Make sense of the similarity report in Turnitin | 9 April

Turnitin is an online tool that helps prevent and detect plagiarism.

It works by comparing each submission against a database of:

• web pages (more than 62 billion)
• student papers (more than 734 billion)
• journal articles, periodicals and books (more than 165 million)

and produces a similarity report which needs to be interpreted by a staff member.  

In this 1 hour session, you will learn how to:

• read a Turnitin similarity report and detect potential instances of plagiarism
• configure Turnitin assignments to reduce false positives
• spot methods used to trick Turnitin
• spot potential instances of Contract Cheating