TurnItIn
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Product Details
- Overview
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Turnitin is an academic-integrity and writing-feedback platform rather than a curriculum. It is designed primarily for secondary and postsecondary writers, with K–12 use concentrated in middle and high school, with students, teachers, writing instructors, librarians, and administrators using it to support source use, citation, originality review, feedback, and writing revision.
Students submit writing and educators review similarity information, source matches, feedback, and revision evidence to teach responsible research and writing. The product should be evaluated for the specific learners, instructional setting, and intensity of support a district intends—not simply as another source of digital activities.
- Student Data Privacy
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Review the Common Sense Privacy Rating:
https://www.commonsense.org/education/reviews/turnitin
Turnitin Privacy Policy:
https://www.turnitin.com/privacy-policy-website
Signed California Student Data Privacy Agreement?
No - Features
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Audience and instructional role
- Grades / learners: secondary and postsecondary writers, with K–12 use concentrated in middle and high school
- Primary users: students, teachers, writing instructors, librarians, and administrators
- Learning focus: source use, citation, originality review, feedback, and writing revision — an academic-integrity and writing-feedback platform rather than a curriculum
How it supports learning- Students submit writing and educators review similarity information, source matches, feedback, and revision evidence to teach responsible research and writing.
- Teachers should use the product within a defined instructional model rather than treat activity completion as evidence of learning.
Implementation and instructional decisions- Similarity scores are not findings of plagiarism; educators must interpret matches, teach citation, provide due process, and govern repository retention and AI-writing indicators carefully.
- Districts should confirm accessibility, language support, student-data practices, assignment workflow, reporting, and the role of teacher judgment.
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- Company News
Turnitin provides instructors with the tools to engage students in the writing process, provide personalized feedback, and assess student progress over time. Turnitin is used by more than 30 million students at 15,000 institutions in 150 countries.
Turnitin provides instructors with the tools to engage students in the writing process, provide personalized feedback, and assess student progress over time. Turnitin is used by more than 30 million students at 15,000 institutions in 150 countries.
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