- About
- Turnitin for Faculty
- Turnitin for Students
- Policy Considerations
About Turnitin
Chadron State College subscribes to Turnitin annually and makes it available to all CSC instructors via the CSC Online portal as it is integrated within the learning management system (LMS), Canvas.
Turnitin is a suite of web applications designed to assist in the evaluation of written assignments. It helps to enhance a student’s knowledge and understanding of plagiarism, and it supports faculty in better documenting plagiarism cases.
Plagiarism is assessed by Turnitin by comparing submitted papers to a database containing over 45 billion webpages, 337 million student papers, and 130 million academic publications. When student papers are compared against the database for matching content, an originality report is generated. The originality report indicates how similar a student’s paper is to content found within the database. Thereafter, the student’s paper is added to the Turnitin database so that future submissions can be checked against it for originality.
Turnitin is not a “gotcha” tool. Faculty members who use Turnitin should make their students aware they are using it in their courses. Ideally, faculty should discuss with their students how the system works or, at the very least, provide links to some basic information about the system. CSC’s aim in purchasing Turnitin is for students to develop honest academic practices, reference sources correctly, and thereby limit the risk of submitting plagiarized work.
Compatibility Requirements
File requirements for submission to be processed for Turnitin AI writing detection:
- File size must be less than 100 MB.
- File must have at least 500 words of prose text and not exceed 15,000 words.
- File must be written in English long form writing format.
- Accepted file types: .docx, .pdf, .txt, .rtf
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Policy Considerations When Using Turnitin
Turnitin services can be turned on by instructors through Canvas via the Assignments tool. When the service is turned on, student papers will be submitted automatically to Turnitin and concurrently submitted to the Turnitin database. The results of the Turnitin analysis are returned via the Canvas LMS in the form of an Originality Report. It is up to CSC instructors if they wish to share the contents of originality reports with students.
While Turnitin is a plagiarism detection tool, it cannot actually determine if plagiarism has occurred. Turnitin can only provide feedback on a written work’s degree of originality vis-à-vis its ever-expanding database. Turnitin’s analysis is simply a tool; instructors must use their own professional discretion to determine if plagiarism has occurred.
CSC recommends that faculty announce their intended use of Turnitin in their syllabi. We invite faculty to use or adapt the following paragraph:
Chadron State College has a licensing agreement with Turnitin, an online service that promotes honest academic practices. This course will use Turnitin at the instructor’s discretion to determine the originality of your written work. When your work is submitted to Turnitin, it will be stored within Turnitin’s database so that future submissions may be checked against it for originality.
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