Slides from a short presentation given on the features of two plagiarism detection tools: Turnitin and SafeAssign at a recent Faculty Forum on Teaching and Technology (1/26/12) for more about the Faculty Forum: http://www.fordham.edu/campus_resources/fordham_it/help__support/faculty__staff/faculty_technology_s/faculty_forum_on_tea_78160.asp

1. PLAGIARISM
DETECTION TOOLS

2. Turnitin vs.
SafeAssign

3. Turn- it-in SafeAssign
Similarity Reports Yes Yes
Able to exclude specific sources from report Yes Yes – but must reprocess the report
Able to include or exclude quoted text Yes No
Archived Internet content Yes Yes
Able to include or exclude bibliography Yes No
Active Internet content Yes Yes
Yes – but only papers students voluntarily submit from
Student papers from all schools using tool Yes (150 million student papers)
their respective institutions
Gale InfoTrac OneFile ProQuest ABI/Inform
(10,000 titles covering more than 60 million articles) (1,100 publication titles and about 2.6 million articles from
Proprietary Database(s)
Emerald '90s to present time, updated weekly)
ABC-Clio Global Reference Database
Availability outside of Blackboard Yes – works through website which is accessible 24/7 No – Only available with Blackboard
.docx (Word 2007 or Word 2008 for Mac) .docx (Word 2007 or Word 2008 for Mac)
.doc (Word, earlier versions) .doc (Word, earlier versions)
.txt (Plain text) .txt (Plain text)
.pdf (Adobe Acrobat PDF) .pdf (Adobe Acrobat PDF)
Files Types Supported
.rtf (Rich Text Format .rtf (Rich Text Format
.wp (Word Perfect) .odt (Open Office Word)
.ps (Post Script) .zip
HTML HTML

4. Turn- it-in SafeAssign
Similarity Reports Yes Yes
Able to exclude specific sources from report Yes Yes – but must reprocess the report
Able to include or exclude quoted text Yes No
Archived Internet content Yes Yes
Able to include or exclude bibliography Yes No
Active Internet content Yes Yes
Yes (but only papers students voluntarily submit from
Student papers from all schools using tool Yes (150 million student papers)
their respective institutions)
Gale InfoTrac OneFile ProQuest ABI/Inform
(10,000 titles covering more than 60 million articles) (1,100 publication titles and about 2.6 million articles from
Proprietary Database(s)
Emerald '90s to present time, updated weekly)
ABC-Clio Global Reference Database * (opt in)
Availability outside of Blackboard Yes – works through website which is accessible 24/7 No – Only available with Blackboard
.docx (Word 2007 or Word 2008 for Mac) .docx (Word 2007 or Word 2008 for Mac)
.doc (Word, earlier versions) .doc (Word, earlier versions)
.txt (Plain text) .txt (Plain text)
.pdf (Adobe Acrobat PDF) .pdf (Adobe Acrobat PDF)
Files Types Supported
.rtf (Rich Text Format .rtf (Rich Text Format
.wp (Word Perfect) .odt (Open Office Word)
.ps (Post Script) .zip
HTML HTML

5. Tips
and reminders

6. *Draft Setting

7. *Draft Setting
*Detection NOT Prevention tools
This web comic is 100% original. Any resemblance to existing web comics, alive or dead, is purely coincidental.

8. Turnitin

9. Features
Turnitin

10. Turnitin

11. Turnitin

12. Turnitin

13. Turnitin

14. Turnitin

15. Turnitin

16. Turnitin

17. Grademark
Turnitin

18. Turnitin

19. Drop and drag comments
Turnitin

20. Create your own comments
Turnitin

21. Is it supported on the iPad, tablets, or
other mobile devices?
Turnitin

22. Turnitin

23. How do I get
an account?
Turnitin

24. Come to the your faculty ID
with
FTC
Turnitin

25. SafeAssign

26. SafeAssign
Features

27. SafeAssign

28. Integrates w/ Grade Center
SafeAssign
Mouse over,
click “Grade Details”

29. How do I get
an account?
SafeAssign

30. SafeAssign is available
within Blackboard
SafeAssign
Within a content area,
choose “Safe Assignment” instead of “+Item”

31. Required:
SafeAssign Name, points possible

32. Res urces

33. Turnitin
Tutorials
GradeMark Demo (video)
Contact the FTC on your campus or email: ftc@fordham.edu
SafeAssign
Instructor FAQs
How SafeAssign Works
Blackboard Training: contact the FTC on your campus or email: blackboard@fordham.edu
Plagiarism Prevention Tools
Information and resources on the FTC website

34. Cartoons (slides 6, 7)
http://www.justfitstudio.com/articles/plagiarism-detection.html
http://www.dilapidactyl.com/2011/04/21/plagiarism/
Background design by Freeman
Slides by: Kristen A. Treglia, Instructional Technologist
Fordham University ©2012