Teaching

In our first blog "Does Turnitin Detect Plagiarism?” we said that Turnitin does not detect plagiarism but, rather, generates a similarity index indicating text matches to the Turnitin databases. Instructors ...

U.S. President Barack Obama participated in a live half-hour interview on NBC's TODAY show with Matt Lauer talking about education as part of the "Education Nation” summit. Watch the interview here:  ...

There is little doubt that a large part of plagiarism incidents are intentional attempts to cheat, perhaps an equal proportion of incidents stems from students that are uninformed or unaware of proper ...

... and grade: 108 essays x 15 minutes = 1620 minutes = 27 hours. That's 27 hours outside of preparing and teaching her classes.  ...

Turnitin power user Cath Ellis from the University of Huddersfield presents her institution’s experience of using GradeMark as a tool for online submission and evaluation. She highlights the benefits this ...

Students who do not use their school’s library writing centers are missing important, helpful programs, and their grades may be suffering because of this. Online universities offer some very useful tools ...

"Turnitin.com has no doubt made me a better teacher. Something that would've taken me a hundred hours now takes me twenty hours over the course of a two-week period. And the kids get it [...] so they tend ...

In an age of online paper mills spitting out weak, sickly puppies of papers and destroying the integrity of college composition, I find myself becoming an anti-Cruella De Vil out to eliminate any use of ...

The folks over at EasyBib, a citation help site, recently created a new infographic on information literacy. This infographic builds on research from Turnitin's Infographic and White Paper on the top sites ...

In our most recent Turnitin Academy Live webinar, Developing Critical Thinking Skills with PeerMark, we asked our attendees, "What are the benefits of peer review and why do we bother?" Some of your colleagues ...

Instructors and students are most familiar with Turnitin as a plagiarism prevention tool. Many miss the opportunity to use Turnitin as a teaching tool to really engage students and provide them with meaningful ...