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

Chart Showing Turnitin Usage
  • Turnitin Usage
    • 2023-SU: 76 Classes, 57 Instructors, 535 Submissions, 2708 Total Feedback Items
    • 2023-FA: 400 Classes, 252 Instructors, 9618 Submissions, 12178 Total Feedback Items
    • 2024-WI: 64 Classes, 40 Instructors, 234 Submissions, 12 Total Feedback Items
    • 2024-SP: 396 Classes, 250 Instructors, 9311 Submissions, 12163 Total Feedback Items
    • 2024-SU: 92 Classes, 62 Instructors, 1037 Submissions, 4227 Total Feedback Items
    • 2024-FA: 349 Classes, 226 Instructors, 9133 Submissions, 1455 Total Feedback Items