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

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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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.

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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.

9. 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
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10. More information
Service web page:
Service level expectations:
Service catalog entry:
Service quarterly report:

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