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Turnitin is a plagiarism detection software that can be accessed through Moodle to check students’ work for plagiarism.

The Turnitin software used at Turnitin.com is already integrated into Moodle.  As a student, you can only access it once your lecturer has set up a Turnitin Assignment Submission within the module area in Moodle.

If you experience any problems with submitting assignments to Turnitin, please contact the CTEL helpdesk via email at moodle@setu.ie or via phone at 051 834114.

All training materials are available at the Turnitin.com website. Please note that the only options available to students are just the Originality report.

If the lecturer selected Use repository when setting up the assignment, then the assignment will be part of the Turnitin database.  This is necessary if you want other assignments to be compared to this assignment.  Please note that the copyright for the assignment still rests with the author.

It takes approximately one hour to check for an assignment when first uploaded.  Please note that results may be returned quicker than one hour depending on the volume of users.

An assignment that receives a high similarity rating indicates that the data contained within the assignment is similar to other sources (books, other assignments submitted worldwide, websites, databases, etc) checked by Turnitin.

If the lecturer selected the option to check against newspaper articles and books when setting up the assignment, then the assignments will be checked against newspaper articles and books that are available online. 

This site provides extensive detail on originality reports and how they can be interpreted by staff and students: https://guides.turnitin.com/01_Manuals_and_Guides/Instructor_Guides/Turnitin_Classic_(Deprecated)/Interpreting_the_Similarity_Report

Students will be shown how to log into Moodle and access module areas as part of induction.  However, they will not be shown how to use all features of Moodle as this may be overwhelming for the students.  In addition, different lecturers use Moodle in different ways so the lecturers are really best placed to show the students how to use Moodle.

It can be beneficial to students if they see a picture of lecturers and their fellow students in their modules. This picture will appear throughout your module area next to your name, e.g. next to your name on a forum post, etc.