Plagiarism: WebLearn and Turnitin

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Course Details and Schedule

This one-hour course discusses issues surrounding plagiarism. The Turnitin plagiarism detection service identifies pieces of text in students' work that match with existing electronic texts. It can be used for assessed essays and also for general formative purposes to improve student academic skills. You will have a chance to submit a sample document via the WebLearn integration with Turnitin.

See below for course schedule

Key topics

Overview of plagiarism
Using Turnitin via WebLearn
Using Turnitin directly
Understanding the originality report
Using Turnitin to improve academic integrity
Help and support available

Course information

Intended audience	This course is aimed at examiners, tutors and supervisors.
Prior knowledge	You need to be involved in supervising study. Not suitable for student self-submission of work.
Resources	Brief notes are supplied at no charge
Software	Browser: Internet Explorer 7 or Firefox
Format	Presentation with practical exercises
Where next?	Online course: Good practice in citation and the avoidance of plagiarism

Taught using:

Windows XP

Course provider: IT Learning Programme

Schedule

Frequency: Every term. Express an interest in future dates for this course.