What is Turnitin?
TurnItIn is a service that matches text from student assignments against its extensive databases of previously submitted student coursework, websites and academic papers. Turnitin produces a similarity report and a score (%) of matched text.
Turnitin is a text matching tool, not a plagiarism detection tool.
Turnitin provides a useful indicator to markers of the extent of matched text within a document, but it cannot determine what those matches mean. It is no replacement for academic knowledge and judgment in determining cases of academic misconduct/plagiarism.
How does Turnitin work?
Turnitin can be enabled when setting up a Moodle Assignment activity. If Turnitin has been enabled, when students submit work to an assignment activity, it will automatically be submitted to Turnitin.
Turnitin will check submitted work for against its databases and produce a similarity report and score (%). When the similarity report is ready, the percentage score will show in the submissions table of the Moodle assignment. Clicking on the percentage score icon will open up the similarity report in Turnitin’s Feedback Studio. Here, you can review the similarity report and identif text matches to outside sources such as the current and archived Internet, journal articles and previously submitted student papers. Turnitin will then produce an Originality report which will detail all the matches.
To ensure you don’t experience issues when accessing Turnitin we recommend that you use Chrome, Firefox or Safari (on a Mac) and stay up to date with the latest versions.
Other pages in this section, include:
LSE’s policy on the use of Turnitin
Turnitin FAQs