There is now a ‘Turnitin Self-Check’ facility available in Moodle for students to check for possible referencing issues before submitting assignments. This facility will be available until August 2023.
You can use the Turnitin self-check facility to check for text matches on drafts of your written assignments. Your lecturer will not see these drafts in Turnitin.
This Turnitin self-check facility is to create additional feedback/learning possibilities. This self-assessment approach offers you the opportunity to improve your referencing before you finally submit your work for grading. There is a short video on the Moodle page explaining how to interpret the Turnitin similarity report.
The Self-check page for 2022-23 can be accessed at:
- Moodle page name: MIC Turnitin Self-check Facility AY 2022-23
- Page address: https://moodle.mic.ul.ie/course/view.php?id=1600
- Alternatively: Enter “MIC Turnitin 2022” in the Search field and then click Search to find the page
- Use the Self-enrolment key: @CheckForMe22
All students can make three submissions which will generate fast similarity checks. Thereafter, each further submission will take 24 hours to provide a similarity report.
After you upload a draft of your written work to the self-check facility, Turnitin processes the submitted document and returns a similarity report which will be visible only to you, the student.
Any written work uploaded to the Turnitin self-check facility is not saved to the Turnitin student paper repository. You can make multiple resubmissions to the Turnitin self-check facility.
Remember that written work uploaded to the self-check facility will only be compared against text-based sources to which Turnitin has access. This includes:
- Current and archived web content that is publicly available
- Books, newspapers, and journals (through its partnerships with publishers, library databases, digital reference collections, and subscription-based publications)
- Student papers previously submitted and saved to the Turnitin student paper repository
Turnitin similarity reports do not detect matches to images, drawings, diagrams, or plans; print books and journals, translated foreign language works and password-protected content on websites.
Turnitin similarity reports do not detect plagiarism; they are limited to displaying the amount of matched text that Turnitin has found by highlighting the matched text on your written work and identifying sources for that matched text. This will include correctly referenced and quoted text.
Some useful resources on referencing have been prepared by the Academic Learning Centre and Library and are shared on the Academic Integrity Policy
If you have any questions or queries about this facility, please do call to the Academic Learning Centre (ALC) or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.