Turnitin is a plagiarism detection tool available to UMass Amherst instructors within Blackboard Learn. View specific instruction pages below, or the Instructor User Manual compiled by Turnitin. For information on plagiarism prevention and Academic Honesty at UMass Amherst, see the library Turnitin page. Grademark is a grading and document mark-up tool bundled with Turnitin, and also available to instructors.
Detect plagiarism in student work
Settings for Turnitin as plagiarism checker
Replace Blackboard assignment with Turnitin
Submit to Turnitin on behalf of a student
View and interpret originality reports
Teach students appropriate use of sources
Settings for Turnitin as teaching tool
Replace Blackboard assignment with Turnitin
/wiki/spaces/MAR/pages/14188843: an article by Jean Heitz at the University of Wisconsin-Madison describing best practices and reasons for using Turnitin
Adjust assignment settings
Edit Turnitin assignment dates
Edit Turnitin assignment options
Replace Blackboard assignment with Turnitin