Academic Integrity: Turnitin

1. Promote creation of original and innovative products
2. Reduce plagiarism rates at an institutional level
3. Facilitate best practices of information management and academic communication

- Faculty

- Instructors

- Teaching Assistants

If you wish to open an account, please complete our service form. Make sure to fill out all the required sections.

- Turnitin Feedback Studio via Moodle

- Interpreting the Similarity Report

Turnitin is able to evaluate any academic work produced inside the classroom, as long as it is less than 800 pages. For thesis, dissertations, proposals, and articles for publication, please read the section on Ithenticate.

Faculty, Instructors, Teaching Assistants

• In the syllabus, it is required to notify the use of Turnitin as an assessment tool and discuss the percentages of originality in each project.
• The use of this tool as a punitive method is not recommended, but rather as a support to improve academic research and writing skills.
• The tool has been integrated in our eCourses platform, Institutional Moodle and can be used directly through turnitin.com.
  • If you wish to open an account, please complete our service form.
  • Please contact us if you need instructions on how to use the tool and/or integrate it to your courses. 

Teaching Assistants

• Teaching Assistants can use Turnitin only to monitor the work of students in courses they teach or support, based on what is discussed in the  Faculty, Instructors, Teaching Assistants section.
• Turnitin cannot be used for your own academic work, proposals, thesis, or dissertation.

Available Option for Students

UPRM students can auto-enroll in the Library's Turnitin course in eCourses. It's a free course were each individual can check their classroom assignments before submitting the final version to the professor. 

Steps to auto-enroll:

1. Visit https://ecourses.uprm.edu
2. Search for: Turnitin - Biblioteca General
3. eCourses will ask for your ColegioID (UPR) credentials
4. The course description will include the Enrollment Key: Integridad100%

- Prof. Hilda T. Ayala: Guide content

- Edcel J. Cintrón: English translation