TurnItIn for Educators is a website that helps support academic integrity in schools. Teachers can detect plagiarized content with the world’s most effective plagiarism detection software. Using forensic linguistic analysis and Natural Language Processing (NLP), TurnItIn can determine if learners are writing their own papers or using a third party. The website also provides professional development resources for educators to improve the feedback they provide for learners and lesson plans to use with learners to build integrity skills.

Website: https://www.turnitin.com/

What Users Love About the App

“Great service to students who are honest, sincere and hardworking. Great service to educational community of teachers and students by fair and automated grading.”

“I love this tool as does my department. It serves its purpose well. I really like the ease of some of the basic tenets of the program and in many cases it has helped my students learn from the feedback provided through the program.”

“As a teacher, it saves me a lot of time when marking, once you create your comments and rubrics. The option to do peer assessment is great, as it provides me information if they understand the rubric and how they have been assessed. The feedback you provide to students is very detailed, clear and simple, as it’s basically dragging comments (previously done) where need it, or make/add new comments.”

“I really like the product overall. I think that Turnitin gives students and families an opportunity to see what it academic expectations are. The tools are time-saving and applicable to all teachers – as we all need to be writing!”

“This one is pretty straight-forward. I have students turn in digital copies of their written papers to check for plagiarized content. I also provide corrections and comment on their papers. We use this website often, every time students need to turn in a paper. It is very good at catching students who plagiarize or copy and paste content from websites.”

What Users Dislike About the App

“Worst service. Constantly down despite the status being “operational”. For what i imagine it cost for this service, I’m sure they can pay some competent programmers to build their software and websites… it’s completely frustrating, wish I had a choice NOT to use them.”

“I am using it for the first time for distance peer-editing, and my students are having TONS of technical issues. They are getting error messages left and right, and they are consistently told they cannot edit a second paper, even though I set up the Peermark assignment to require them to edit two papers.”

“Terrible software! Got an automatic failure in one of my classes because Turnitin said I plagiarized the COVER PAGE of my very last paper and quotes that were paraphrased and cited properly were flagged as plagiarism.”

“As a plagiarism checker, the software works very well. However, the software to grade the papers constantly crashes. And customer service is of NO help.”

“I was shocked when I received the result provided by the software. Some words are unavoidable and is common used in certain subject but ended up it shows a high percentage of plagiarism.”