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TurnItIn

What is TurnItIn

Turnitin is an online plagiarism detection tool and academic integrity solution. It is primarily designed to promote originality and ensure proper citation practices in academic writing.

When a document or paper is submitted to Turnitin, it is compared against a vast database of academic publications, websites, and other submitted papers. The software identifies any instances of text that match existing sources, highlighting potential instances of plagiarism or improper citation.

In addition to plagiarism detection, Turnitin offers features for instructors to provide feedback and grade student submissions. It allows instructors to create assignments, collect and review student papers, and provide comments and annotations directly on the documents. Students can also access their similarity reports to see the matched sources and make appropriate revisions to their work.

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How to Create a TurnItIn Assignment

How Teachers Grade TurnItIn Assignments

How Students Submit a TurnItIn Assignments

Updates & New Features

Turnitin AI Writing Detection

Turnitin's AI writing detection is available now Turnitin launches AI detection to help educators identify when AI writing tools such as ChatGPT have been used in students’ submissions.

Best Practices / Tips / Testimonials

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Troubleshooting

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Help Desk Portal

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Mastery & Inclusive Features

Turnitin Draft Coach

Draft Coach helps students develop citation, research, and writing skills by providing feedback while they write in Microsoft Word on the web or Google Docs.

Draft Coach highlights grammar mistakes and provides explanations to help students edit and deepen their understanding.

This feedback helps students understand their strengths and areas for improvement, enabling them to revise their work and enhance their mastery of the subject matter. Students can make revisions based on the feedback received, leading to a deeper understanding of the material and improved writing skills.

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ISTE Standards

Relevant ISTE Standards

Digital Citizenship

Students recognize the rights, responsibilities and opportunities of living, learning and working in an interconnected digital world, and they act and model in ways that are safe, legal and ethical.

  • Students cultivate and manage their digital identity and reputation and are aware of the permanence of their actions in the digital world.


    (ISTE Standard 2a)

  • Students engage in positive, safe, legal and ethical behavior when using technology, including social interactions online or when using networked devices.
    (ISTE Standard 2b)

Knowledge Constructor

Students critically curate a variety of resources using digital tools to construct knowledge, produce creative artifacts and make meaningful learning experiences for themselves and others.

  • Students evaluate the accuracy, perspective, credibility and relevance of information, media, data or other resources.
    (ISTE Standard 3b)

  • Students curate information from digital resources using a variety of tools and methods to create collections of artifacts that demonstrate meaningful connections or conclusions..
    (ISTE Standard 3c)

Innovative Designer

Students use a variety of technologies within a design process to identify and solve problems by creating new, useful or imaginative solutions.

  • Students know and use a deliberate design process for generating ideas, testing theories, creating innovative artifacts or solving authentic problems.
    (ISTE Standard 4a)

  • Students select and use digital tools to plan and manage a design process that considers design constraints and calculated risks.
    (ISTE Standard 4b)

Computational Thinker

Students develop and employ strategies for understanding and solving problems in ways that leverage the power of technological methods to develop and test solutions.

  • Students formulate problem definitions suited for technology-assisted methods such as data analysis, abstract models and algorithmic thinking in exploring and finding solutions.
    (ISTE Standard 5a)

  • Students collect data or identify relevant data sets, use digital tools to analyze them, and represent data in various ways to facilitate problem-solving and decision-making.
    (ISTE Standard 5b)

Creative Communicator

Students communicate clearly and express themselves creatively for a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats and digital media appropriate to their goals.

  • Students choose the appropriate platforms and tools for meeting the desired objectives of their creation or communication.
    (ISTE Standard 6a)

  • Students create original works or responsibly repurpose or remix digital resources into new creations.
    (ISTE Standard 6b)

Global Collaborator

Students use digital tools to broaden their perspectives and enrich their learning by collaborating with others and working effectively in teams locally and globally.

  • Students use digital tools to connect with learners from a variety of backgrounds and cultures, engaging with them in ways that broaden mutual understanding and learning.
    (ISTE Standard 7a)

  • Students explore local and global issues and use collaborative technologies to work with others to investigate solutions.
    (ISTE Standard 7d)

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