Turnitin.com and file formats
October 28th, 2009 Posted in faculty, student, tech, workshop
The anti-plagiarism service that we subscribe to, turnitin.com, will accept student papers in a variety of file formats. On the rare occasion when a student has a word processing program that the service is unfamiliar with, or a file format that the service does not yet accept, there is a simple work-around for students. When they click on the submit button (shown to the right), they can change the first drop-down menu from "Single file upload" to "Cut & paste upload."
This will allow students to submit a paper from any word processing application, even an online service like Google Docs.
Tags: assessment, plagiarism, technology
One Response to “Turnitin.com and file formats”
By Eric Castro on Oct 30, 2009
As an addendum, please note that the formatting will not look “right” to students, and they may worry about that. Turnitin.com strips all formatting anyway, in order to do its archiving job, so they shouldn’t worry about that.