Turnitin
Turnitin is a plagiarism detection tool used to check the originality of student submissions and ensure academic integrity.
Your academics may enable Turnitin for LMS assignments and quizzes in the LMS.
Submit assessments through the LMS only
Submit Turnitin assessments through the assessment submission link in your LMS subject. Do not submit assessments through the Turnitin website.
Do not submit assessments through the Turnitin website. All assessments requiring Turnitin must be submitted directly within your subject in the LMS. Failure to submit through the correct platform could result in your assessment not being properly processed and causing issues with plagiarism detection.
Please contact your Subject Coordinator if you have any questions regarding the submission of your assessments.
What is Turnitin?
Turnitin is a web-based text-matching software system which can be used to assist in helping you learn how to properly acknowledge quotations. Using Turnitin is part of our educational approach to minimise plagiarism and ensure standards of academic honesty in assessable work.
Turnitin Resubmission Policy
If you submit the same assessment to Turnitin more than three times, a 24-hour delay will apply before a new Similarity Report can be generated for each additional resubmission.
Accepted file types
You can submit files in the following format to Turnitin:
- MS Word (.doc and .docx)
- WordPerfect (.wpd)
- Portable Document Format (text based) (.pdf)
- HTML (.html)
- Rich Text (.rtf) and Plain Text (.txt)
Apple Pages (.pages) documents are unsupported.
Whilst you may not receive an error message when submitting a pages document to Turnitin, you will not receive a similarity score.
Viewing your Turnitin submissions
You can view your submissions in Turnitin by accessing your assessments tasks through the LMS. If you want to keep a copy of your submissions or similarity reports, download them before you lose access to the subject.
Additional information and resources
The official Turnitin website can provide you with a variety of information about how Turnitin works. Here are some links to some articles which might prove helpful to you: