The University subscribes to the Turnitin originality checking service. The service is provided for use at the discretion of all academic staff and is most appropriate for text-based work.
We have created a new Postgraduate account on the Turnitin.com website that will allow you to check your research paper/project/thesis/dissertation. You would need to use the credentials that were sent to you via campus messaging service or email us at the School for Graduate Studies & Research. Please identify yourself in the email and ensure that you give us your identification number, name and the programme your registered in.
A Turnitin Assignment will have this icon Turnitin icon next to the assignment title. Turnitin Assignments are generally located in the Assessments or Assignments section of Blackboard, when you click on this link you will see the assignment details and have access to the View/Complete link.
Turnitin is a text-comparison system which is available through Blackboard. When assignments are submitted to Turnitin, the text is compared with sources in the Turnitin database, which include websites, online journals, newspapers and e-books, as well as student work submitted either at Bristol or other institutions.
You may be asked to submit your work to your teacher through a tool called Turnitin. Turnitin is used to check the originality of papers and the correctness of citation practices in students' work.
The Turnitin plugin in Moodle supports tools for plagiarism prevention (Originality Checking), online grading and feedback to students (GradeMark), and peer review (PeerMark). Turnitin is used within Moodle’s Assignment, Forum, and Workshop activities.
Deakin University uses Turnitin as the program that allows you and/or your teacher to check whether there is any unoriginal material in your work by comparing it to a database of print and online materials. Any matching text is detailed in an originality report.
Students’ use of plagiarism1 software is educational, some scholars say.More than half of UK universities supply students with plagiarism detection software to boost their writing skills, despite fears it may aid cheating.