Documents turnitinoverviewforstaffhelp
- 1. Turnitin Assignments and Originality Reports eLearning Unit Centre for Innovation in Education
- 2. Overview • Suite of products for paperless assignments – Paper Submission and management (Turnitin) – Originality Check (Turnitin Feedback Studio) – Grading and feedback (Turnitin Feedback Studio) – Peer review (Turnitin PeerMark)
- 3. Turnitin – Originality Check • Internet text matching service – not images, not diagrams, etc • An aid to academic judgement – not a determiner that plagiarism has taken place • Database copy of: • Internet web pages • All UK student submissions to Turnitin • Electronic journals and electronically published materials • Generates an Originality Report and score indicating the % of text found to match another source.
- 4. Tii Assignments – Classlist
- 5. Some uses of Turnitin • Potential plagiarism from online sources • Potential collusion between students – internal – externally – across years • Recycling (self-plagiarism) • Formative feedback and developing student academic writing skills • Drafting and assignment development
- 6. Turnitin Some Limitations • Text matching only. • Aid to plagiarism detection – your expertise and judgement is key – misconduct or poor skills? • Not definitive, electronic sources only and there are gaps in coverage (journals and e-books) • Languages – not as strong – translated plagiarism detection not available at UoL yet • Indexing – not exhaustive • Password protected sites
- 7. Originality Checking – Consistent Approach Original student submission List of originality reports Individual originality reports • Not all resources (copies from text books, certain e-journals etc.) will be picked up by Turnitin. • Do you look at all originality reports over a certain %? • Do you do this for all assignments, for all modules? • What do you tell the students? Random checking? Show them all Originality Reports? At each level who is checking/ validating this information?
- 8. Turnitin – The Student View • Robust 3-step submission process (receipts, checks student machine set-up and the below) • File size • File type • Only one file can be submitted • Number of pages • Minimum word count
- 9. Turnitin – The Student View Sample email receipt
- 10. Turnitin Assignment Classlist • Move up to classlist view to show range of OR scores and how these can produce false positives • High score not automatically bad – low score not automatically good. • 0% - alert flag! Poor academic writing (no bibliog, citation, refs) – or even misconduct? In a dual submission system esp. • 100% - not necessarily bad – false positive
- 11. Thresholds (from Tii) Whilst a high OSI may indicate that plagiarism has taken place, this does not necessarily follow. 1. HIGH It may mean that the student does not understand plagiarism and academic writing conventions. Similarly, a high OS may indicate a ‘false positive’ (the student may have submitted work to the wrong assignment area and then uploaded the work to the correct assignment area. Very often, students do not realise that submitting to the wrong area will produce a match, so they don’t inform anybody that they’ve submitted the same work twice.) We’ve also had cases of lecturers uploading students’ work as exemplars, then the student submits the same work and a 100% match is found. Task set (discuss Freud’s theory of Personality or alternatively ‘new’ area of research (very few papers available) 2. LOW A 0% score is just as suspicious as a 100% (or ‘red’ score). In 99% of cases, it means that the student has not included any references, citation or bibliography. Weak students who are allowed to make resubmissions (formatively or summatively) often believe that the object of the exercise is to get down to 0%. In other cases, it can suggest that students are trying to beat the system in some way: ‘white text character in space’ ‘double quotation marks at the start/end of the whole piece’ Both of the above cannot have happened accidentally – may not be plagiarism, but it certainly is academic misconduct!
- 12. Staff View - Turnitin Originality Report • Feedback Studio – combined view • Info and functions around the paper border – Thumbnail view – Paper submission details – Zoom • Originality Layer – Breakdown of sources, exclude sources, see sources in original context, request other institutions to view student papers – All sources – Filters ...and if you get a paper view request....
- 13. Read an Originality Report • Originality Layer • Highlights on the student work • Match Overview/All Sources window • Filters • Apply and recalculate • Exclude sources • Print
- 14. The Turnitin e-publications Database "Our current database consists of: We crawl the Internet in the same fashion as general search engines, so iThenticate users can compare content to billions of Internet pages and Internet documents--millions of pages are added daily. In addition, we archive web content back to eight years. This distinguishes us from search engines in that they only maintain current or fresh online content. As far as offline content: Gale InfoTrac One File - http://www.gale.cengage.com/onefile/ (includes over 11,000 titles) Emerald Journals - http://www.emeraldinsight.com/ ABC-CLIO - http://www.abc-clio.com/ SAGE Reference - http://www.sagepub.co.uk/reference.nav PubMed/MedLine (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/) - more than 1M abstracts and citations only Pearson, McGraw-Hill, and Wiley - more than 200 academic textbooks EBSCOhost - nearly 1M files from a cross-section of databases CrossRef - http://www.crossref.org/crosscheck.html (participating STM and professional publishers have provided us with more than 30M published research articles, books and conference proceedings)
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Editor's Notes
- #5: Workshop resources (Student Submission example) Functionality here Downloads for Hard Copy printing – Show in messages section Anonymised classlist – from U drive – only the Paper ID is known – cover sheet student ID? For electronic marking in systems other than Feedback Studio - would have to work out how to return feedback electronically – not possible directly through Turnitin (no file upload) Relationship to Grade Centre Show with Turnitin view – hiding grades crucial
- #7: Turnitin accepts submissions in the following languages (filenames with non-latin characters can cause probs): Arabic Catalan Chinese (simplified and traditional) Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Farsi Finnish French German Greek Hebrew Hungarian Italian Japanese Korean Norwegian (Bokmal, Nynorsk) Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Serbian Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swedish Thai Turkish
- #8: Hard copy and e-submission (dual submission) – how do you verify whether these are the same thing? Problem of only focussing on a module – rather than at the programme level. Strategies for using Turnitin across programmes. How do you build a process of using Turnitin that is time-efficient, consistent and maximises the benefit of this kind of tool. Dual submission, not wanting to mark online, types