Our guidance for Turnitin in says:
"2. Purposes
The software will be used for the following three purposes:
(i) As a developmental tool to inform and educate students in scholarly writing and
referencing practices in higher education;
(ii) As an aid to the detection of plagiarism where an individual student is suspected by
a member of academic staff; and
(iii) To monitor the incidence of plagiarism, as appropriate
The detection software should mainly be used to develop scholarly writing and referencing
practices among students. Students should be offered the opportunity to check their own
draft text-based assignment using Turnitin. " ...
So, though we don't have a generic area for students to use, they are encouraged to use it to learn (generally on a unit basis). That does, of course, lead to some problems if Lecturer A encourages them to do that, but Lecturer B only wants a final submission - students put it in Turnitin in the "wrong" section, so they appear to have self plagiarised.
Emma
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>>> On 11 March 2010 at 11:49, Christopher Tofallis <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> My faculty is considering permitting students unrestricted access to Turnitin
> for
> any piece of work.
> That is, it will not be up to individual tutors to permit access for their
> own
> modules.
> There is a fear that students may learn to beat the system.
> Does anyone have any experience of such unlimited access?
>
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