Will Murray

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3rd Turnitin UK User Group Meeting

• Will Murray
• Northumbria Learning CEO JISCPAS Service
  Director

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Agenda Welcome!

• Introduction (Will Murray)
• The user group, quick Highlights of JISC-PAS and
  NL work this year
• Four case studies
• Northumbria (Valerie Stewart), Portsmouth (Pete
  Starie),
• Kent (Judy Cohen) and Greenwhich (Mark Celements)
• Group sessions (Gill Rowell)
• Implementation, Communication, Policies
  Procedures, Assessment and Institutional support
• Coffee - Feedback on sessions
• Insiders view 2007
• Q A, Close opportunity to talk to the
  JISC-PAS and NL team

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Who are we?
Northumbria University
Northumbria Learning
JISC
Owned by
Blackboard
JISC-PAS
ANGEL
Evidence Base
Plagiarism Advice
Moodle
Detection Advice
Document CTR
Runs
Training
Turnitin
Turnitin support
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Who are we?

• From Northumbria Learning/JISC-PAS
• Will Murray Service Director
• Gill Rowell JISC-PAS Advisor
• Louise Rixham Outreach and support
• Olivia McPhee Marketing and PR
• Our host
• Pete Ellis TII UK Forum Moderator

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The user group

• Plagiarism Prevention
• Opportunity to share practice
• Opportunity to share resources and research
• A chance for us to communicate current JISC-PAS
  work
• Turnitin
• Ability to influence development
• A single voice to recommend changes
• A sounding board for iParadigms LLC
• And your chance to provide feedback to us

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Where are we now?

• 85 of Universities are now using Turnitin
• Awarding bodies are beginning to pilot and adopt
• OCR, Edexcel, SQA, IFS
• Recent survey results revealed (3,200 students)
• 97 of students understood plagiarism to include
  taking material from the web without
  acknowledgement
• 47 felt their tutors would be able to spot
  internet plagiarism
• 87 support the use of electronic detection
  tools
• 76 felt that use of such tools could help
  address the issue by discourgaing the submission
  of unacknowledged work
• 1 in 10 felt a guilty party should be asked to
  withdraw from their course
• (Conducted by Malcolm Bell soon to be
  published)

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The new JISC-PAS Website
Public Discussion Forum All aspects of
plagiarism (warning may contain journalists)
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The new JISC-PAS Website
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The new JISC-PAS Website
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The new JISC-PAS Website
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The JISC-PAS Road Map

• Creating an effective framework
• Institutional questions
• Dealing with plagiarism at the programme level
• Effective resolution at an academic level
• Penalties and punishments
• Implementing the framework
• Clarity of responsibility
• Clarity of case processing procedures
• Reporting procedures
• Monitoring activities

• Informing and educating
• Informing staff
• Informing students
• Raising student awareness
• Formative support
• Staff development
• Creating a culture that promotes integrity
• Aligning with the sector
• Keeping up to date
• Incorporating the external and national contexts
• Sharing practice and experience with the
  community

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JISC PAS This Year!

• Case Studies
• ? 3,000 available per project for 6 case
  studies application forms on forum
• Benchmarking survey
• AMBeR
• Matrix of current regulations
• Analysis of current regulations
• Case studies
• Draft case study reports
• DP/FOI and IP briefing papers
• Courses on HE in FE and Preventing and Detecting

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Turnitin new this year

• Content
• Gale-Thompson Infotrac OneFile
• 39 million records spanning 10,000 titles
• Emerald
• Acumen PI (Pending)
• Grade Mark (Substantive update)
• Shibboleth Interface
• Moodle ANGEL interfaces

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Turnitin Data protection and FOI guide
iParadigms (Turnitin)
? New Relationship
Student
Academic Institution
? Existing Relationship
Existing relationship(s)
Other Service Provider(s)
Data Subject
Data Controller
Data Processor

• Briefing paper will be available through the
  user forum

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Case Studies

• Gillian Rowell
• JISCPAS Advisor

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Group Sessions

• Gillian Rowell
• JISCPAS Advisor

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Questions