Guides
Academic Honesty and Turnitin
Student Tracking
The system automatically records every time you access the LMS, the amount of time you've spent on the system and the amount of time you’ve spent using each tool. In the context and environment of a Learning Management System, the only information that's being recorded is your point of participation.
Academic Integrity for Students - http://www.latrobe.edu.au/learning/integrity.html
Turnitin - http://wwwdev.latrobe.edu.au/text-match/students.html
Academic Honesty and Turnitin
Academic honesty is a fundamental principle in teaching, learning, research and scholarship. The University requires its academic staff and students to observe the highest ethical standards in all aspects of academic work and it demonstrates its commitment to these values by awarding due credit for honestly conducted scholarly work, and by penalising academic misconduct and all forms of cheating.
Academic Integrity Procedures (2010, p. 1 of 6).
At La Trobe University, we use a web-based text-matching system called Turnitin. Turnitin is a web-based text-matching software system which is used to teach students how to properly acknowledge quotations. Turnitin provides a report on any text matches. Turnitin makes no attempt to interpret the report nor to dictate action in response to the report, nor does access to the software, in itself, imply any requirement to act on the report. Those questions remain properly the responsibility of the University's academic processes.
Using Turnitin is part of La Trobe University's educational approach to minimise plagiarism and ensure the highest standards of academic honesty in assessable work. Students and lecturers can use Turnitin to check that quotations in student writing have been properly acknowledged.
Lectopia
Lectopia is a lecture capture and delivery system designed to record audio visual material from lectures and to make links to the recordings available from the LMS. This gives students the opportunity to revisit lectures and to listen to them in their own time. It’s also a valuable resource for students with timetable clashes and work/family commitments that make it difficult for them to attend all of their lectures.