Turnitin at the University of Wollongong

Turnitin is an electronic text matching system that compares text in a student assignment against electronic text

• on the publicly accessible Internet,
• in published works (including ABI/Inform, Periodical Abstracts, Business dateline, and electronic books),
• on the ProQuest and Gale commercial databases, and
• in every assignment previously submitted to Turnitin by students in universities all over the world, including assignments obtained from ‘paper mills’ (Internet sites which sell papers).

Turnitin provides a means of strengthening the implementation of the University’s policy on acknowledgement practice; however, equally if not more importantly, Turnitin can be used to assist in educating students about referencing and plagiarism.

This pdf resource explains how Turnitin works and how it is used at the University of Wollongong. It also includes links to resources for teaching students about referencing and plagiarism. Download the pdf resource from here.

For information required to create a new Turnitin Instructor/Teaching Assistant account:

1. Log on to staff Intranet 
2. From Home page, click Manage my eLearning
3. Under Turnitin, click Create a new Turnitin Instructor account