UPDATE: Turnitin has completed an upgrade of their software for the Fall 2008 semester. The documentation to the right has been updated to reflect the changes in the software.

Turnitin is a plagiarism prevention system provided through the web. All you need is Internet access to use the system. Students' papers are checked by Turnitin's in-house copy of the Internet (including public Internet, ProQuest, Periodical Abstracts, Business Dateline, and ABI Inform) and millions of submitted papers to Turnitin.

Students submit papers in one of the following formats MS Word, WordPerfect, PDF, rtf, txt, HTML, and PostScript. The papers are immediately checked for plagiarism. A detailed report is available for the instructor to view. Any text found to be unoriginal is underlined, color-coded and linked to its original source. The report also includes the percentage of the paper that appears to be plagiarized and provides a tab with all matching sources in the paper.

If you have technical difficulties, you may contact Turnitin at http://turnitin.com/help. Be specific in the description of the issue and include that you are using Turnitin with Blackboard 7.3.

For immediate technical assistance, contact:

Julie Wolfe
Instructional Support Specialist
Blackboard Administrator
jwolfe2@bloomu.edu
570-389-5375