Paul
I think you need to be careful about requiring students to hand in a
copy of the originality report. 
If you use Turnitin for submission of student work then the originality
report is generated and staff/examiners have access to it through
Turnitin. However, if you require students to hand in a printed copy of
the originality report along with their printed work you are asking them
to hand in a documents that could potentially incriminates themselves.
The advice I have received is that we could not then use this as
evidence in a plagiarism hearing.

My suggestion would be to get students to hand in their assignments as
both an anonymous paper copy and via Turnitin. It should be a quick job
for someone (other than the examiner) to view the list of assignments
submitted to Turnitin, check they were all there and identify any where
plagiarism may be suspected (in truth from my experience this should be
a very small percentage). These suspect cases could then be looked at in
more detail either by the examiner after marking or by another academic.
I suspect though that the examiner may already have suspicions if they
have read the work. There will obviously be concerns that the paper copy
matches the electronic a few random cross-checks which students are
aware will happen should resolve this.

If you wish students to view the originality report and reflect on it
then you could let them use the system formatively as we do. They are
allowed to submit their work any number of times and make appropriate
edits prior to handing in for assessment. 

Regards
Eileen
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Dr. Eileen Webb
e-Learning Co-ordinator
School of Computing
University of Teesside




-----Original Message-----
From: Plagiarism [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Paul
Davis
Sent: 28 February 2007 16:43
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Student originality report

We are actually trying to mark the essays anonymously, and one way to do
this was worked out as printing the originality reports, and entering
the
candidates with purely an examination number for identification.  This
produces the problems of mounds of paper!  The department wanted
students to
see their report and comment upon it if they felt so inclined, but keep
their identity hidden from the examiner.

Once the examiner has access to Turnitin they have access to the
student's
email addresses of the form joe.bloggs@.... which isn't very anonymous!

We may have an alternative method which involves bulk uploads, but we
wanted
to try out student self-submission in the first pilot in the hope of
reducing staff load.  It's all new to us at the moment, we have to try
and
adapt practices from the last thousand years with modern technology :-)

Paul

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Dr Paul V Davis
Acting Head, Learning Technologies Group
Oxford University Computing Services

% -----Original Message-----
% From: Badge, Dr J.L. [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
% Sent: 28 February 2007 09:43
% To: Plagiarism; Paul Davis
% Subject: RE: Student originality report
% 
% Paul
% 
% We have students submit final year dissertations of up to 10,000 words
% to Turnitin through Blackboard. Why would you want them to submit a
% paper copy of the originality report? In my experience, to analyse
these
% correctly you need to look at the dynamic electronic version, using
the
% side by side view to ascertain the origin and nature of any matching
% text. Are staff not going to look at the electronic version at all?
% Through Blackboard, any instructor registered on a course can view the
% originality reports, if you are concerned about access, reports can be
% saved and emailed to staff for viewing.
% 
% I must say that by asking students for a paper version you are loosing
a
% great deal of information that should be used for correct
interpretation
% by staff.
% 
% Jo
% 
% -----Original Message-----
% From: Plagiarism [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Paul
% Davis
% Sent: 27 February 2007 16:50
% To: [log in to unmask]
% Subject: Student originality report
% 
% We are about to undertake a trial of the Turnitin system with students
% submitting their work electronically, and then handing in on paper a
% copy of the originality report along with the printed work.  Looking
at
% the system it seems a complete originality report may be longer than
the
% actual paper (probably a 5,000 word essay). I suppose we could ask for
% just the coloured section at the beginning of a classic report, but
that
% seems open to abuse.
% 
% Has anyone else used the system in this way, and if so any hints on
how
% to reduce the amount of generated paper?
% 
% TIA
% 
% Paul

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