Turnitin Simon 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) Q&A

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 assignment See example

Case Study: Submission process See example

Case Study: The Originality Report See example

FERPA regulations Federal Educational Rights and Privacy Act Turnitin implications Student papers become part of the education record the moment they pass into the instructor’s hands Students 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 NYU Currently in development Will integrate Turnitin

Q&A