Roll Out of Turnitin Undergrad Business Faculty Griffith College Dublin

1. Roll Out of TurnitinUndergrad Business Faculty Griffith College Dublin John Byrne May 20th, 2009

2. Today • Turnitin Introduction & Roll Out • Plagiarism Reduction

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4. Jude Carroll Oxford Brookes University • Complex problem, complex solution • good induction • teaching skills • course design • detection • transparent decisions • fair punishments • procedures • requirement for records

5. Introduction • I found out about Turnitin in 2006 from my daughter who was at university of Western Ontario in Canada • Trialled it myself on my final year undergrad. Business students -business plan in order to get familiar with the software • Over the Summer of 2006 discussed the product with a number of the full time lecturers who were spending a considerable amount of time searching Google to find sources. Even ran some of their problematic assignments through Turnitin and shared the results with them. Was very well received. • Trialled (pilot) the product with 4 lecturers and 6 subjects, 1st year and 3rd year students during the 1st semester 2006/07. (Oct. 2006) • I gave a training session to each of the classes involved in the 6 subjects. • Issues: • students forgetting their passwords • incorrect student emails

6. Roll-Out • The roll-out across the entire undergrad business faculty; BABS, BAMO, BAAF, BAIHM occurred in the 2nd semester 2006/07 (Feb. 2007), over 600 students • I gave a training session to each class • Same issues as per the pilot • Very well received. • Students quickly understood that the software was very powerful

7. Current Situation • Paper copies are still submitted. • No need for CD’s. Working Towards • Elimination of paper copies • Late penalties apply to non submission via Turnitin.com even if paper copies are submitted. • Using the Turnitin Grademark module to mark and give feedback • 3rd year business plan students who failed

8. Link to Moodle • Over the summer 2008 IT installed the link to connect Moodle (which is used across the entire campus) with Turnitin • This was introduced to selected subjects at the beginning of semester I 2008/2009 (Oct. 2008) • Very successful by both the; lecturers, students and admin. staff

9. Link to Moodle • Advantages over using Turnitin direct • Set-up assignment in Moodle as per normal and no need to repeat this in Turnitin • No need to link students to the assignment like in Turnitin as it is done automatically in Moodle. So no unloading an excel list of students. (admin saving) • Forgot passwords issue removed • Incorrect emails could still be there but less of an issue as most students use Moodle extensively

10. The emphasis is now on plagiarism minimisation • Consider the LearningOutcomes • Which are you asking students to do: • to show they know or to use what they know?

11. Does the Design Encourage ‘making’ or ‘finding & faking’? • Reduce the risk of plagiarism that has resulted from students finding answers • You encourage making by: • requesting a new format • giving individual or unique data sets or contexts • requiring your students to catalogue, critique, plan, defend, justify or rank, rather than to explain or describe

12. Does the Design Encourage ‘making’ or ‘finding & faking’? • You encourage finding by: • setting the same task as last year • setting a task that has only one answer • setting a task that requires your students to show concrete knowledge • allowing last minute changes of topic

13. Moodle Turnitin Set-Up

23. Questions?