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2476Plagiarism Software
Turnitin® software is NOT used within the University of Sussex to detect plagiarism but as a formative tool for students to develop their academic skills.
It is made available to all students to use as part of their development of academic skills. So we are using it currently to *prevent* academic misconduct.
No cases of academic misconduct due to plagiarism will therefore have been uncovered or evidenced through the use of Turnitin®.
We started using Turnitin® across the campus on 8th Nov 2010.
As examples:
- From 8 Nov 2010 to mid-November 2011, 13097 files were uploaded to Turnitin® by UG/PG (T) students.
- From mid-November 2011 to now (24 Feb 2012) 8752 files were uploaded to Turnitin® by UG/PG (T) students.
A site for doctoral students was launched in April 2011.
The license costs are fixed by the size of the institution.
No additional hardware has been purchased for the service. There is some expenditure of staff time for support, although this is pretty minimal and is managed within existing provision for Study Direct generally.
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