Turnitin: A Case for Using it at GWU
As you may have read, I have postulated in my other blog that cheating is rampant at GWU. Recently, I posted here about how services such as Turnitin might discourage plagiarism. Now I have evidence that it might do that if it were integrated into Blackboard here at GWU:
161.253.55.7 - - [30/Sep/2006:15:56:03 -0400] "GET /education/ HTTP/1.1" 200 39181 "http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=gwu+turnitin&btnG=Google+Search" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/1.5.0.7""
This is an entry my access log that shows someone at GWU searched for GWU and Turnitin. I speculate that it was a student who wanted to see what he or she could get away with at GW, but was smart enough to check if GW used Turnitin first.