Turnitin is an anti-plagiarism software that has been integrated into the submission process for each group work project. Turnitin creates a similarity report that not only matches your paper against its own database, but also compares it to other papers submitted by other WQU students in this or in previous course sessions.
Prior to the submission deadline for your project, you will have the opportunity to:
Review the similarity report to check your own projects for plagiarism, spelling, and grammar before submitting them for grading
Edit the work prior to the due date to ensure that any statement copied from another author is properly quoted, cited, and mindfully used to support your original work. The point of using a quotation from a source is to support the argument you are making and should NOT become the argument itself.
When you upload your assignment submission, Turnitin automatically creates a similarity report that matches your paper against its database (Internet resources, peer reviewed journals, magazines, textbooks, student assignments submitted at other Universities, etc.) as well as papers submitted by other WQU students in the same WQU online platform. The similarity report highlights all the matches that have been identified and allows you to check whether you have cited your sources appropriately and included sufficient original content in your work.
At this time, Turnitin has only made AI detection scores accessible to instructors. Students cannot review this score.