Turnitin is an online tool that is used academic institutions and other organisations to evaluate the originality of written content, to support the correct and proper citation of references, supporting good academic practices while helping to identify and prevent plagiarism.
MIC uses Turnitin across a range of assessments in line with the College’s Academic Integrity and Conduct policies.
Turnitin works by maintaining a comprehensive, global database of written works, publications and assignments. This allows submissions to be compared against student papers within a specific course, institution or across global institutions as well as against internet publications, news sources, journals and other content across languages.
The Turnitin Self-check Facility
The Turnitin Self-check Facility enables you to check for text matches and referencing citations in drafts of your written assignments in advance of uploading them as your final submissions to modules. In doing this, you have the chance to review the Turnitin Similarity Report that is produced for your work. This Similarity Report helps you evaluate the degree of similarity between your work and other content in the Turnitin database which in turn can enable you to make improvements to the way you have written, cited and referenced.
Once you have completed your review and revision, you can then submit your module assignment with the assurance that it reflects your own original work.
In addition, by using the Turnitin Self-check facility, you can be confident in your ability to make assignment submissions and understand the types of files and content that are accepted by Turnitin. This will help make assignment deadlines much less stressful.
Important to Note
The Self-check facility page provides you with assistance and guidance on how to use Turnitin along with some important points. Keep in mind that:
- Your lecturers do not have access to the Turnitin Self-check Facility: any work you submit to Self-check is not considered to be an assignment submission and it is not saved;
- You must ensure you keep your own copy of your original work and submit it to the appropriate module and/or lecturer;
- You always allow yourself sufficient time when preparing assignments as you will need a minimum of 36 hours to complete and review a Self-check before submitting your final work;
- You only ever use the Self-check facility before making your assignment submission and never the other way round. Once you submit to your assignment, it is too late to perform a Self-check.
Accessing the 24AY Self-check Facility
The 24AY Self-check facility will be available to access from Monday 26 August 2024 and will close on Saturday 30 August 2025.
The MIC Self-check facility is only accessible to members of the MIC community: users must enrol to the facility so must have an MIC student or staff account and be able to access MIC Moodle.
- Sign in to MIC Moodle at https://moodle.mic.ul.ie with your MIC account details;
- From the Moodle Spaces menu bar item locate and click 24AY Turnitin Self-check for UG/PG Students or access the URL https://moodle.mic.ul.ie/course/view.php?id=4884;
- When the page loads you will see a section titled Enrol Me. Here, you must enter the following Enrolment key:
- T24#SelfCheck
- Copy and paste (or type) the Enrolment Key (13 characters) exactly as it is, ensuring that you have no spaces before, after or in the middle of the Key. Click the blue Enrol me button to join the page.
Before making a submission to the Turnitin Self-check Facility, familiarise yourself with the information provided on the Self-check Facility page. Pay particular attention to the information on re-submissions and delays that may occur as well as to the minimum requirements for Turnitin to accept your work as this information applies to both the Self-check and to any of your Module Assignments.