Turnitin
Turnitin is a web-based plagiarism prevention service, class management tool, and digital grading system for faculty.
There are three ways to access Turnitin:
Integrated into Brightspace (the most common)
Outside of Brightspace/Directly via Turnitin
Turnitin Draft Coach
How To Access Turnitin
Turnitin can be accessed within your Brightspace Course. In the case that you need to access Turnitin outside of Blackboard, please contact OIT to get an access code.
For Faculty
Turnitin Basics for Brightspace covers the creation of a new assignment, how to provide feedback, and how to grade within Brightspace
If you are not a user of Brightspace, but would still like to use Turnitin in your courses, you may do so directly at the Turnitin website. Find out more: Turnitin Outside of Brightspace.
Turnitin Draft Coach is integrated into your Fisher Google Docs and allows you and your students to review documents before submitting them
Turnitin on your iPad covers how to use your iPad to access Turnitin.
For Students
Your instructor will provide directions as to how they expect you to submit via Turnitin. They may insert a link in Brightspace or they may create an assignment directly in Turnitin.
Prior to submitting an assignment, you can use Turnitin Draft Coach in Google Docs to check your paper for similarities, grammar issues, and citation errors.
Additional Support
Here are some additional resources that might be helpful as you use Turnitin.