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From Turnitin:

Turnitin will be unavailable on Saturday July 11, 2009 from 10:00 am CDT to 10:00 pm CDT for routine system maintenance.

Turnitin recently hosted an online webinar focusing on plagiarism in school today. A recording of the webinar can be found below:

http://cts.vresp.com/c/?iParadigmsLLC/34c03e1e0b/cafd94723f/881ba46d2e/psid=2009-04-24.0834.C.0313347938535C5E6C3FBBBC6C3DEA.vcr

If you do not have Elluminate installed, you may need administrator access to update Java/Elluminate.

From Turnitin.com:

Turnitin will be unavailable on both Saturday, December 20th and Tuesday December 30th, from 11:00 AM to 7:00 PM CST for routine system and hardware maintenance and upgrades.

From Turnitin:

We are pleased to announce Turnitin Global with vastly IMPROVED and
EXPANDED handling of non-English languages!

Turnitin Global now handles text correctly in 31 languages in
addition to English:

Arabic, Catalan, Chinese (simplified and traditional), Croatian,
Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew,
Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian (Bokmal, Nynorsk),
Farsi, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak,
Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish

This means that papers submitted via global.turnitin.com will
generate an Originality Report with no question marks or odd
character strings replacing “special” characters.

This also means we are indexing many additional websites that contain
those languages against which we compare submitted papers.

To try this capability, you must sign in through global.turnitin.com
(using your regular login information).  Anything that is created or
submitted through global.turnitin.com will also be available in
www.turnitin.com (albeit with the current service’s text display
limitations).

By the end of October, this capability will be fully operational for
all Turnitin users without having to use global.turnitin.com.

Note that while we are in the process of translating the Turnitin
interface into many languages, it has not yet been translated to each
of the above languages.  Watch for additional announcements.

Note also that we do not translate the paper that is submitted in any
way (e.g. we don’t translate it to English and try to find more
matches).

From Turnitin:

Turnitin will be unavailable on Saturday, August 16th, 2008 from 11:00 AM to 7:00 PM CDT for routine system and network maintenance and upgrades.

Turnitin will be unavailable Friday, June 27th, 2008 from 9:00 PM  to 1:00 AM while the site undergoes critical system maintenance.

From Turnitin.com:

Turnitin will be unavailable on Saturday, April 5th, 2008 from 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM CDT for routine database maintenance and upgrades.

Below is an e-mail received from Turnitin about feature updates coming out Tuesday, December 4th.

“On Tuesday, December 4th we will be launching a few small updates for the Originality Report. These updates were based on feedback we have received from our users and include:

1. The ability to allow students to view Originality Reports on an assignment by assignment basis

Previously instructors had to set the preference to allow students to view Originality Reports on a class by class basis. Giving the instructors more flexibility in this option (by allowing it to be set assignment by assignment) allows instructors to use the service to fit the needs of their individual classes. This change will also bring the stand alone service more in line with the service offered in integration (instructors using Turnitin through Moodle, ANGEL, WebCT, Blackboard, ect. have had this option for some time now).

This option will be found under the advanced assignment options in the assignment creation screen.

2. Information on how many times a paper has been submitted to an assignment.

In the upper right corner of the Originality Report there will now be a field marked “Submitted:” followed by a number. The number will indicate the number of time the paper has been submitted to the assignment. In cases where instructors allow students to resubmit to the assignment (using the advanced assignment option to allow overwrites until the due date) this new informational field will give instructors the ability to monitor their students’ submission activity.

3. A lower match priority for matches to the student paper database

Many instructors have informed us that if there was a match between two student papers and a match for the same text to the internet, they would prefer to see the internet match first (as they believe the internet to be the most likely original source of the text). In the past there was no priority set on any database in our system (matches to internet matches were as likely to be displayed as matches to student papers). We have changed this so that if the same quality match for a section of text is found in both the internet database and the student paper database, we will display the match to the internet in the cumulative view of the Originality Report (both matches will still appear in the Single Source mode of the Originality Report)

4. If a match to a paper in one of the instructor’s own classes is found the source link will display the class, assignment, paper id, and author information

Previously if an instructor had an Originality Report with a match to a paper in his or her own class, the text of the matching paper would be displayed but the instructor would receive no indication of where the paper came from. This change will give the instructor information regarding the origin of the matching paper. Please note, this information will only be available for matches to papers in the instructor’s own classes; matches to papers in other instructors’ classes or in other institutions will not display any of this information. This information will not be displayed in the student view of the Originality Report (the text of the matching paper is also omitted from the student view of the report).

You and students may also notice a slightly updated look and feel in the Originality Report. The information panel and tool bar in the Originality Report has been slightly altered to appear more like the GradeMark information panel.”

FPCO has issued a ruling that resolved the potential FERPA violation that has restricted Turnitin use since September. There are, however specific conditions: Faculty may require students to submit a paper for review ONLY before the paper is submitted to the instructor. Once the paper has been submitted to the instructor, it becomes a part of the official student record and students may NOT be required to submit it. At this point, only the instructor may submit it, stripped of student identification, for review. Contact IMG if you have questions: 844-5181.