Turnitin is a tool available to students and academics to check assessments for referencing errors and potential plagiarism. When fully integrated into the assignment submission process, the Turnitin Similarity check allows both students and staff to scrutinise academic integrity during the submission, grading and feedback workflows, all via the assignment dashboard in Brightspace.
Students can use this tool during the drafting (and final) submission process for their assignment documents, to check for potential issues with originality.
This easy-to-use tool allows both students and staff to check the submitted document for originality, using a process called text matching. Text matching is available to both the student and the academic. Both a similarity index (score) and an originality report are available. The similarity index comes through as a percentage of the paper that has matched to other sources in the system. The originality report shows the matches in greater detail. The Turnitin platform is an integral aspect of the Charles Sturt Academic Integrity policy and process.
Outside of their assignment portals, students always have access to a separate school-based Turnitin score check, which will not impact on their formal assessment submissions in any way (the document is not saved / stored in Turnitin’s global repository for future reference). Details on how students can access their school ‘Check my assignment’ portal can be found under the student learning skills resources assignments page.
The following resources are available to assist users of the Turnitin platform: