UB has an enterprise-wide subscription to Turnitin to help protect integrity in student work. Turnitin has one tool for plagiarism detection and one tool for AI detection. These can be turned on for assignments (not quizzes or other assessment modes) collected in the UB Learns platform.
Like any “evidence,” these scores are just a starting point. The originality report, or plagiarism checker, shows anywhere exact language has been matched to another source. This language may be appropriately cited and attributed in the paper, but the highlighted results show instructors exactly what they need to review.
The AI-detection tool helps identify writing generated by artificial intelligence tools. Instructors get a report showing areas of text composed with AI and areas of text composed with AI and then “humanized.” While Turnitin has a high reliability rating for AI detection, this is also just a starting point in an instructor’s review of work. Any suspected dishonesty must proceed through the consultative resolution process.
