Questions and Answers about Turnitin in BUmoodle

Q1: I have some previous assignment stored in BUmoodle. Can I scan it easily using Turnitin?
A1: No. Since the Turnitin Assignment is handled separately and is stored in Turnitin.com as a link, previous assignment and documents stored in BUmoodle has to be resubmit into BUmoodle using Turnitin Assignment in order to scan for plagiarism.
Q2: Every semester, BUmoodle will refresh their contents. Will the originality reports of the previous submitted assignment be erased at the same time?
A2: No. The originality reports were saved in turnitin.com. Therefore, it will not be erased when the BUmoodle site was refreshed in each semester.
Q3: Will there be any difference between the originality report seen by instructors and that seen by students?
A3: No. They are the same.
Q4: What does Turnitin check against plagiarism
A4:
  • Over 12 Billion Web Pages Crawled & Archived
  • Over 60 Million Student Papers
  • Over 10,000 Major Newspapers, Magazines & Scholarly Journals
  • Thousands of Books including Literary Classics