TurnitinUK is a plagiarism detection
and electronic assignment submission web-service that enables HE
institutions to carry out a comparison of student's work against
electronic sources.
The service can be accessed via
our Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), Moodle. York St John
University hopes that this service will be a valuable support tool
for staff and students in their efforts to prevent and detect
plagiarism. For more information, see the YSJ policy on the use of Turnitin
RESOURCES:
- TurnitinUK Tutor Manual
- about creating assignments
- Grademark
Tutor Manual - about grading and marking assignments
online
- TurnitinUK Student
Manual - about
submitting work and receiving feedback and grades
- Moodle Direct Integration Tutor
Manual
- Moodle Direct Integration Student
Manual
- TurnitinUK Video Tutorials on Vimeo
How can Turnitin be used at YSJU?
Electronic detection software like TurnitinUK does not
make decisions about the intention of unoriginal work,
nor does it determine if unoriginal content is incorrectly
cited or indeed plagiarised. It simply highlights
sections of text that have been found in other sources to
allow you to make an evaluation.
There are three ways it can be used at
YSJU:
- A student can freely and privately submit a piece of work for
self-testing through our central plagiarism course area. A
tutor will have no access to work submitted through this
module.
- A tutor may enable TurnitinUK within a particular module
section in Moodle and may encourage or require students to submit
work for electronic self-checking. This may be used to help
students develop powers of citation on a formative basis. A
tutor will then be able to permit a final submission of a piece of
work. Tutors will need to enable students and staff to see
originality reports.
- If a tutor identifies a potential plagiarism case or extensive
mis-citation, he or she may use TurnitinUK to review the
work. The originality report may be used as evidence to
follow up through plagiarism disciplinary procedures.
Students have been alerted to this possibility.
It is not intended to be YSJ policy to collect all work
electronically and to submit all student work as a matter of
routine to TurnitinUK prior to marking.
See the YSJ policy on the use of
Turnitin for more information.
Benefits for staff
- Quickly and easily run checks on your students' work
- Promote academic integrity
- Aid in improving / standardising disciplinary procedures
- Highlight poor / sloppy writing and research skills
- Highlight inappropriate / inadequate assessment practice
- Provoke discussion and debate
- Deter plagiarism and collusion
Benefits for students
- Quickly and easily run checks on your work (provided your tutor
has added a Turnitin assignment)
- Get 'Originality Reports' to help you identify where your work
may be at risk of incorrectly referenced content
- Highlight poor / sloppy writing and research skills so you
can revise and improve your work before
final submission
- Help improve your standard of academic writing