| If this is your first visit to Turnitin, you might be wondering what it exactly is we do. Here are the answers to some common questions: |
| What is Turnitin? |
| Turnitin is an online resource for educators and students concerned with developing quality writing and research skills. We do this by: |
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providing a reliable, efficient, and powerful deterrent to digital plagiarism |
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hosting an online interface for convenient and innovative peer-to-peer review |
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allowing for online grading with full contextual markup, use of rubrics, and quickmarks |
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offering a gradebook with multiple scaling and grading options, comments, and assignment types |
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providing instructors the ability to aggregate student works into digital portfolios |
| How does your service stop plagiarism? |
| We prevent and detect plagiarism by comparing submitted papers to billions of pages of content located on the internet and our proprietary databases. The results of our comparisons are compiled, one for each paper submitted, in custom "Originality Reports." These reports are sent to participating educators, who access the results by logging into their Turnitin account(s). To take a look at an Originality Report, click on the sample report to the right. For more information about our technology, please visit our Technology FAQ. |
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| How do I start using Turnitin? |
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| To get a price quote for you or your institution, click here. |
| If you are ready to create a new user profile, click here. |
| For a demonstration, click here. |
| How do I use Turnitin once I'm signed up? |
| As soon as you create your user profile and join an account or class, you can login to your unique Turnitin homepage. For details on using Turnitin once you are logged in, please consult our online user manuals. |
| To download our user manuals, click here. |
| To login, click here. |
| How can I find more information on preemptive plagiarism education? |
| Turnitin's companion site, Research Resources, has a wealth of information for educators and students who want to learn more about plagiarism prevention and building good research and citation skills. |
| To visit our Research Resources, click here. |
| What is Peer Review? |
| Peer Review is a patent-pending online interface that allows for easy, anonymous, and customized peer-to-peer evaluation of student papers. Instructors create "peer review assignments" -- collections of topic and rubric questions used to evaluate a given paper or assignment -- that serve as frameworks for students to evaluate each other's work. Peer review assignments can then be distributed according to instructor-specified criteria. | |
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| What is Grademark™? |
| This groundbreaking online tool frees instructors from pen-and-paper grading and gives them the ability to mark student work in a unique, paperless environment. One of the basic problems with placing a grade and selected comments on a physical paper is that there is no subsequent way of tracking the educational progress of student, class, department, or institution. With GradeMark, institutions can now track the exact problems their students are having and whether those problems are improving over time; students can have structured access to grades, contextual comments, and educational rubrics for all work they have ever submitted to Turnitin. All of this is done using a browser. |
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| Create a new user profile: Just like an email account, every Turnitin user has a unique user profile they use to log in to our system. A user profile consists of an email address, a password, and other contact information. You can create a user profile at any time, but keep in mind that you will not be able to use Turnitin until you login with your user profile and join a paying account. |
| Login to Turnitin: If you have already created a user profile, you will be able to log in and start using Turnitin. Once logged-in, you then can associate, or join your user profile with a paying account held by either you or your institution. |
| Get an online quote: All Turnitin users need to be associated with a paying account. Fill out a quote request form to get an idea how much it will cost to license Turnitin for you or your institution. |
| Download our user manuals: Our user manuals, available in PDF format for administrators, instructors, and students, give a more in-depth look at the details of using Turnitin. |