If students are registered as a distance learner, there is a Turnitin Tool Distance which should be included in their module list. Students can sign up for a workshop on the Student Skills Hub or use the Turnitin Training box on the Yorkshare VLE 'Home' tab. Open workshopsĮvery Wednesday at 12.30pm. There are three options: Department workshopsĭepartments can contact the Academic Integrity Resource Manager to organise workshops for specific cohorts of students, eg all first year year undergrads or all taught postgrads. In order to gain access to Turnitin students must attend a one-hour Turnitin workshop (delivered by a trained PGWT) and pass a short test. Turnitin student workshopsĪll students have the opportunity to access Turnitin text-matching software to help develop writing skills and improve the integration of source material into assignments. If staff have the basic understanding of Turnitin, they can attend a more advanced workshop which looks in depth at a using Turnitin to analyse Originality Reports, this will help to highlight common problems with referencing, paraphrasing and secondary referencing that students have. It will also clarify the approach taken to the use of Turnitin at the University of York, outline the process by which the University manages student access to Turnitin and how staff can use the Turnitin ethically with student groups. The workshop will explain Turnitin's capabilities in assessing the originality of assignments and allow colleagues to view examples of the Originality Reports produced by Turnitin with discussion about how such reports can be interpreted. Also, if departments wish to have a specific workshop for their staff, this can be arranged. There are two one hour workshops available to staff which run at various dates throughout the year.

Using Turnitin Presentation (MS PowerPoint, 2,917kb).

If you cannot find a Turnitin module in your VLE Module list, email enquire about access.

Staff can access Turnitin through their Yorkshare VLE.

We recommend that departments offer Turnitin workshops for students in tandem with Academic Integrity and Referencing workshops.

We offer workshops to staff and students to improve the formative and summative use of Turnitin in the academic writing process. Turnitin is the main text-matching software used at the University of York (SafeAssign is also available).

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