Turnitin is a text-comparison system which is available through Blackboard. You can also view Turnitin's own service status and opt to subscribe to their status updates at. The Digital Education Office monitors Turnitin service status and will notify our users, via the Digital Education Office blog, of any planned maintenance, or when significant disruption is occurring. Unfortunately, however, there has been some recent service disruption. Turnitin have informed us that they 'are committed to delivering reliable and consistent service to our customers across the globe who are now faced with new and unprecedented challenges.' ( ). Turnitin Status – Use this page to check if Turnitin UK is experiencing any disruptions.*** Turnitin service status during Covid-19 ***.If this is the case for your School, you may want to contact the school directly if you have questions about the way it has been set up.

In some Schools, Turnitin assignments are set up by administrative staff. The link above will take you directly to the correct area, but in case you navigate away make sure you’re in the area for Turnitin in for Blackboard – LTI Your School or other UoD department You can find detailed guides for using Turnitin directly from their website. How to do everything from the Turnitin Help site Your call will be routed to the appropriate team, usually in UoD IT or CTIL, and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can. error messages, things not working the way you expect, problems with logging in, etc.), then log a call with Help4u. Have a look at the contents menu on this page or use the search. You can find guides that are specific for the University of Dundee right here on this site. Where to get helpĬheck out the My Dundee guides for lots of advice, and if you have any technical problems contact Custom guides For more information, check out our guide Setting up an assignment in Turnitin. You can create a Turnitin Submission inbox from within your My Dundee module.

Set assignment such as essays, allowing student to digitally submit by a given date.

Receive similarity report to help guide proper referencing.

Who is it for?ĭigitally submit text-based assignments such as essays through their My Dundee modules Turnitin generates similarity reports that can be accessed by instructors and students. Instructors use Turnitin as a submission point for text-based assignments (like essays or PowerPoint presentations). Turnitin is the primary similarity checker and feedback tool used by the University of Dundee.

Turnitin self checker