Turnitin Website at SDSU

Turnitin.com

Turnitin.com is a plagiarism detection service available to the faculty at San Diego State University. Students submit their papers electronically, and then Turnitin compares the content of those papers to over a billion other papers and documents. Whenever similarities between a student's paper and an existing document are found, Turnitin highlights those similarities, providing the faculty with an annotated document showing both the student's paper and the original source. For more information about the software visit http://www.turnitin.com.

Requesting a Turnitin.com Faculty Account

Faculty at SDSU who wish to use Turnitin.com will need to attend an ITS training workshop or visit the ITS Faculty Room in AH 1109 to pick up a packet of materials. For more information, contact ITS Faculty Room at (619) 594-1348.

Support and Training Material

Turnitin Training Workshops at ITS

Instructional Technology Services offers free, two-hour, hands-on training workshops that demonstrate how faculty can successfully integrate Turnitin.com into their teaching. For more information, please visit http://its.sdsu.edu/turnitin/schedule.htm

SDSU Policies

• Academic Senate - Handling Cases of Suspected Plagiarism (PDF)
• Center for Student Rights and Responsibilities - Reporting a case of suspected plagiarism to Judicial Procedures Office

External Resources

Turnitin.com - Has many research resources and tips for educators and students. (http://www.turnitin.com)

Detecting and Preventing Classroom Cheating: Promoting Integrity in Assessment
by Gregory J. Cizek -Just published by Corwin Press -- part of the Experts in Assessment series edited by Thomas R. Guskey and Robert J. Marzano

The Cat-and-Mouse Game of Plagiarism Detection -Colleges provide professors with new online tools to give them the upper hand http://chronicle.com/free/v47/i43/43a02601.htm

Probing For Plagiarism In The Virtual Classroom
Source: Syllabus
Has the growth of online education made it difficult for educators to ensure that the student who earns the credit for the course is the one who actually did the work?
http://www.distance-educator.com/dnews/?name=News&file=article&sid=8955

Academic Integrity Resources
Source: USD Ethics Institute
Excellent videos that explain some of the latest research in this area, as well as links to university honor codes.
http://ethics.acusd.edu/Resources/academicIntegrity/

Anti-Plagiarism Strategies for Research Papers by Robert Harris.
http://www.virtualsalt.com/antiplag.htm

Is cheating getting worse?
Source: Chronicle of Higher Ed
Colloquy Live: An online discussion with Donald L. McCabe, one of the founders of the Center for Academic Integrity and a professor of organization management at Rutgers University at Newark, about online cheating. This colloquy is about the impact of the rapid growth of the Internet and it's relationship to a perceived rise in cheating.
http://chronicle.com/colloquylive/2001/07/cheat/