Turnitin Plagiarism Detection Software

This “plagiarism-detection” software is activated by default in all Canvas courses.  It scans student submissions for matched text by comparing the work to a large database of other student submissions, publications, and materials on the internet.  Instructions for using Turnitin, as well as tips about its role as an educational tool, are available at https://teaching.cornell.edu/learning-technologies/assessment-tools/turnitin.  To learn more about Turnitin and get started using it in your class, contact the Center for Teaching Innovation’s academic technology support at acadtech@cornell.edu.

Faculty who use or anticipate using Turnitin must provide notice to students, substantially to the effect of the following: “Students agree that by taking this course, all required papers may be subject to submission for textual similarity review to Turnitin.com for the detection of plagiarism.  All submitted papers will be included as source documents in the Turnitin.com reference database solely for the purpose of detecting plagiarism of such papers.  Use of the Turnitin.com service is subject to the Usage Policy posted on the Turnitin.com site.”  This notice should be included in the course syllabus.  If Turnitin is instituted after the syllabus is distributed, faculty should provide written notice at that time.

Instructors may opt out of storing their students’ work in the Turnitin paper repository. This means that student work will not be available for future comparisons.

 

 

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