TurnitinSimon Pinter

Faculty Technology Services

Agenda Overview

What is Turnitin? How do teachers use it? How do students use it? Recent upgrades

Case Study Walkthrough of submission process Reading the Originality Report

FERPA

Future (ATLAS)

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Overview:What is Turnitin?Originality detection tool

Compares student document submissions to multiple sources

Building block or additional feature added to Blackboard

Overview: How do teachers use it?Create a Turnitin assignment

Set relevant parameters

Review Originality Reports in assignment inbox

Grades are synced with Grade Center

Overview: How do students use it?Submit document to Turnitin assignment in

Blackboard course content area

If allowed by instructor, review personal Originality Report

Case Study:Creating the assignmentSee example

Case Study:Submission processSee example

Case Study:The Originality ReportSee example

FERPA regulationsFederal Educational Rights and Privacy Act

Turnitin implicationsStudent papers become part of the education

record the moment they pass into the instructor’s handsStudents must submit papers directly to Turnitin

Instructors may not submit for students

Instructors must make the use of Turnitin explicitly clear

Instructors must specify which repositories will be referenced in creating the Originality Report

Future (ATLAS)Next generation LMS (learning management

system) at NYUCurrently in developmentWill integrate Turnitin

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