Advantages for Staff
- Facilitates online submission and generates similarity reports
- Can aid the decision making where plagiarism or collusion is suspected
- Can encourage higher standards of academic writing and integrity
- Can make the assessment process fairer and more transparent
Advantages for Students
- Can help students gain a better understanding of plagiarism and, with guidance, learn how to avoid it
- No expensive printing required
- No need to travel to the university campus to submit a paper
Additional Resources
http://staffcentral.brighton.ac.uk/plagiarism/esubmission.shtm - eSubmission at the University of Brighton (information, guidelines, regulations)
http://www2.napier.ac.uk/ed/plagiarism/staff.htm (Plagiarism in the digital age - Edinburgh Napier University)
http://submit.ac.uk/help/helpdesk.asp (Northumbria Learning TurnitinUK helpdesk)
http://www.submit.ac.uk/static_jisc/knowledge_base/knowledge_base.html (TurnitinUK Knowledge Bank)
http://www.submit.ac.uk/static_jisc/ac_uk_training.html (TurnitinUK Support Material)