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How Turnitin helps to save instructors’ marking time and improve teaching quality

How to use Turnitin as a one-stop-shop for marks management

Tactics that Turnitin suggests to reduce contract cheating:

• Include an Academic Integrity statement in your syllabus and require students to sign an anti-cheating pledge, creating a culture of integrity with your classroom.
• Assign in-class writing as a baseline writing assessment at the beginning of the term, to which one can compare a student’s later work.
• Make your assignment unique–focus on essay prompts that would not be replicated outside of your classroom, such as incorporating personal experience or topics based on classroom discussion. Doing so would sidestep using canned assignment topics, easily found for sale. Unique assignments make essays difficult to write for an individual outside of class.
• Limit word count and page limit requirements–this could prevent students from “fluffing” content.
• Allow for late assignments–cheating usually arises out of desperation.
• Assign oral presentations in lieu of papers, or in addition to papers to display knowledge of the writing assignment content.
• Have students write proposals of intended assignments as well as multiple drafts.
• Have students write multiple drafts and do peer and self review in class, making the writing process transparent. It’s unlikely a student will pay an essay mill to write multiple drafts of an essay.