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May 2024: Updates to the LSE policy on the use of Turnitin
- Eoin Meade
Education Committee recently (March 2024) approved changes to the wording of some of the principles (1,4 and 5) set out in the policy. These changes clarify and strengthen the principles. The committee also endorsed a series of recommendations contained within a review of the policy. These require departmental action.
Action required: changes to departmental policies
The wording changes in the policy made it necessary to amend Appendix 2: Template Turnitin Statement and Student Agreement. If your departmental Turnitin policy uses the wording in Appendix 2, you will need to amend it accordingly.
The following paragraph:
Students should be aware that where Turnitin is used within the Department, it is applied universally (i.e. to all submissions within a specific assessment or not at all - blanket use). However, where Turnitin is not used, it is acceptable for a marker to request that an individual student’s paper is uploaded to Turnitin if they have serious concerns and suspicions of academic misconduct. Equally, a marker can request that all students’ submissions within a cohort are uploaded to Turnitin if they suspect unacceptable collaboration (collusion) within the cohort.
is to be shortened to:
Students should be aware that where Turnitin is used within the Department, it is applied universally (i.e. to all submissions within a specific assessment or not at all - blanket use).
Action required: changes to departmental practice
Education Committee also endorsed a series of recommendations regarding practice in the use of Turnitin. These relate to roles within departments, communicating departmental policies and support for students:
Roles within departments
Departments should revise the role of Professional Services Staff in the processing of Turnitin similarity scores to ensure it falls in line with Principle 2 of the LSE policy on the use of Turnitin.
Communicating departmental policies
Departments must clearly and proactively share their Turnitin policy with students.
Every Moodle course should include relevant links to the Department’s Turnitin policy and support available. This year, a General Information section was created in Moodle courses to host either a departmental or course policy on the use of AI. Departments could add their Turnitin policy to this section with a link to the policy also added to any assessment sections on the course.
Departments should promote and circulate their departmental Turnitin policy amongst staff.
Support for students
Departments must clearly and proactively signpost students to LSE LIFE’s Academic Integrity module. This module can be found in both LSE LIFE’s Prepare to learn at LSE (undergraduates) and Prepare to learn at LSE (postgraduates) Moodle courses. If you wish to provide a link to the module, please ensure you are linking to the module within the appropriate course. Please contact eden.digital@lse.ac.uk if you would like students to be automatically enrolled on these courses.
Action required: update any links to the LSE policy on the use of Turnitin
The policy has been updated and is now hosted on the School’s Policies and Procedures page. If you have previously linked to the policy, please update these links so they point to the current version of the policy.
Action required by a minority: develop a departmental policy
Some departments have yet to developed their local policy on the use of Turnitin, as required by the LSE policy on the use of Turnitin. If this is the case, please contact your departmental advisors in the Eden Centre who can support you in doing so.
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