[Moodle] Turnitin

[Philip Brown]

I priced the service this morning. It will cost an individual teacher $150
(Canadian) for a year for 150 students. Apparently the service will also
integrate with the assignment module in Moodle.

Phil Brown
Wellington Secondary College

-----Original Message-----
From: moodle-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:moodle-bounces at edulists.com.au]
On Behalf Of Pamela Wright
Sent: Wednesday, 14 February 2007 10:38 AM
To: The Moodle Users' in Schools Mailing List
Subject: RE: [Moodle] Turnitin

Hi Roland,
We use Turnitin at La Trobe Uni and for long essay type assignments it
is helful. It also has a feature that allows the student to check their
own work for plagiarism prior to submission which is invaluable!

We use it as a stand-alone program but there are plans to integrate it
with WebCT.

It seems to work well for universities but I'd suspect that it is
expensive.


Pam Wright
Lecturer ICT Education
La Trobe University
Bundoora 

-----Original Message-----
From: moodle-bounces at edulists.com.au
[mailto:moodle-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Roland Gesthuizen
Sent: Wednesday, 14 February 2007 12:13 AM
To: Moodle in Schools Mailing List
Subject: [Moodle] Turnitin

I probably do as well a job by eyeballing my students contributions. In
any case, I thought that some of you might be curious about this
integration into Moodle that permits users to submit and export
assignments to an external search system in order to give a plagiarism
or copy score. It sounds like a commercial service that could be
expensive. 
     http://www.turnitin.com/static/pdf/datasheet_Moodle_9-05.pdf

Has anybody used this software before? I did read one critical report
about one student's protest actions and another on wikipedia. 
     http://www.mcgilldaily.com/view.php?aid=2166

Regards Roland

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Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
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