Turnitin Draft Coach™ – With your students every step of the way
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Turnitin Draft Coach serves as a supportive integrity assistant that lives where students work and supports them in doing proper research, citing their sources effectively, and delivering high-quality academic writing.
By providing students with formative feedback on citations and matches with Turnitin’s comprehensive database of internet, student papers and academic content, Draft Coach helps educators cultivate more independent learners and confident writers.
Turnitin Originality – a new Standard in Academic Integrity
With the new flagship Originality, Turnitin continues on its path of excellence with new system architecture designed so that it can easily be adapted to implement solutions to battle current and future challenges to academic integrity – and to create successful students.
Formative learning – allow your students to reach a higher level of academic writing
Although the educational possibilities are often emphasised, plagiarism control has long been seen and used as simply that – plagiarism control. Students are introduced to it when they begin their studies or start a course and then it is used at the end to catch plagiarism…and little else.
Those who have made mistakes, those who have not received or absorbed adequate education and those who have not been discouraged (or who may have been desperate enough in their study situation) from taking unauthorised shortcuts are all treated in the same way. Digital tools, of course, have little or no chance of distinguishing between these situations and so these students end up with disciplinary boards for investigation or nothing happens with them at all, depending on how well examiners follow policy. Unfortunately, classic plagiarism control is not something that solves the real problem, but it rather drives a spiral of new creative cheating methods and new countermeasures and, perhaps in the worst case, stress and anxiety in students.
Turnitin has therefore thought a few steps ahead and, with its new product Originality, wants to tackle the root cause instead of the symptom and to actively help students make the right decision and to develop their writing. Academic Integrity work in the future will focus on formative learning rather than fearmongering so that students will instead be guided to a hihger level of academic writing using a method that actually works. Turnitin Draft Coach continuously checks for similarities whilst students draft work; when they are ready, they can check their sources and matches in the same way that they check their grammar and spelling before submitting their work. If a reference is missing, Citation Assistant steps in and reminds students of the correct citation methods.
“What the next level of working with academic integrity will look like around the world”
The Citation Assistant finds missing citations and teaches proper citation style
Using this formative approach, students can rethink poor decisions, correct any mistakes and can learn proper writing techniques. Originality, via clear analytics, gives the institution the information it needs to be able to see exactly which students need more help with their writing.
By being able to compare texts forensically with texts previously written by the same student to ensure authorship, identify reuse of code in programming tasks and very clearly and accurately report text manipulations intended to circumvent academic integrity checks, Originality is a very powerful tool.
“The rapid shift to online learning provides different opportunities for misconduct. While a holistic approach to academic integrity is advocated, it is likely that gaps will emerge. We must be continually updating the toolkit of support and detection measures.”
Phill Dawson
Associate Professor & Associate Director of the Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning (CRADLE), Deakin University
”Best in class” similarity checker
Work with the document’s original format, with pictures, tables and graphs in their proper places
Reveal deliberate text manipulations intended to circumvent academic integrity verification
Forensically compare previous texts by the same student to ascertain authorship
Identify code plagiarism and reuse in programming assignments
All documents are stored in the EU
Seamlessly built into MS Teams, by Microsoft, at no extra charge
Empower educators with insight. Set students up for success
Numbers and values are all well and good but they can harm rather than help if they are not given in context. With Turnitin Originality, teachers and administrators are given dashboards and reports which can make a genuine difference when it comes to spotting and supporting students who need a little extra assistance.
Dashboards help identify risks and conduct cohort analysis
Reports show results within the context of students’ assignments
Clear and actionable data points provided for every submission
Turnitin source areas
Effective academic integrity practices focus on various types of potential plagiarism and protecting the work of students, academic writers, professional writers, publishers, and researchers. Access to content is key to teaching and upholding originality and Turnitin helps address all types of academic integrity with databases that include access to up to three types of content: the open internet, extensive scholarly journals and publications, and student papers contributed with the author’s permission.
Our Coverage (varies with license model):
Global student papers database
Use to:
Discourage student collusion, the most common form of plagairism, when comparing against 15 years of student papers
- 1.4 billion student papers
- 1 million papers are submitted daily duriong peak period
- Submissions from around the world
Global student papers database
Use to:
Compare matches against individual internet sources to easily see potential copy and paste plagiarism.
- 22 million new pages added daily
- 91 billion current and archived web pages
- 102 million pages crawled and updated daily
Premium scholarly publications
Use to:
Researchers and students can easily compare original work against published works from around the world
- 82 million subscription articles
- 47 thousand subscription journals
- <1.3 thousand publishers from around the world
- 13 thousand open access repositories
- 95% of the top 10.000 journals are included in our database
Turnitin content is trusted and used exclusively by top publishers
Through our trusted relationship with Crossref, 1500 publishers in their network use iThenticate as a fundamental part of the manuscript screening and review process. Publishers rely on Turnitin’s expansive content database to surface any potential plagiarism issues prior ro publication, protecting the journal’s and researcher’s reputation.
Turnitin Similarity – A text similarity report with Powerful Results
Schools which do not require all the functionality which Originality delivers, such as forensic linguistics and plagiarism checking programming code, have a fantastic chance to bolster their efforts to combat plagiarism by using Turnitin Similarity.
Work with the document’s original format, with pictures, tables and graphs in their proper places
Reveal deliberate text manipulations intended to circumvent academic integrity verification
All documents are stored in the EU
Seamlessly built into MS Teams, by Microsoft, at no extra charge
Turnitin SimCheck – Simple, Cost effective and Powerful
If the school in its analysis of requirements considers it unnecessary to check whether students have used material from schools and universities in 140 countries or from sources such as CrossRef, Elsevier, Springer, Wiley-Blackwell, Taylor & Francis, among others, and what is needed is a robust yet simple and low-cost plagiarism detection tool, Turnitin offers SimCheck.
Check for similarities against 70 billion current and archived web pages
Check against your own private repository or share it with other schools in the municipality, county or school group
Work with the document’s original format, with pictures, tables and graphs in their proper places
All documents are stored in the EU
Seamlessly built into MS Teams, by Microsoft, at no extra charge
Turnitin in Canvas, by Jonathan Diel
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