We've always advocated Turnitin OriginalityCheck to be used as a tool to teach proper citation and source integration, to address academic integrity, and to make investigating potential plagiarism easier.

OriginalityCheck at its core is simple to start exploring and using in your classroom. By providing visual feedback, you and your students can get a good representation of how well they've integrated outside source material into their writing. At a glance, you can take a closer look into papers with higher matches.

Many instructors use OriginalityCheck as their last line of defense, used only when students submit their final paper. Students upload their papers, say a quick prayer, and click submit. In this workflow, by the time you grade an essay, it's often too late to give students the feedback they need. They've already moved on to the next assignment and are likely integrating their research incorrectly once again. Integrating OriginalityCheck into the early stages of drafting allows students to learn from the originality report and use your guidance to make necessary corrections.

In the Turnitin Academy Live webinar, Originality, Plagiarism and the Web, we discussed several teaching tips and strategies as well as ways to use Turnitin OriginalityCheck as an instructional tool. Some key features we covered included using revision and reflection assignments support process writing.

Want to learn more? Watch a recording of Originality, Plagiarism and the Web.