Turnitin (stylized as Turnitin) is an online plagiarism detection program operated by Turnitin, LLC, a subsidiary of Advance Publications in the United States.
It was founded in 1998 and offers licenses to colleges and high schools, which then use the software as a service (SaaS) website to verify submitted papers against its database as well as the content of other websites to detect plagiarism. The results may be used in formative assessment to assist students to learn to prevent plagiarism and improve their writing by identifying similarities with current sources.
Students may be asked to submit work to Turnitin as part of their course or class requirements. Some students have refused to submit because they believe that compulsory surrender implies a presumption of guilt. Some opponents claim that using this proprietary software breaches educational privacy and international intellectual-property regulations and that it commercializes students' work by permanently putting it in Turnitin's private equity firm database.
Functionality
The Turnitin program compares submitted papers to numerous databases using a proprietary algorithm to check for possible unoriginal content. It has license arrangements with significant academic proprietary databases and scans its own databases.
Database of student papers
Students' essays are saved in a database that is used to check for plagiarism. By finding matching text between papers, stops one student from using another's paper. In addition to student papers, Turnitin's database comprises a copy of the publicly available Internet, which is updated regularly by a web crawler. It also includes pages from books, periodicals, and journals that are commercial and/or copyrighted.
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Integration in the classroom
Typically, students post their papers directly to the site for professors to view. Turnitin.com also allows teachers to submit student papers as individual files, bulk uploads, or ZIP files. Teachers can also enable assignment-analysis features, which allow students to evaluate the system's "originality reports" before submitting their work. There is also a peer-review option.
Some virtual learning environments can be set up to integrate Turnitin, allowing students' work to be submitted for analysis automatically. The program is integrated with Blackboard, Moodle, ANGEL, Instructure, Desire2Learn, Pearson Learning Studio, Sakai, and Studywiz.
Application for admissions
Kira Talent, a Turnitin partner program, began evaluating admissions application materials in 2019.
