Turnitin News Archive 2004

December 15, 2004
Turnitin will be unavailable from 11:30 am to 3 pm on 12/18/04 due to routine maintenance.

December 4, 2004
Turnitin has announced several upgrades for the coming year. The upgrades are scheduled for release on December 30, 2004 and will include several key GradeBook enhancements, custom time zone preferences and more precise assignment start and due dates, an improved new user interface, better password retrieval, and a new series of mailing lists for Turnitin administrators. For more detailed information please take a look at our Winter 2005 New Features PDF .

November 5, 2004
New streaming video demonstrations on how to use Turnitin functions from a faculty and student perspective. Please view the column on the left for further instructions.

August 30, 2004
The Instructional Systems Technology Department, in the School of Education, has developed a tutorial offering students a opportunity on how to learn to recognizing plagiarism.
Click here for more information.

August 13, 2004
Individual Turnitin training for faculty slated for August 17 and August 24.
Click here for more information.

July 22, 2004
Turnitin Announces New Features for Fall 2004
Included in the new feature set are: a major search engine upgrade; discussion boards for students and teachers; Quick Submit; improved class sections; and many more (note: some features may not be available through our license).
Click here to view the information in PDF format.

June 16, 2004
Academic Integrity and Plagiarism: Strategies for Instructors
Wed June 16, 2:00-4:00 LIB 305. A panel consisting of IUB instructors and instructional support staff, will present seven strategies to help instructors encourage academic integrity in their students. These strategies include communicating the value of academic honesty to students, encouraging proper citation of sources, informing students which behaviors are considered to be plagiarism, using tools that encourage academic honesty.

June 2, 2004
Individual Turnitin training for faculty slated for June 2, 7, and 15.
Click here for times, additional information, and to register.

May 2004
IUB's pilot subscription to Turnitin has been extended through summer 2005. Instructors will continue to have access to Turnitin this summer and the 2004-05 academic year .  TLTC will continue to provide training and collect feedback about the tool.
Click here for pilot statistics for the Bloomington campus.

April 2004
The April 2004 ISS newsletter features an update about IUB's pilot test of Turnitin.  The article, on pp. 6, highlights the use of Turnitin in several sections of English W131 in Spring 2004.
Click here to view the newsletter in PDF format.

January 13, 2004
New quickstart for instructors and students added.
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New directions for students to register, join courses, and submit work.
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