Our Company
The early years
- Four UC Berkeley graduate students develop a peer review application for use in graduate student classes.
- Founders build a prototype of Turnitin that detects unoriginal content in student written work.
- iParadigms, the parent company of Turnitin, is incorporated.
- Turnitin partners with CrossRef and develops iThenticate to serve scholarly publishers.
- Turnitin releases WriteCheck to provide students with formative writing tools.
2009 - present
- Warburg Pincus acquires a majority stake in Turnitin.
- Turnitin for Admissions is released to detect plagiarism in college applications.
- Turnitin2 is released with a tighter integration of originality checking, online grading and peer review, layered on top of the paper in its original form.
- Turnitin acquires nLearning and establishes its International headquarters in Newcastle, UK.
- Turnitin announces a partnership with Educational Testing Service to incorporate its ETS® e-rater® technology into Turnitin.
- Translated matching is released in February 2011 to help detect plagiarized content that has been translated from English.
- Turnitin grows to over 150 employees in 2012.
Service Facts
The Service
- Turnitin processed over 80 million papers in 2012.
- 190,000 papers are submitted per day with 500,000 papers submitted on peak days.
- Turnitin records service uptime of 99.9% and average turnaround time of 23.9 seconds per paper.
- GradeMark is rapidly re-inventing how papers are graded, and is doubling in usage each year. Turnitin celebrated its 20 millionth GradeMark review in October 2012.
- Turnitin supports 16 languages: English, Arabic, Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.
- Turnitin integrates with more than 50 Course Management Systems, including Blackboard, Moodle, Instructure Canvas, Desire2Learn, Pearson Learning Studio, and Sakai.
- Turnitin uses three databases for content matching:
- 40+ billion web pages crawled
- 300+ million archived student papers
- 130+ million articles from 110,000+ journals periodicals & books
Turnitin Customers
- Turnitin serves over
- 1 million active instructors
- 20 million licensed students
- 10,000 educational institutions
- Turnitin customers include 56% of the top 100 high schools listed on U.S. News and World Report's America's Best High Schools in 2010.
- Of the top 100 colleges and universities in the 2010 U.S. News and World Report Best Colleges list, 69% are Turnitin customers.
- 130 of the top 200 universities in the world use Turnitin, as indicated in the Times Higher Education World Rankings (2012).
- 51% of Turnitin instructors teach subjects other than English, writing, composition, or communications.
- Turnitin customers are located in 126 countries.
Partners
Turnitin has partnered with learning management providers, content providers, and regional experts to deliver a complete solution.
Integration Partners
Turnitin integrates with leading Learning Management Providers to ensure a fast and seamless experience for administrators, instructors and students. Learn more
Content Partners
In addition to indexing the Web and more than 220 million students papers, Turnitin provides over 120 million content items from leading textbook, academic and content publishers.
Interested in partnering with us? Are you are the copyright holder of content? Email us
Global Resellers
Turnitin works with leading educational experts to offer support for our products around the world. Contact Us
