• Wednesday, 26 August 2020
    10:00 am - 11:15 am
  • Zoom – further details provided upon registration

Who should attend this session?

Teaching staff who use Turnitin.

What will you learn? 

Turnitin is an online tool which matches a submitted text-based assignment against database of:

  • web pages (more than 62 billion)
  • student papers (more than 734 billion)
  • journal articles, periodicals and books (more than 165 million)

and produces a similarity report which needs to be interpreted by a staff member.

In this session, you will learn how to:

  • read a Turnitin similarity report
  • detect potential instances of plagiarism
  • configure Turnitin assignments to reduce false positives
  • spot methods used to trick Turnitin
  • spot potential instances of Contract Cheating.

Zoom link

You will receive the link to access this workshop via Zoom in your registration email.

Register for this event

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