From February 2013 until June 2013, I taught classes for MSU’s IT Services Spartans Learn professional development program on the services Turnitin and iThenticate. This class was also taught by me at Faculty Seminars in May 2013.

Turnitin is a program that can be used within our learning management systems, ANGEL and Desire2Learn (D2L), in order to detect potential similarities between a student’s paper, other student’s papers, and sources. There is also additional functionality, such as the ability for instructor to leave more dynamic feedback about a paper and the ability to allow peer review. iThenticate is another product offered by the same company as Turnitin, but it is a standalone website where authors such as faculty and graduate students can upload their own works to check to see if they are accidentally plagiarism themselves or another source.

For these classes, I created the course, built demo courses for use by attendees, and also wrote all of the documentation for these two products.