CELTIC

Have you heard about Turnitin yet? It is recognized worldwide as the standard in online plagiarism prevention. turn itin's products stimulate originality in student work, improve student writing and research skill, and save valuable instructor time. Turnitin makes it easy to identify students who submit unoriginal work, and it is a powerful deterrent to stop plagiarism before it starts.

How does it work? All work submitted to Turnitin is checked in a matter of minutes against three constantly growing databases of content: : a current and extensively archived copy of the publicly accessible Internet (more than 5 billion pages updated at a rate of 40 million pages per day); millions of published works, including the ProQuest commercial databases, ABI/Inform, Periodical Abstracts, Business Dateline, and tens of thousands of electronic books; and millions of student papers already submitted to Turnitin.

Is it hard to submit papers and see if they’ve been plagiarized? No, it is a very easy procedure. You can submit papers by uploading files where you think duplication has occurred or you can submit all the papers. You can even have students submit their own papers electronically to Turnitin. An “originality report” is sent back to you, highlighting text that matches the databases mentioned above and indicating the source.

Iona College has a college-wide license for Turnitin and the Academic Deans are eager to have all departments utilize this anti-plagiarism software platform. You are encouraged to visit Turnitin.com to learn more about this powerful, time-saving tool waiting to be a benefit to you. Please consider attending a workshop at CELTIC, or call Diana (x2626) or Callie (x2227) to set up a one-on-one 15 minute demonstration. You’ll be impressed

Turnitin Tips

1. If you have forgotten your password, you need to click on password help link on the upper right side of the homepage screen to reset password. CELTIC cannot assist you in this; you need a new password from Turnitin.

2. Students should call or go to Help Desk at Ryan Library if they have questions or problems with submitting papers to Turnitin.

*Faculty can call or come to CELTIC for any questions or clarifications on Turnitin (or anything else).

Getting Started (link to Turnitin.com instructional video)

Instructor User Guide

Originality Report (link to Turnitin.com instructional video)

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