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From the Turnitin company home page at http://turnitin.com, you can sign up to receive their monthly newsletter. The newsletter announces new features for all of their products as well as well as technical information such as maintenance windows and browser support.
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:
- There is now a shortcut from the InBox that will allow you to modify settings
- A progress bar will now indicate the progress of the submission of a zip file
The following technical information was published:
- Scheduled Maintenance Windows: Starting September 2009, there will be regularly scheduled maintenance windows on the first and the third Fridays of the month, from 11:30 pm to 3:30 am Pacific Time (US).
If instructors have set assignment due dates in these windows, they might want to consider changing them. We regret any inconvenience these scheduled maintenance windows may cause. For answers to questions that faculty, students or administrators may have about this, see the Help Center.
- Browser Support Update: As of August 1, 2009, Turnitin and WriteCycle now work best with Firefox (v.2+), Safari (v.2+) and Internet Explorer (v.7+); TurnItIn will no longer be providing support and fixes for earlier versions of Internet Explorer.
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.