Turnitin (Tii) is best known as a plagiarism detection service that is integrated with MyCourses. In reality, Tii is a suite of services/features including:
- Originality is used for plagiarism detection as well as a resource to teach students how to properly cite sources and avoid plagiarism
- Grademark gives instructors online grading and markup tools for student work submitted to Turnitin
- Peermark provides tools for peer evaluation of writing
- Draft Coach provides students with instant feedback on similarity, citations, and grammar as they write
Teaching & Learning with Turnitin
Turnitin integrates with the MyCourses’ Assignment Tool. Faculty can enable Turnitin services and features for each assignment. Based on the services and features enabled, faculty and students may be able to access originality scores, feedback on citations, and mark up student submissions in-line with text based on the assignment a student submits.
Via the MyCourses Content Tool, Peermark can be used to create a peer review experience to assist with the evaluation of student writing.