Our users have spoken:

"I have been using Turnitin.com for some time now, but with GradeMarks’s recent improvements correcting and giving feedback is a snap. I especially like GradeMark’s clipboard and rubric generator. It is easy to reduce your grading time by up to 30% compared to pen and paper. The clipboard and rubric generator alone can improve grading efficiency dramatically. I am also impressed with the emoticons available for feedback. My students really seemed to enjoy the positive reinforcement that the checkmark and smiley-face emoticons provide. Finally, having a summary panel that lists the time spent grading and the number of total marks is an effective way for teachers to stay on track. GradeMark almost makes me look forward to marking!"
- James Papple
Brock University

"Turnitin.com allows me to deliver the considerable cognitive benefits of the peer review experience to my introductory class of 1000 students. Only this brilliant tool allows me to do so without being swamped by administrative overhead."
- Prof. John Mitterer
Brock University
(Recipient of the 2003 Brock Distinguished Teaching Award)

"(My teachers) feel that GradeMark is a tremendous time saver, saving around 30% of their time in grading/commenting papers online."
- Walter Loblein
Principal
Chatfield Senior High

"Turnitin.com is not really for plagiarism to me; it's to make students better writers."
- Greg Arnberg M.S.I.S.
Instructor of Information Systems
Hawaii Pacific University

"My teachers found Turnitin to be user friendly and exceptionally efficient in ensuring a level playing field for all students. I strongly encourage all administrators to look into the utilization of Turnitin.com for student research."
- Tommy Floyd
Assistant Superintendent for Student Achievement
Madison County Schools

"I have used Turnitin.com's scan for plagiarized material for several years now, and it has completely changed the intellectual authenticity, honesty, and precision in my students' research writing. They can't wait to see the side-by-side analysis of their papers and the articles they have quoted, all color-coded and numbered for matches. Instructors who do not have access to this program often come to me, asking me to run a scan on a paper they believe to be plagiarized. A school-wide subscription to Turnitin.com would raise the level of our students' work several levels."
- Dr. Dorothy Bushnell
Merced College

" I have successfully used Turnitin.com for many years in my writing courses, and I have not had any problems. The service is valuable in that having it in place completely prevents plagiarists, so I don't have to confront this bothersome issue. In addition, it is very useful for scanning student essays to check the format of quoted passes because the program color- codes each separately. And last, students have no problem whatsoever uploading their work. It only takes a few seconds."
- Robin Calitri

The University of Washington outreach program TRIO, which encourages disadvantaged middle school and high school students to compete in researching, writing and creating their own Web sites, already uses Turnitin.com for its national TRIO ThinkQuest competition.

"We use Turnitin.com as a teaching tool, not as a punishment," said Sharon Primm-Dayot, curriculum coordinator for TRIO programs. "Every year since then we have seen a decrease in the number of plagiarism incidents."

The site helps students to learn from their mistakes.

"For our students to be able to see that a highlighted line of theirs is similar or exact to another document gives us that ‘teaching moment,’" she said.

Students are so eager to improve their skills that they do not feel threatened at all by the program, Primm-Dayot said.

Turnitin’s services are highlighted in all trainings provided by TRIO Training at the University of Washington and are a centerpiece within the teaching resources of our TRIO Quest online activities. TRIO programs are federally funded services for underrepresented students with the sole purpose of preparing them for success in higher education. The topics of intellectual honesty and appropriate attribution are a priority for our training of TRIO staff and students. Although we provide numerous resources and tutorials on our web site, Turnitin is one of the most powerful teaching tools that we use.

One of the best examples of using Turnitin as a teaching tool within our training is during one of our TRIO Quest activities, TRIO ThinkQuest (TTQ). TTQ is a national competition for middle and high school students who participate in TRIO programs. This competition challenges students to research, write, and create educational web sites. Students and staff are instructed to use our plagiarism resources because sites will be submitted to Turnitin for plagiarism check. Once we receive the originality reports from Turnitin, we share the results with our staff and students. For our students, being able to see a highlighted line that is similar or exact to another document gives us that “teaching moment” to illustrate how to quote and cite properly in order to maintain academic integrity. Almost always, students will gasp in surprise when they see the report and then nod emphatically as they see how a problem area can be corrected with proper attribution.

Because technology makes it easier to find sources, and even easier to copy and paste information, Turnitin plays an extremely important role in helping our students understand intellectual honesty. The visual strength of Turnitin’s reports allows our students to literally see the similarities between their writing and others on one page. Along with the teaching moments that result from reports, we are seeing less and less plagiarism within our educational web site competition.

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