What is Turnitin?

• Text-matching software– It compares your written academic work to a

database of other works to check if your work is original

• Online Marking– It enables better feedback via Grademark

online marking and comments

• Moodle (Wattle) integration – Look for the Turnitin

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Key Messages

• Turnitin can help you improve the academic integrity of your written assignments

• A Turnitin introduction will be posted in the News Forum in the Wattle course

• Help for Turnitin is online– http://online.anu.edu.au/turnitin

• The use of Turnitin is optional

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Turnitin Originality Reports

• Use Turnitin to check early drafts of your assignments before final submission to assess and improve your writing

• There is no ‘ideal’ percentage threshold in a Turnitin Originality Report

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For help with academic writing:Academic Skills and Learning Centre

For ANU Academic Integrity information

http://students.anu.edu.au/aep/honesty.php