Turnitin
Ensure the academic integrity of assignment submissions and foster original thinking skills for your students.
Turnitin prevents plagiarism with originality checks, while also allowing instructors and student peers to provide detailed feedback for submissions.
Reports, which compare the student submission to an existing database of writing, can go directly to the instructor or to the student so they can revise their writing or citations before submitting a final draft to their instructor.
Features
Turnitin is equipped with functions and features to analyze written work for plagiarism and the tools to provide detailed feedback for identified areas of concern.
- Check students’ work for improper citation or potential plagiarism by comparing it against Turnitin’s content databases
- Databases contain the current and archived web, more than 337 million student submitted papers, and content from Turnitin’s content partnerships with leading content publishers (including library databases, textbook publishers, digital reference collections, subscription-based publications, homework helper sites, and books)
- Conduct cohort analysis from dashboards
- Detailed instructor feedback can be provided for key data points
- TAs can be assigned to their sections to assist with grading
Arts ISIT Resources
UBC has a campus-wide license with TurnitIn and will require set-up through the university.
In addition, since Turnitin is a third-party application that stores data outside Canada, steps must be taken to ensure FIPPA compliancy.
- Request an account through this webform: https://lthub.ubc.ca/support/lt-hub/setup-requests/
- For TAs, a UBC employee email address will need to be provided (@ubc.ca or @mail.ubc.ca)
- After your account is created, you will receive an email containing a link to validate your account.
- You will then receive a second email with a link at which you’ll be able to set your password (no longer than 12 characters), and a security question.
Steps must be taken (creating aliases) to protect student privacy for Turnitin to be FIPPA-compliant.
Please advise your students to delete any identifying information from the original document prior to uploading it. This includes their names and student numbers in the document, as well as any metadata or hidden data that might be stored in the document itself. If you are submitting papers for your students, it is important to do this for your students before uploading their submissions.
To remove metadata from a Microsoft Word document:
- Windows: You can remove the hidden data using Microsoft Word’s Document Inspector.
- Mac: Remove the hidden data by clicking on Word > Preferences > Security, then selecting Remove personal information from this file on save.
Additional Resources
Consultations
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