About Turnitin
5/8/08 More Turnitin News
Turnitin has released a beta version of their proposed enhancements to the Plagiarism Prevention Module. Faculty are invited to try the new version and provide feedback to Turnitin. To learn more about participating in the beta test and to see some of the new features, join us for a presentation in the Adobe Connect meeting room at http://breeze.psu.edu/turnitin on Thursday, May 15 at 1:00pm or Friday, May 16 at 10:00am. No pre-registration is required -- just drop in, listen, watch, and "chat" your questions.
Before participating in the Adobe Connect meeting, please read through the Getting Started information at http://meeting.psu.edu/quickstart and test your connection in advance with our generic test meeting room at https://breeze.psu.edu/testmeetingroom/. There is also an open demo meeting you could attend on Tuesday, May 13 (see Adobe Connect Demonstration Sessions for May 2008 for more information). If you have questions or need help with Adobe Connect, send email to breeze@psu.edu.
Turnitin Announcement
On Tuesday, December 4, Turnitin launched a few small updates for the Originality Report. These updates were based on feedback they received from users. Read more about the updates...
Use Your Access Account ID and Password
Penn State community members are able to log in to Turnitin.com using their Access Account ID and password at http://turnitin.psu.edu. If you are already logged in to WebAccess, you will go directly to your Turnitin profile.
For accounts created prior to August 2006: If you used a different email account as your Turnitin ID when you originally created your account, you will need to change your Turnitin User ID to match your Penn State Access Account ID at Turnitin.com before logging in.
Questions or problems? Please email us at turnitin@psu.edu.
What is Turnitin.com?
Turnitin.com ( http://turnitin.com ) is a Web-based plagiarism detection and prevention system owned by Turnitin.com, Inc., to which Penn State has a subscription. Turnitin.com can be used as a means to teach students how to work with sources and to raise awareness of paraphrasing and quoting skills in order to avoid plagiarism.
Flyer for Turnitin at Penn State (PDF)
How can instructors at Penn State obtain an account?
Please contact us at Turnitin@psu.edu for information on how to create an account with Turnitin. Accounts are limited to staff, Graduate Assistants, and faculty who are actually teaching a course and only "...psu.edu" e-mail addresses will be acknowledged at this address.
After you have used this resource, we would appreciate hearing from you about your experience.
Please complete the Penn State Turnitin Feedback Form.
iStudy for Success! Module on Academic Integrity, Plagiarism,
and Copyright
An iStudy for Success! module (http://istudy.psu.edu/modules.html)
has been created that addresses the issues of academic integrity, plagiarism,
and copyright in the Penn State community. The content of this module has been
reviewed by the Academic Integrity committees at various colleges and locations
throughout the Penn State community as well as by Judicial Affairs, and is
appropriate for use in all courses to address academic integrity and related
issues and consequences.