Plagiarism Detection (Turnitin) Todd Maniscalco and J.P. Brannan February 23, 2016

Agenda Introductions Service Description Value Proposition Metrics Cost Security More information Q&A

Introductions Service owner: Carol Grumbach (Provost Office) Service is not owned by CIT. Service manager: Todd Maniscalco Other service delivery team members (0.1 FTE): Patrick Graham Marina Tokman

Service Description Service name: Plagiarism Detection Product: Turnitin (single-product offering) Description: Turnitin is plagiarism detection cloud-based software licensed by the Office of the Provost which scans student work for matched text by comparing the work to a large repository of student work, publications, and material on the Internet. The Turnitin service is available through an interface built into Cornell's Blackboard Course Management System. Available to: Faculty, Instructional Professionals, Students, and Weill Fee to end user? No Service tier: One

Value Proposition Value proposition Enhances academic integrity by making plagiarism detection faster, consistent, and accurate Integrates with course management system Saves time in policy enforcement Customer impact Discourages plagiarism Allows students to pre-check draft assignments Gives instructors additional teaching and assessment tools Key benefits Submissions are compared to 45 billion works Improves confidence in institutional academic integrity Our database contains 45+ billion web pages, 337+ million student papers and 130+ million articles from academic books and publications.

Metrics Oct 2015 Nov 2015 Dec 2015 Instructors 810 853 808 Students 9,598 11,122 10,515 Total # of submissions 8,978 9,475 7,123 Total Originality Reports 8,730 9,309 7,247 Total Peer Review Assignments 431 55 38 Total Grademark Assignments 3,506 4,008 2,566 Total Graded Papers 1,810 2,259 NA See Full Quarterly Report Online at https://cio.cornell.edu

Cost Cost to deliver the service: Fee for service: None * Three-year contract total: $153,491. Fee for service: None FY 16 Total Cost $62,958 Hardware & Software* $51,164 Labor $10,722 Staff Support $536 Administrative Overhead

Cost Per Unit Total Annual Cost: $62,958 # of Submissions annually: 67,551 Cost per Submission: $0.93 Marginal Costs: HW remains $0, as this service is in the cloud. Software costs are flat up to 21,593 users. Labor costs for user support will increase as users/courses are added.

Security What risks does use of the service mitigate? Financial loss due to copyright infringement fines, legal proceedings, and loss of enrolled students. Reputational harm How does the service mitigate risks? Educate about and prevent plagiarism Early detection of problems Vendor-hosted in cloud datacenters with redundancy See Also: http://www.ithenticate.com/resources/6-consequences-of-plagiarism

More information Service web page: http://www.it.cornell.edu/services/turnitin/ Service level expectations: https://www.it.cornell.edu/services/sle.cfm?doc=18 Service catalog entry: https://catalog.it.cornell.edu/admin/46 Service quarterly report: http://cio.cornell.edu/resources/it-reports-documents-and-presentations/itcornell-quarterly-metrics/plagiarism-detection

Questions? Todd Maniscalco: tam42@cornell.edu J.P. Brannan: jpb1@cornell.edu Consulting/Training support: acadtech@cornell.edu