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What is Turnitin Originality?

Turnitin Originality is a plagiarism prevention tool available to all UM employees.

This tool offers teachers:

  • a Similarity Report comparing students’ submissions to a large global database;
  • an AI detection tool that may indicate the use of AI tools.

Turnitin is meant for educational purposes. Researchers can use iThenticate to check papers before publication.

Printscreen of a Turnitin Similarity Report. On the left the student submission is shown with text highlighted and numbers. On the right, the plagiarism and AI score is shown.
Image: Turnitin Similarity Report

How does Turnitin Originality work?

The two most important features of Turnitin Originality are a Plagiarism Check and AI Detection:

Plagiarism check

Turnitin Originality is build around a large global database. A student’s submission is compared to this database. The Similarity Report shows the overlap (%) between a students’ submission and the database.

Requirements: 

  • Files less than 100 MB.
  • Files with a minimum of 20 words.
  • File less than 800 pages.
  • Only accepted file types.

AI Detection Tool

Turnitin Originality offers an AI Detection tool. This model is trained to distinguish between human written text and computer written text. It calculates the amount of text (%) within the submission that is likely generated by AI.

Requirements:

  • File size must be less than 100 MB.
  • File must have at least 300 words of prose text in a long-form writing format.
  • File must not exceed 30.000 words.
  • File must be written in English.
  • Only accepted file types.

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