Reading Time: 4 minutesLast post, we talked about the new Turnitin Clarity features, what Clarity is, and how to use it. Even if you use Turnitin (either the standard assignment type or Clarity), you can still use Canvas’s SpeedGrader and rubrics for grading. SpeedGrader will still give you access to all of Turnitin’s reports and information about the submission – you just need to know where to look. When you open a Turnitin assignment, you’ll see this kind of table with submission information. Students name their submissions, and you can see that title directly under the student’s name. You can also see the submission date and time information, then there’s the “Grade” column (which you can just ignore – that’s for grading…
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Introduction to Turnitin Clarity
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis year, faculty has access to a new Turnitin feature – Turnitin Clarity – in addition to the standard Turnitin checker. Clarity gives you a little more information about your students’ writing process by requiring students to write directly into the tool in Canvas (students cannot upload a file in Clarity). Because students are writing directly in the tool, you can see additional information such as the amount of time students spent writing, the number of sessions they used to write, what sections of text students copied/pasted in, as well as a timeline recording of edits made to their submission. As you review the flags and data provided by…
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Preparing for Finals: How Turnitin and Proctoring Exams Can Help
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe’re quickly approaching the end of the semester, so it’s time to make sure you have all the info you need to finish strong. Today we’re going to be talking about finals, and make sure you check out our post about reviewing your gradebook and submitting your grades as you prepare to do that. Because of the unique challenges of this year, your finals may look different from the norm. Whether you’re having your students write a final paper or take an exam, here’s a few features to consider as you make your plans. 1. Use Turnitin for written final projects Turnitin integrates seamlessly into Canvas assignments – you only need to select “Turnitin” from the drop-down…
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Turnitin Adds AI Writing Indicator to Similarity Report
Reading Time: 3 minutesIt’s no secret that ChatGPT’s popularity is growing. And plagiarism detecting tools are aware of that – and the need to adjust their offerings to help identify when student work may have been supplemented or entirely created by AI. Turnitin recently announced that it will now display a score to instructors within the Similarity Report to indicate what percentage of a paper is highly likely to be generated by AI. Turnitin is quick to say that their detection isn’t foolproof and the percentage displayed “should not be used as a definitive measure of misconduct or punitive tool.” The AI percentage is presented to inform instructors and give…
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ChatGPT: The New Frontier
Reading Time: 2 minutesSitting at my stand-up desk, I mused about the beginning of this post. Thwack! The idea came to me like a bug playing tag with my windshield on a South Dakota interstate in the middle of June. I would use ChatGPT, a freshly minted artificial intelligence (AI) chat robot. I asked Siri to play the theme from the movie Inception and carefully steered my browser to http://chat.openai.com. With Hans Zimmers’ electronic sound garden in the background, I placed my cursor in the chat box and typed, “Write a 300 word introduction to Servant Teaching.” ChatGPT began working on the query and produced, word-by-word, six paragraphs. I will…
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TurnItIn: Feedback Studio Updates and Contract Cheating
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe’ve talked about TurnItIn before in our Three Tips for Accurate Similarity Report Assessment, where we discussed how to efficiently set up TurnItIn to easily interpret the Similarity Report. Today we’re going to look at some updates to the tool which make TurnItIn even more robust and useful. TurnItIn now flags replaced or hidden characters as well as equips instructors to address suspicions that a student didn’t write a submitted paper. Feedback Studio Flags This new section of the Feedback Studio marks items that you should review. A Flag does not guarantee a problem – it just identifies an item that warrants your attention. You can select…
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TurnItIn: Three Tips for Accurate Similarity Report Assessment
Reading Time: 2 minutesCedarville University (CU) provides all faculty and students access to TurnItIn to help improve writing and prevent plagiarism. TurnItIn accepts user documents and compares them to material located on the Internet and in TurnItIn’s document repository. After the documents are compared, TurnItIn produces the Similarity Report which shows the parts of a student’s paper that are similar to other sources. Here are three tips to help you read the Similarity Report. Tip 1: Familiarize yourself with what Canvas and TurnItIn can do Get up to speed with all of the functionality the Canvas and TurnItIn integration has to offer by viewing or downloading the Canvas Plagiarism Framework…