Turnitin Draft Coach

Turnitin Draft Coach (Instructors)

TWU's Academic Integrity policy reflects the university's pledge to champion and defend long-standing values of research ethics, personal integrity, and academic honesty. While students have the primary responsibility for being academically honest, level one and two violations of the Academic Integrity Policy reported to the Office of Civility and Community Standards are viewed primarily as "teaching opportunities." 

The University subscribes to Turnitin, a web-based anti-plagiarism software service, which may be used by students or their instructors to compare the text of writing assignments to an extensive electronic database. While Turnitin is often used as a plagiarism checker providing summative feedback. Turnitin Draft Coach is used as formative feedback encouraging students to revise their written materials with the goal of improving learning through informed instruction. Turnitin's Draft Coach works in Microsoft Word online to help students correct any accidental plagiarism, citations, and grammar issues before submitting their work and avoiding violations of the Academic Integrity Policy.

Turnitin Disrupting Plagiarism Resources

The Turnitin Disrupting Plagiarism handouts and guides give instructors and students a more in-depth view of the writing process and reviewing similarity reports. Pick and choose the resources you want to download and use in your Canvas courses.

• Before writing – Turnitin suggests starting from the teaching guide. Use guided notes which will help students avoid plagiarism.

• During writing – Students need different kinds of support. Turnitin includs a lesson presentation that discusses different reach strategies. Research planning worksheets can help students keep track of and organize their research projects.

• After writing – This process usually takes place when we grade students' papers. Use the similarity report to review what the score means, how to use the results, and what conversations to have with students based on the information.

Support Options

1. Contact an Instructional Designer to design learning activities for students or talk about effective ways to interact with students using Turnitin in your Canvas courses. 

2. Canvas Support will be available 24/7 by phone, live chat, or email through the Help menu within Canvas after you have logged in. For more information see How to Contact Canvas Support.

3. If you are unable to log in, please contact the Technology Service Desk at 940-898-3971 or servicedesk@twu.edu for assistance.