Plagiarism and Academic Irregularity

The LTSU provide support and advice for the use of TurnitinUK for originality, and RefWorks for reference management.

TurnitinUK

Please refer to the Academic Standards and Quality Handbook > Section 17: Academic Appeals and Misconduct, where you'll find Academic Misconduct: Code of Practice (PDF) for university procedure. Also available is the school's A Framework for the Appropriate Use of Plagiarism Detection Software (MS Word)

TurnitinUK is an online service provided by JISC to allow Higher Education Institution staff to check for academic irregularity in uploaded student assessments. Text based assignments are checked:

• against each other
• against all other texts uploaded by students at other institutions
• against academic papers available on the web
• and against general web pages

This service aims to:

• Avoid Collusion
• Correct Referencing
• Deter deliberate cheating

Staff register classes, students & assignments and start and end dates of submissions. Staff have to be registered first (contact Jackie Brown in LLR - Boots Library) and then assign students, which are notified of being enrolled in the service.

The TurnitinUK Service is available at:

http://www.submit.ac.uk

Resources created by the Arts & Humanities Learning and Teaching Support unit (LTSU) for help with using TurnitinUK:

• Turnitinuk - Getting started (PDF 700kb - to download: right-click and "Save target as...")

  To enable the easy upload of a list of students names to TurnitinUk, there is now a "Student List (JISC csv)" file available in the VLP Module Tasks section, which produces student details in the correct format.

• Checking for Academic Irregularity with TurnitinUK (PDF 740kb - to download: right-click and "Save target as...")
• How to submit student work to the TurnitinUK Service (PDF 44kb - to download: right-click and "Save target as...") - Sending Work to the Service

The TurnitinUK (www.submit.ac.uk) web site has a full Instructor User Guide.

Further information about using a plagiarism detection service is available from the JISC PAS web site.