UIS Turnitin Home

Turnitin is an online resource for educators and students concerned with developing quality writing and research skills. They do this by:

providing a reliable, efficient, and powerful deterrent to digital plagiarism
hosting an online interface for convenient and innovative peer-to-peer review
allowing for online grading with full contextual markup, use of rubrics, and quickmarks
offering a gradebook with multiple scaling and grading options, comments, and assignment types
providing instructors the ability to aggregate student works into digital portfolios

The Office of Technology-Enhanced Learning has licensed Turnitin accounts for the entire campus from January 2002-January 2006. Any faculty member, online or on-campus, wishing to use this service should contact OTEL at 206-7317 to be added to the UIS Turnitin account.

Basic Info
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The Turnitin Licences includes:
plagiarism prevention
Internet and database searches
peer review features
research resources
digital archiving
class management tools
administrative help desk support

Updated April 2005

Quickstart Training Materials

Turnitin quickstarts are designed to help new users get started with Turnitin and are available as a multimedia Flash presentation or in PDF format.

Instructor Quickstart (Flash | PDF)
Student Quickstart (Flash | PDF)

Additional Plagiarism Resources
Plagiarism.org
Virtual Academic Integrity Laboratory
Sharon Stoerger's Plagiarism Site

Articles
Plagiarism-Detection Tool Creates Legal Quandary, The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 17, 2002.