Reasons foe using Turnitin

2.  150+ million archived student papers
 90,000+ journals, periodicals & books
 1+ million active instructors
 14+ billion web pages crawled
 10,000 educational institutions
 20+ million licensed students
 126 countries
 11500 student submissions from UWS
students 2010/11

3.  More time in front of screen – H&S etc
 Institution machines not fit for task
 Institution network not fit for task
 Browser not fit for task
 External examiner unwilling to cooperate
 Only one file per assignment
 No colour coding for different markers
 Only certain file types (MS
Word, WordPerfect, PostScript, PDF, HTML, RTF
and plain text)
 Regulations not in tune e.g. special
needs, feedback release date and grade release
date, second marker restrictions

4.  Don’t need to print
 Don’t need to come on campus
 Get confirmation of submission
 Get automatic feedback on academic writing
 Get readable feedback
 Get more feedback
 Get feedback more quickly
 Restricts dishonest students from gaining an
unfair advantage

5.  Reduces plagiarism and collusion
 Improves academic writing
 Reduces student gaining double credit
 No paper
 Everything in one place so easy tracking
 Speedier marking with stock feedback
 Speedier marking with rubrics
 Reduced logistical issues sending papers to
campuses, externals etc
 Reduced risk – lost papers, disagreements on
submission
 Access with any Internet connection

6.  No staff time spent collecting submissions
 No staff time spent checking submissions
have been made
 No time spent posting papers around the
campuses
 No time spent sending and receiving papers
 Reduced space for storing past papers
 All submissions can be stored not just
samples

7.  Immediate access to submissions
 No paper
 Choose any submissions to examine

8.  Staff experience
 Student Experience
 Setting an assignment
 Checking originality – adjusting the filters
 Marking using Grademark
 Using a rubric
 Intro to Peermark