Turnitin

Turnitin is a plagiarism detection and academic integrity tool used to check the originality of written work. Turnitin helps students ensure their work is original and properly cited, and it helps instructors maintain academic integrity.

All courses that use Turnitin are required to include the below statement in their course outline: 

Ontario Tech University and faculty members reserve the right to use electronic means to detect and help prevent plagiarism. Students agree that by taking this course all assignments are subject to submission for textual similarity review by Turnitin.com. Assignments submitted to Turnitin.com will be included as source documents in Turnitin.com's restricted access database for the purpose of detecting plagiarism in such documents and to generate purely statistical data from such content for product development and improvement. The instructor may require students to submit their assignments electronically to Turnitin.com or the instructor may submit questionable text on behalf of a student. The terms that apply to Ontario Tech University’s use of the Turnitin.com service are described in the Turnitin Services Privacy Policy and Turnitin End-User License Agreement available on the Turnitin website.

Students who do not wish to have their work submitted to Turnitin.com must provide their instructor a signed Turnitin.com Assignment Cover sheet when submitting an assignment.

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Resources

• What is Turnitin.com?
• Turnitin Resources for Students
• File uploads
• Submitting an assignment in Turnitin
• Resubmitting an assignment
• The Similarity Report
• Assignment cover sheet (May 2021)