Turnitin AI
Academic integrity and similarity-checking platform that helps educators review originality, detect potential plagiarism, provide feedback, and support responsible academic writing.
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What is Turnitin AI?
Turnitin is an academic integrity and writing-support platform designed primarily for educational institutions. It helps educators identify text similarities, review student submissions, provide feedback, and support original academic writing. Its Feedback Studio provides Similarity Reports that compare submissions against student papers, web content, and premium publications. Turnitin also offers additional capabilities through products and add-ons such as Turnitin Originality, which can provide AI writing detection and authorship insights.
Key features
- Similarity checking
- Similarity Reports
- Plagiarism and originality checking
- AI writing detection with Turnitin Originality
- AI paraphrasing detection
- Authorship insights
- Document metadata analysis
- Citation and grammar guidance with Draft Coach
- Grading and feedback tools
- Customizable QuickMarks
- Rubrics and grading forms
- Pinned comments and media comments
How you can use it
Turnitin is primarily used by educational institutions, instructors, researchers and students to evaluate academic work and support academic integrity. Common use cases include checking student submissions for text similarity, identifying potential plagiarism, reviewing possible AI-generated or AI-modified writing, providing formative feedback, improving citations, supporting academic writing, grading assignments and investigating suspected academic misconduct.
Plans & pricing
Turnitin subscriptions are designed for educational institutions rather than individual users. Pricing depends on the institution's size and requirements, and Turnitin provides a customized quote after an institution contacts its sales team. Turnitin Feedback Studio and Turnitin Similarity are not available as direct individual subscriptions. Students may receive access through their school or university if the institution has a Turnitin subscription.
The strengths & trade-offs
Pros
- Large repository for similarity checking
- Designed specifically for academic environments
- Supports student papers, web content and premium publications
- Strong academic integrity features
- Detailed Similarity Reports
- Integrated grading and feedback tools
- AI writing detection available through Originality
- Supports LMS integrations
- Draft Coach helps students improve citations and writing
- Supports content comparison across 170 languages
Cons
- Pricing is not publicly listed
- Primarily available through educational institutions
- Individual users cannot directly purchase Feedback Studio or Similarity
- AI detection is not guaranteed to be accurate
- AI detection should not be used as the sole evidence of academic misconduct
- Some advanced features require additional products or add-ons
- Not designed as a general-purpose writing assistant
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Frequently asked questions
What is Turnitin?
Turnitin is an academic integrity platform that helps educational institutions review student work, identify text similarities, provide feedback and support original academic writing.
Does Turnitin detect plagiarism?
Turnitin identifies similarities between submitted work and content in its databases, but it does not make the final determination that plagiarism has occurred. Educators must review the Similarity Report and make their own judgment.
Does Turnitin detect AI-generated writing?
Turnitin can provide AI writing detection through Turnitin Originality and supported Feedback Studio configurations. The AI writing indicator estimates the percentage of text that may have been generated by AI.
Is Turnitin free?
No. Turnitin does not offer a free individual subscription for Feedback Studio or Similarity. Institutional pricing is provided through a customized quote.
Can individuals buy Turnitin?
Turnitin states that Feedback Studio and Similarity are designed for educational institutions and are not sold directly to individuals.
Can students use Turnitin?
Yes. Students can use Turnitin when their school, college or university provides access through an institutional subscription.
Does Turnitin have a free trial?
No standard individual free trial is publicly offered for Turnitin Feedback Studio or Similarity. Institutions are directed to contact Turnitin for subscription information.
How accurate is Turnitin AI detection?
Turnitin states that its AI writing detection model may sometimes misidentify human-written, AI-generated or AI-paraphrased text. The result should therefore not be used as the sole basis for disciplinary action.
What does the Turnitin Similarity score mean?
The Similarity score represents the percentage of text in a submission that matches text found in other sources. A similarity score itself does not prove plagiarism.
How many languages does Turnitin support?
Turnitin states that its content repository can compare submissions against content across 170 languages, although individual features may have more limited language support.
Does Turnitin work with learning management systems?
Yes. Turnitin can integrate with popular learning management systems including Canvas, Moodle, Microsoft Teams, D2L and Sakai through supported integrations.