Turnitin – Using Turnitin to Support Students’ Understanding of Plagiarism and Citation Use

Turnitin is an originality checking and text-matching software. It is designed to educate students on appropriate citation and reference techniques to prevent plagiarism. However, Turnitin also has some potential ethical and privacy concerns connected to its use. This workshop will cover when and why you might want to use Turnitin, what the privacy concerns are, how to enable it in Brightspace assignments and customize the various settings, and how to interpret the similarity reports.