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8/31/09 New features and technical information

The following new features were announced in the late August edition of The Turnitin News Page. These features will be implemented September 1, 2009:

The following technical information was published:

 

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.