On the 4th of September, there was an upgrade of the externally hosted plagiarism system TurnItIn (Tii) by the vendor. UNE uses the component “OriginalityCheck” within TurnItIn for Plagiarism checking.

Over the previous two days the new interface hosted by TurnItIn has been is VERY slow and virtually unusable. Today, the new viewer is performing adequately due to changes made by TurnItIn.

The new version of “OriginalityCheck” has a new reporting interface/document viewer which is very different to the existing interface and has additional improved capabilities.

At present when selecting view reports in Esubmission, users are placed arbitrarily in either original reporting interface or new Originality document viewer.

Please note ITD have escalated this issue with TurnItIn.

There are buttons on each view to move the alternative view of your liking. Once within TurnItIn :-

1. To move to the new viewer from the original text report, select “Document Viewer” on the top left.
2. To move to the original text report from the new viewer, select “Text-Only Report” on the bottom right.

For information on the new ‘Originality Check” capabilities please visit http://turnitin.com/static/what_is_new_4.html

Please NOTE:

1. UNE processes to send assignments to TurnItIn remain the same and are functioning correctly.

2. The UNE Originality Check system “TurnItIn OriginalityCheck” is hosted by the vendor and accessed by the UNE Esubmission system.

3. ITD will continue to monitor TurnItIn for performance issues.