TurnitinUK is a plagiarism detection and electronic assignment submission web-service that enables YSJ to carry out a comparison of students' work against electronic sources.  At York St John the service can be accessed via Moodle and it is a valuable support tool for staff and students in efforts to prevent and detect plagiarism. 

How can you use Turnitin?

TurnitinUK does not make decisions about the intention of unoriginal work, nor does it determine if unoriginal content is incorrectly cited or indeed plagiarised.  It simply highlights sections of text that have been found in other sources to allow you to make an evaluation.

Some of the ways it can be used at YSJU:

• You can freely and privately submit a piece of work for self-testing through our central plagiarism course area - the 'Develop your Academic Writing with Turnitin' area in Moodle.  Your tutor will have no access to work submitted through this module.
• Your may enable TurnitinUK within a particular module section in Moodle and encourage or require you to submit your work for electronic self-checking.  Your tutor will then be able to permit a final submission of your piece of work.  Tutors will need to enable students and staff to see originality reports.
• Your tutor may use a TurnitinUK assignment type to use the advanced online grading features (QuickMarks, voice comments, rubrics etc.).  It also syncs with an iPad app for offline marking on-the-go.
• If a tutor identifies a potential plagiarism case or extensive mis-citation, they may use TurnitinUK to review the work.  As per the YSJ Turnitin Policy, the originality report may be used as evidence to follow up through plagiarism disciplinary procedures.