To promote academic integrity and help staff and students to stay plagiarism-free, PolyU provides licensed use of the plagiarism prevention and detection system, Turnitin, which has been integrated with the University Learning Management System (LMS), LEARN@PolyU (理學網).
The Turnitin system works like this:
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Your work is submitted to the detection system. |
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Your wok is compared to billions of pages of reference material including professional publications, student essay cheat sites and other student work. |
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An originality report is made on every piece of submitted work. Any text matches found in the detection system’s databases are highlighted and linked to the sources. |
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Teachers can review the originality report and determine whether or not plagiarism has occurred. |
https://www.polyu.edu.hk/ogur/academic_integrity/Plagiarism_Booklet.pdf (p.7)
User guides of Turnitin are available here:
In addition to Turnitin, the University’s Research Office (RO) has also subscribed another similarity detection tool, VeriGuide, to support research activities of research staff. Click here for details.
For more resources on academic integrity, please visit:
Please contact the IT HelpCentre at 2766 5900 for further enquiries or assistance.
Alan Cheng
Assistant Manager (e-Learning Management System Support)
