Mississippi State University has renewed Turnitin.com for the 2009/2010 year. Purchased through the Office of Student Affairs, Turnitin is part of a campus-wide endeavor to foster a climate of ethical research at MSU.

Effective June 30, 2009, Turnitin will include some new or revised features. These include:

The default setting for all new assignments will be to exclude bibliographic and quoted material from the Similarity Index. (Instructors may choose, at their discretion, to add this back.)

Coming July 30, 2009:

(1) Optional exclusion of small matches in the originality report. Instructors may choose to set a percent match (between 1 and 100%) to be excluded from the report.

(2) Expanded similarity index show sources of matches: in addition to the overall similarity index, each Originality Report will also display the percentage of the paper's content that matches content in each of the three source repositories (student papers, web sources, and periodicals/journals/publications.)

(3) Automatic check of a user's system capabilities with Turnitin Systems Requirements. This has always been an option; with the July 30 release, this check will be performed automatically.

(4) Improved handling of document submissions and multiple file uploads. This update will double the size limits for individual file submissions (increased from 10MB to 20MB) and for zip file uploads (increased from 100MB to 200MB.) Users will also be notified if they submit a paper that exceeds the maximum size.

The Center for Teaching and Learning provides faculty support for any instructor of record who wishes to use Turnitin.com in their class. Turnitin may be used as a web product or through myCourses. For additional information about Turnitin, contact the Center at 325-1403.