Turnitin is an electronic assignment submission tool. The tool provides your instructor with:

  • a record of the exact submission time of an assignment
  • a similarity report indicating the percentage of your work that is an exact match of existing materials within the Turnitin database.

Turnitin helps guarantee high-quality, original, academic work by ensuring that lecturers can gauge a student's understanding of academic writing, referencing and citation, and helps ensure that students are unable to plagiarise published works or the work of other students.