Introducing Students to Turnitin

What is Turnitin? • Text-matching software – It compares your written academic work to a database of other works to check if your work is original

• Online Marking – It enables better feedback via Grademark online marking and comments

• Moodle (Wattle) integration – Look for the Turnitin assignment icon 1

Key Messages • Turnitin can help you improve the academic integrity of your written assignments • The use of Turnitin is optional • A Turnitin introduction will be posted in the News Forum in the Wattle course • Help for Turnitin is online – http://online.anu.edu.au/turnitin 2

Turnitin Originality Reports • Use Turnitin to check early drafts of your assignments before final submission to assess and improve your writing • There is no ‘ideal’ percentage threshold in a Turnitin Originality Report For help with academic writing: Academic Skills and Learning Centre

For ANU Academic Integrity information http://students.anu.edu.au/aep/honesty.php 3