Turnitin

Product information

Turnitin is a leading plagiarism detection software that helps educational institutions maintain academic integrity. The platform allows you to check the originality of work and ensure that sources are cited correctly.

Students and staff at BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg can use the Turnitin plagiarism detection software free of charge.

Licence content

  • Plagiarism check (check whether students have cited correctly or whether plagiarism may be present)
  • Online grading (allows individual comments and QuickMark markings directly in a paper)
  • Grading of all types of assignments in all subject areas
  • PeerMark (students evaluate each other's work and learn from their fellow students)
  • Advanced configuration options for document storage

Licence type

Campus licence

Registration and use

Students

  • Please contact your teacher or the Software team to obtain a course ID.
  • Please create a user profile at Turnitin (under ‘Sign In’ in the top right corner).
  • Next, click on ‘New User’ and select ‘Student’ as your user profile.
  • You can now create a new account for students.

Please include the following information in your email to software(at)b-tu.de : first name, last name, @b-tu-de email address

Teachers

Please submit an informal request in the IT Services section to create an account that you can use to create courses for students.

Please note the following:

  • Teachers must upload the work themselves and obtain the consent of the author beforehand.
  • Work that is checked with Turnitin may only be temporarily stored and not saved on an external server. When creating a new assignment in Turnitin, please select the option ‘Submit papers to: No storage’ in the ‘Optional settings’ menu.
  • Please remove the cover page of the document before uploading, as no personal data may be transferred.
  • The consequences of proving plagiarism are regulated by the examination regulations of the individual degree programmes.