Did you know UVSC has a license for Turnitin plagiarism prevention software?  We do!

As their site notes, "Turnitin’s comprehensive plagiarism prevention system lets you quickly and effectively check all of your students’ work in a fraction of the time necessary to scan a few suspect papers using a search engine."

What UVSC has is not a site-license arrangement, but a service we buy into based on the number of students we have and the kind of resources we want to access. We then set up a certain number of users that can access the service. Once a person is set up in the system, they can submit papers all they want for them to check. Turnitin returns a report containing matches to their very expansive database of electronic materials that could be used for plagiarism-based writing. They are very careful NOT to make any judgments, they just provide information about matches.

If you are a faculty or staff and are interested in using this service, please contact Bruce Parker and he will add you to the user list:

Bruce D. Parker, PhD.
Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs
Office of Faculty Affairs
phone: 801-863-8084
fax:  801-226-5207
email: parkerbr@uvsc.edu