Turnitin reports can prompt students to reconsider rephrasing arguments which are too close to the original, i.e. This can help students recognise and prevent plagiarism and increase their understanding of academic integrity.

The LSE policy on the use of Turnitin requires that Departments (in which students engage with essay-based assessments) allow students access to their Turnitin similarity report and score (%) for at least one of their formative essay-based assessments for every year of their studies. Why Turnitin?Įden Digital recommend that you allow students to check their own drafts for citing and referencing mistakes and omissions, eg accidental uncredited passages of text. Similarity reports will be produced for all student submissions to this assignment, and will be shown in Moodle next to the submissions. In your Moodle course (virtual classroom) you can create an Assignment for individual student submissions and set up Turnitin within an assignment.

Using Turnitin in Moodle enables students and teachers to view similarity reports and scores directly from within Moodle. Turnitin’s similarity check produces a similarity report and a score (%), which can be used as part of a process to monitor for potential plagiarism. Turnitin is a service that matches text from student assignments against its extensive databases of previously submitted student coursework, websites and academic papers and other online resources.