin: Instructors can now view and grade student work using the Turnitin App for iPad. This app has all the features of GradeMark, including comments, grading with rubrics, voice comments, view originality reports, and grading offline.

NOTE: This is only for instructor's use. Students cannot use this app to upload papers.

See instructions for creating a Tii account, downloading, and using the app.

See the video for a demonstration or visit Turnitin Instructor Training for more information.


NOTE: Turnitin for iPad (v1.2.1) is now available in your App store. This updated version will address compatibility issues with iOS7. If you have updated your app prior to October 22nd, please update the app.

Please select a link below to view additional information and resources.

For more information about or additional help with Turnitin, contact Information Technology Services at (618) 650-5500 or via email at ftc_help@siue.edu.