Instructional Technology

MSUM / Instructional Technology / Turnitin @ MSUM  


Account Request

Faculty Basics

Student Basics

Student Rights

Turnitin.com

What is Plagiarism?

Resources

Training Presentation - Faculty

Training Presentation - Student

 
"Education is the art of making man ethical."

           - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel  

 


Student Rights: 

Frequently Asked Questions

Are student papers and information kept confidential?

  • Yes, MSUM’s license with Turnitin.Com specifies a Privacy Pledge in accordance with FERPA, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.

  • The only people to see the paper submitted by a student to this service are the STUDENT and the PROFESSOR to whom the paper is submitted. (See Turnitin Legal Document).

  • Due to the Privacy Pledge  and measures Turnitin has taken to secure this data, confidentiality for students is retained.

  What about concerns regarding student copyright?

  • The MSUM license with Turnitin.com also specifies that students retain copyright to their submitted papers and that the papers stored in Turnitin.com are stored solely for the purpose of plagiarism detection. They are not used by Turnitin.com for any other reason.

  • Turnitin used uncopyrightable facts about a paper – not the paper itself – to check other papers and electronic sources for matching text. "The proprietary Turnitin system makes a "fingerprint" of the work by applying mathematical algorithms to its content. The fingerprint is merely a digital code, which relays the unprotectable factual information that certain pre-defined content is present in the work." (Turnitin Legal Document).

  Does Turnitin make the decision about whether a paper is plagiarized?

  • The service does not detect plagiarism by itself. It checks submitted documents for text matches in a variety of proprietary databases. Any text matches that our system finds are then examined by faculty members in the form of Originality Reports. Faculty members of the institution, not Turnitin, determine whether plagiarism has occurred.

    For more information on students rights and Turnitin, consult Turnitin's Legal Document:  HTML Version  or PDF Version.


Always remember to log out when you have finished using Turnitin.com