TurnItIn

Buffalo State has campus-wide license to the Turnitin integration within Brightspace for unlimited submissions of student papers for plagiarism detection.

Turnitin Policy Statement

If using Turnitin, it is recommended that the following statement be within your syllabus. If the syllabus has already been distributed to students, a notice needs to be provided in writing to the students.
Faculty may require students to use textual similarity detection software (e.g Turnitin) in courses at Buffalo State. Textual similarity detection software compares submitted student text to a database of millions of previously published documents, including those on the public Internet, a proprietary collection of published articles, as well as every student paper previously submitted to the detection service. When similarities between student text and an existing document are found, the software identifies those similarities for instructor and/or student review. (Similarity alone is not evidence of academic misconduct; as such material may be correctly cited.) This software may be used as an educational tool to assist students in learning how to properly cite resources, to decrease instances of academic misconduct, and/or to assist in the identification of acts of academic misconduct.

Students should also be provided a copy of the Academic Misconduct Policy. 

Support and Training Tutorials 

If you are having difficulty with Turnitin, you can call the Turnitin assistance line at: (866) 816-5046

Turnitin Data

A 100% stacked bar graph showing Turnitin usage from Summer 2023 to Winter 2026 semesters.
  • Turnitin Usage
    • 2023-SU: 16 Classes, 17 Instructors, 522 Submissions, 2687 Total Feedback Items
    • 2023-FA: 400 Classes, 86 Instructors, 9618 Submissions, 12178 Total Feedback Items
    • 2024-WI: 7 Classes, 11 Instructors, 191 Submissions, 0 Total Feedback Items
    • 2024-SP: 70 Classes, 39 Instructors, 9311 Submissions, 12163 Total Feedback Items
    • 2024-SU: 92 Classes, 62 Instructors, 1037 Submissions, 4227 Total Feedback Items
    • 2024-FA: 66 Classes, 49 Instructors, 9149 Submissions, 13191 Total Feedback Items
    • 2025-WI: 5 Classes, 5 Instructors, 28 Submissions, 28 Total Feedback Items
    • 2025-SP: 52 Classes, 45 Instructors, 8033 Submissions, 10704 Total Feedback Items
    • 2025-SU: 68 Classes, 44 Instructors, 812 Submissions, 45 Total Feedback Items
    • 2025-FA: 115 Classes, 66 Instructors, 7656 Submissions, 5083 Total Feedback Items
    • 2026-WI: 7 Classes, 7 Instructors, 131 Submissions, 2 Total Feedback Items