Turnitin has reported an incident on 09 August 2024. Turnitin Feedback Studio is currently experiencing an unexpected service incident. During this time, you may intermittently find that Similarity Reports are stuck processing, or experience issues in downloading a copy of a Similarity Report and/or digital receipt. We appreciate your patience…
Turnitin has reported an incident on 22 April 2024. Turnitin, Turnitin UK, iThenticate, Crossref, and users accessing Turnitin via an integration are currently experiencing an unexpected service incident. We appreciate your patience with any technical issues; the similarity report generation may be slow at the moment. We recommend checking Turnitin’s…
Turnitin has maintenance scheduled for 20 April, 2024 that prevent any use of Similarity and originality check . The disruptions are also expected in feedback studio and other services of Turnitin from 15:00 – 20:00 BST. We anticipate that there may be service issues following this planned downtime as well,…
Turnitin has maintenance scheduled for 16 March, 2024 that prevent any use of Similarity and originality check . The disruptions are also expected in other services of Turnitin from 14:00 – 18:00 BST. We anticipate that there may be service issues following this planned downtime as well, so we appreciate…
Updated: 5th December
We have recently discovered a bug in Turnitin that is triggered when a rubric/ grading form has been changed AND another setting (e.g. post date) has been adjusted. This issue it rare but results in the rubric being replaced with the original rubric selected so it is important that all Turnitin markers read the details below.
While many staff have found the QuickMarks feature of Turnitin invaluable, one comment that many have made is that there are too many default sets. Turnitin have now enabled markers’ ability to customise which sets they can see. A couple of points to help you: Make sure you customise them…
You have probably seen news reports recently of students engaging in “contract cheating” – particularly as there is currently pressure on the Government to ban the essay mills that supply the essays. In order to raise students awareness of the implications for themselves if they engage in contract cheating, October…
New features have come to Turnitin as part of the summer upgrade
Those of you who are observant, may have noticed a new slider button at the bottom of Feedback Studio. Turnitin have recently introduced a new high resolution view of the students paper, but this does mean it’s a larger file size, so you may find disabling the high resolution useful…
As some staff have noticed, Turnitin has had a number of short lived, but annoying, periods of down time recently. They have published a letter from the CEO, looking at the recent issues and, more critically, what they are doing to mitigate issues in the future. In particular they have said:…