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
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
7. *Draft Setting
*Detection NOT Prevention tools
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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