Turnitin is best utilized as a teaching tool to educate students about plagiarism, and to help them learn and practice proper citation. Turnitin, the company, also offers free training for faculty using it. There is no cost to faculty or students when using Turnitin and no software download is required.
Originality reports are usually issued within 48 hours. The report provides the instructor with the entire student submission, highlights areas of concern, and then lists potential outside sources for these areas.
Regardless of whether you are using Turnitin within TCU Online, or as a stand-alone account, Turnitin produces an originality report for students’ text submissions. It can be enabled within an Assignment Submission Folder in TCU Online, or used as a stand-alone tool through. Turnitin’s service compares text submitted by students with their database of sources available on the web, and with materials archived in Turnitin’s databases. Turnitin is an internet-based originality checking and plagiarism prevention service that allows instructors to verify the originality of text. Go to Student Resources for Turnitin What is Turnitin?
