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Due to disciplinary differences, and the fact that Turnitin only matches text, academic departments use Turnitin differently, or not at all. According to the LSE policy on the use of Turnitin, all academic departments, in which students engage with essay-based assessments, are required to have a local policy detailing how they use Turnitin.
Turnitin is used by most academic departments at LSE to check the whether work that is submitted by students contains text matches with other sources.
The LSE policy on the use of Turnitin requires that departments, in which students engage with essay-based assessments, allow students to view their similarity report for at least one formative assessment in every year of their studies. This is so students can use the report as a development tool to improve their academic writing. How frequently students are given such access is determined at department level and should be contained with the departmental policy on the use of Turnitin. For information on how to allow students access to their similarity reports, see the How to enable Turnitin similarity reports within Moodle assignment activities guide.
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It is possible to make similarity reports visible to students and this can be enabled when setting up Turnitin within a Moodle assignment.
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The ‘LSE Policy on the use of Turnitin’ requires that departments, in which students engage with essay-based assessments, allow students to view the similarity report for at least one formative assessment in every year of their studies. |
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Yes, Turnitin can be set up to allow students to see their similarity report for drafts submitted before the due date.
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The LSE policy on the use of Turnitin requires that departments, in which students engage with essay-based assessments, allow students to view their similarity report for at least one formative assessment in every year of their studies. |
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Section 21 of LSE’s conditions of registration (22/23 entry) states “all assessed coursework
(essays, projects, field reports, literature reviews, dissertations etc.) […] may be analysed by text matching software”.
In addition, the LSE policy on the use of Turnitin states, “it should be made clear to all students within each Department how Turnitin is used within the Department. This should include a rationale for the way in which it is used within the Department.” How departments communicate this with students may vary.
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Both services are run by the same company, but Turnitin is designed to support and check the work of taught students, and to enable teachers to grade these submission in class groups. iThenticate is designed to support professional academic writers and checks against a different database of resources when feeding back areas for improvement in a document.