It is integrated with Blackboard, so it can be easily incorporated in an online submission and marking workflow.It can play a part in helping to deter and detect plagiarism, and provides a systematic, quick and easy way for staff to identify matching text.It can support academic integrity, helping students to improve their writing, and reinforcing appropriate ways to use and cite source material.Turnitin also includes Feedback Studio (previously called Grademark) for online marking and Peermark for peer review. For further information on academic integrity see the University policy on academic integrity. It is most effectively used as part of an overall strategy for supporting academic integrity, including for example - raising student awareness, supporting development of study skills, and considering what forms of assessment may reduce opportunities for plagiarism. The system can also be used formatively to help students develop their academic writing. Once matching text has been flagged up by the system, academic staff can then determine if the content has been used inappropriately. A similarity report is automatically produced, which highlights any text matching a source in the database and provides links to the sources of these matches. When assignments are submitted to Turnitin, the text is compared with sources in the Turnitin database, which include websites, online journals, newspapers and e-books, as well as student work submitted either at Bristol or other institutions. Turnitin is a text-comparison system which is available through Blackboard. The University has switched to a new Turnitin integration with Blackboard, called Turnitin LTI, from September 2022.

Transition to new Turnitin LTI integration in Blackboard

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