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Academic Integrity & Turnitin: Turnitin

Turnitin instruction and discussion

What is Turnitin?

Turnitin is a text matching software designed to support academic integrity and help students avoid plagiarism.

Once an assignment is submitted through Turnitin it will be compared with a huge database of:

  • previously submitted work
  • billions of webpages
  • documents like periodicals, journals, and publications

Instances of text flagged as similar or matching to other sources will be shown in a similarity report.

AI generated text

The similarity report includes an AI writing indicator. This shows a percentage of the document that may have been generated by AI technology such as ChatGPT. It is then up to the lecturer to decide how to interpret that result.

The Turnitin website has lots of information on  AI writing detection.

Turnitin Instructions for Staff

These links will take you to the Moodle Help Guides created by Learning Environments.

Access and Navigate Assignments

Access and view the Similarity Report

Feedback and marking

Setting up a Turnitin activity (VET)

Setting up a Turnitin activity (HE)

 

For help with Turnitin submit a ticket through the Learning Environments service portal.

Referencing Support

Referencing Fundamentals Library Guide

The ideal guide for beginners.

  • Why you should reference

  • What types of materials you must reference

  • In-text citations, reference lists and bibliographies

Online Referencing Tool

Use the Online Referencing Tool to help create accurate citations in both Harvard and APA7 styles.

At Melbourne Polytechnic two styles of referencing are used: Harvard Style, and APA7 Style.

Check with your teacher to find out which style is used for your studies.

Get Help

Contact the MP Library for help with Turnitin.

Phone: 9269 1349

Emaillibrary@melbournepolytechnic.edu.au

Library Chat: bottom right corner of this page