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	Turnitin Plagiarism Detection Software

Turnitin is a plagiarism detection program that allows instructors to submit student papers for checking against Turnitin's  proprietary database. This database contains published text from books and journal articles, from current and archived websites, and from documents submitted by users at other universities. For each submission, an "originality" score is generated, based on the likelihood of the paper's containing plagiarized material.  The accompanying report shows suspect material from the student's paper, side-by-side with the text from which it may have been borrowed; the instructor can use this report to make a judgment whether or not the detected similarities warrant further investigation.

Turnitin is fully integrated with UMKC's Blackboard course management system.  The Blackboard integration, designed to facilitate student's submissions of their own work, interfaces with the course site gradebook for easy access by instructors. Additional information on the use of this plug-in is available in the "Information for UMKC Blackboard Instructors" site (within UMKC's Blackboard system.)

Turnitin can also be accessed from the company's web site (http://www.turnitin.com). For more information, please see the Turnitin web access page.

Please review Turnitin's Usage Policy prior to using the Turnitin software for the first time.

	Video Tutorials on Blackboard/Turnitin Integration

• Creating Turnitin Assignments
• Submitting Turnitin Assignments (student perspective)
• Grading Turnitin Assignments

 

	Web Resources

• UMKC's Student Conduct Code
• UMKC's Rules of Procedure in Student Conduct Matters
• UMKC's Conduct Standards for Students
• Turnitin.com's Usage Policy
• Turnitin.com's FAQ on plagiarism and copyright use
• Turnitin.com's advice for students about citing sources
• Legal Issues Concerning Turnitin.com from the New Jersey Institute of Technology
• Letter from the US Department of Education Concerning Turnitin and FERPA Compliance
• Letter from iParadigms Addressing Turnitin, FERPA Compliance, and Privacy Concerns
• http://www.plagiarism.org/
• Plagiarism: What It is and How to Recognize and Avoid It (Indiana University)

	Support

For more information or support with Turnitin issues, please contact UMKC Instructional Technologies at 816-235-6700 or its@umkc.edu.