Turnitin
What is Turnitin?
Turnitin is a service that helps educators prevent plagiarism by detecting unoriginal content in student papers. In addition to acting as a plagiarism deterrent, it also has features designed to aid in educating students about plagiarism and the importance of proper attribution of any borrowed content.
Features
OriginalityCheck ®
Ensures original work by checking submitted papers against 20+ billion web pages, 220+ million student papers and leading library databases and publications.
AI Detection
Indicates an overall percentage of a document that was generated with an AI writing tool, such as ChatGPT, and highlights text segments that are suspected of being written by AI.
Disclaimers
Georgia Southern University instructors may utilize a plagiarism prevention technology in some of their course sections. Students may have the option of submitting papers online through a plagiarism prevention service or by allowing the instructor to submit hard copies of their papers. The papers may be retained by the service for the sole purpose of checking for plagiarized content in future student submissions.
How Turnitin Works
- An instructor creates a Turnitin assignment folder inside of a Folio course.
- Students submit their document to the assignment folder.
- Turnitin checks all submitted papers against an archive of internet documents, internet data, a repository of previously submitted papers, and a subscription repository of periodicals, journals, and publications.
- Turnitin creates an Originality Report that can be viewed by instructors and students, which identifies where the text within a student submission has matched another source.
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Last updated: 7/27/2023