{"id":144,"date":"2013-10-23T15:52:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T15:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/biology-eacademy-using-turnitin\/"},"modified":"2013-10-23T15:52:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T15:52:00","slug":"biology-eacademy-using-turnitin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/biology-eacademy-using-turnitin\/","title":{"rendered":"Biology eAcademy: Using TurnItIn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Turnitin_logo.png\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Turnitin\" border=\"0\" class=\"zemanta-img-inserted\" height=\"88\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/d\/dc\/Turnitin_logo.png\" style=\"border: none; font-size: 0.8em;\" width=\"155\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The CSU has a license for TurnItIn http:\/\/turnitin.com<\/p>\n<p>This has become so much more than just plagiarism software. It allows instructors to do extensive mark-up and commenting on papers. It has a powerful rubric tool, it allows instructors to insert audio comments, and it will save your text comments &#8211; comments that you commonly use to help save instructors time. It is integrated with many LMSs including Moodle.<\/p>\n<p>It allows for paper assignments, peer reviewed assignments, revision, and reflection assignments.<\/p>\n<p>It will scan papers for plagiarism and give the student a report. It will also scan papers from grammar. &nbsp;The grammar checker is available from the site but not through the LMS because the grammar checker is in beta.<\/p>\n<p>The presenting instructor says that this tool saves her a significant amount of time in grading papers.<\/p>\n<p>One instructor recounted a time when TurnItIn did not catch something really obvious. We discussed the importance of the instructor being engaged in the process vs. just relying on software.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It saves trees!&#8221;  <\/p>\n<div style=\"height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=b01cf468-1312-44f6-8c78-d23004cea32a\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CSU has a license for TurnItIn http:\/\/turnitin.com This has become so much more than just plagiarism software. It allows instructors to do extensive mark-up and commenting on papers. It has a powerful rubric tool, it allows instructors to insert &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/biology-eacademy-using-turnitin\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,235],"tags":[239,233,241],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assessment","category-biology","tag-csu","tag-plagiarism","tag-turnitin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}