Press releases
Oakland, Calif.
Turnitin’s AI writing detection feature and Gradescope by Turnitin earned Best of Show honors from Tech & Learning for their efforts to transform education in schools around the world.
Oakland, Calif.
Today, Turnitin announced that more than 65 million papers have been reviewed since the April launch of its new feature that detects similarities to AI writing.
Malaysia Starting 30 June 2023, Turnitin will serve customers in Malaysia directly with a local team of four employees, as part of the company’s expansion efforts in the Asia Pacific region.
Oakland, Calif.
Today, Turnitin celebrates its 25th anniversary, commemorating a quarter of a century in edtech innovation.
Oakland, Calif.
For the 13th annual EdTech Digest Awards - the world’s largest awards program dedicated to education technology - Gradescope by Turnitin and Chief Product Officer Annie Chechitelli were recognized for their contributions in transforming education through technology by EdTech Digest.
AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND
ASX-listed education provider empowers 200 educators at 11 brands with capabilities to optimise learning across content formats and assessment methods
Australia & New Zealand
New capabilities in the existing Turnitin workflow give educators highly accurate insights into the presence of AI-generated text for more than 62 million students.
Singapore
New capabilities in the existing Turnitin workflow give educators highly accurate insights into the presence of AI-generated text for more than 62 million students.
Oakland, Calif.
New capabilities in the existing Turnitin workflow give educators highly accurate insights into the presence of AI-generated text for more than 62 million students
Oakland, Calif.
Turnitin has successfully developed an AI writing detector and company plans to add this functionality to its core writing integrity products as early as April 2023.
Seoul, Korea.
iMaxSoft, the developer of HelloLMS, and Turnitin, a global provider of assessment and grading solutions, have announced the completion of the technical integration between HelloLMS and Turnitin Similarity.
Oakland, Calif.
The assessment platform—known for using AI to help cut grading time in half—introduces French to its line of translated interfaces, which includes English, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese [Brazilian], Spanish, and Turkish.
Oakland, Calif.
Known for digitizing handwritten, paper-based work and cutting grading time in half, the assessment software is now available for students on the App Store and Google Play
Oakland, Calif.
In June, Turnitin edtech solutions were named to 1EdTech’s (IMS Global) Learning Impact Awards, EdTech Breakthrough’s Classroom Tech Solution of the Year, and Tech & Learning’s Best of Show at ISTELive 2022
Oakland, Calif.
With Turnitin Draft Coach, students access immediate, formative citation and grammar feedback on their essay drafts directly in Microsoft Word online, building students’ writing confidence and skills.
Shanghai
TopEdit, a provider of academic editing and publication support services to Chinese researchers, becomes an official partner of Turnitin’s plagiarism prevention service, iThenticate, in China.
Islamabad
The partners will focus on creating learning opportunities for primary and secondary school-aged children
Oakland, Calif.
The EdTech Awards names Turnitin Draft Coach as the 2022 EdTech Cool Tool: Research and Reference Tools Solution Winner and Turnitin AI as a 2022 EdTech Trendsetter Finalist
London
Gradescope by Turnitin was selected for helping educators make informed decisions that improve learning outcomes.
Oakland, Calif.
Popular for helping educators cut grading time in half and digitizing paper-based work, the software now fully operates in five new languages, in addition to English
Oakland, Calif.
Following the successful pilot program in September 2021, edtech solution Gradescope by Turnitin has now launched its Japanese language interface.
Oakland, Calif.
Selected from over 3,000 companies, Turnitin is helping increase accessibility in education
Oakland, Calif. Hazel-Ann Mayers brings two decades of corporate legal leadership from CBS, Simon & Schuster, and Viacom and an adjunct professorship to Turnitin
Oakland, Calif.
Annie Chechitelli joins Turnitin with two decades of product leadership from Amazon, Blackboard, and Wimba
Oakland, Calif.
Turnitin and Ouriginal join forces to help institutions around the globe promote academic integrity
Seoul
This expansion provides a top grading and assessment solution to South Korea academia
Oakland, Calif.
Drawing in over 2,000 nominations internationally, the awards program recognizes industry-changing products and companies in educational technology
Oakland, Calif.
GradeHub’s modern and intuitive approach to bubble sheet exams add to Turnitin’s growing assessment capabilities
Oakland, Calif.
Turnitin announced today that Duke Kunshan University has won the 2020 Asia Pacific Gradescope Grants Program. The APAC Gradescope Grants program supports projects related to the use of online assessment platform Gradescope for various assessment types across multiple disciplines.
Oakland, Calif.
Turnitin, a leader in academic integrity and assessment solutions for schools, universities, and professional organizations hires Marissa Farrar, experienced global talent and culture executive, as chief people officer.
Oakland, Calif.
Turnitin Feedback Studio with Draft Coach was named the winner of a Gold Stevie® Award in the Learning Capacity-Building Solution category in The 19th Annual American Business Awards® today. Over 3,800 nominations were submitted for this year’s award, a record number.
Oakland, Calif.
Turnitin has entered into an agreement with Nordic private equity firm Procuritas to acquire Ouriginal, a company formed from the union of Urkund and PlagScan, established experts in plagiarism detection for academic institutions.
Oakland, Calif.
Turnitin has acquired European online proctoring company ProctorExam, a global leader in providing flexible SaaS proctoring technology.
Oakland, Calif.
Illuminate Education, a leading K-12 student performance solution, is partnering with Turnitin, a leading provider of academic integrity and assessment solutions. Together, they will equip teachers with knowledge and resources to encourage academic integrity and promote effective assessment creation and delivery in remote learning environments.
Newcastle, UK
Turnitin, a leading provider of academic integrity and assessment solutions, announced today it has acquired ExamSoft, a software-based assessment platform, from Spectrum Equity. ExamSoft empowers educational institutions and certification and licensure programs to protect exam integrity, streamline assessment processes, and improve learning outcomes.
Oakland, Calif.
Turnitin is pleased to announce that applications are now open for its 2020 Asia Pacific Gradescope Grants program to support the design and delivery of remote assessments.
Oakland, Calif.
Turnitin, a leading provider of academic integrity and assessment solutions, announced today it has acquired ExamSoft, a software-based assessment platform, from Spectrum Equity. ExamSoft empowers educational institutions and certification and licensure programs to protect exam integrity, streamline assessment processes, and improve learning outcomes.
Newcastle, UK
With the release of Turnitin Originality, colleges and universities shifting to online instruction can move beyond text similarity checking and take a holistic approach to academic integrity
Oakland, Calif. With the release of Turnitin Originality, schools and universities shifting to online instruction can move beyond text similarity checking and take a holistic approach to academic integrity
Oakland, Calif.
Turnitin and the National Honor Society align efforts to promote and encourage integrity in K–12 education
Oakland, Calif.
As the academic integrity landscape evolves, we are committed to supporting our university and school partners around the globe in their efforts to uphold the integrity of their institutions. We do that—in part—by developing new solutions to emerging challenges and by expanding and enhancing our technology. To further these advancements, we are pleased to announce that Turnitin has acquired Unicheck.
Oakland, Calif.
Turnitin and NewsGuard announce a partnership that will help millions of students and teachers spot and avoid misinformation, improve their research abilities, and develop critical media literacy skills.
Oakland, Calif.
Turnitin, the leading provider of feedback, grading, and academic integrity solutions, today announced its partnership with EdTech agency and consultancy RepresentEdTech, appointing the firm as a value-added reseller (VAR) of Turnitin solutions in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark.
Oakland, Calif.
Turnitin announced today the winners of the 2019 Global Innovation Awards which recognize educators, technology administrators, and institutions who have worked tirelessly to facilitate authentic learning, improve assessment practices, help students to achieve learning objectives, and support institutional strategy.
Melbourne, Australia Australian educators using The Alpha School System (TASS) can now check student work with Turnitin’s similarity checking functionality without leaving their learning management system (LMS) environment.
Oakland, Calif. Turnitin, the world leader in feedback, grading, and plagiarism detection solutions is teaming up with F1 in Schools to check the originality of submissions for the F1 in Schools World Finals 2019 in Abu Dhabi.
Oakland, Calif.
If development of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) should benefit all people, then its developers should reflect the diversity of the population. To help bring that diversity to the A.I. field, Turnitin is sponsoring several promising students of A.I. and deep learning to attend the Full Stack Deep Learning (FSDL) Bootcamp.
Oakland, Calif.
Turnitin and DreamApply, Europe’s leading student application management system, are joining forces to help admissions officers confidently assess application essays and streamline the admissions process for High Education Institutes (HEI), worldwide.
Oakland, Calif.
Three in five University students who engage in contract cheating will be caught by markers using machine learning software, new academic research has found. The research conducted by Associate Professors Phillip Dawson and Wendy Sutherland-Smith from Deakin University, in collaboration with Principal Product Manager Mark Ricksen from academic integrity solutions provider Turnitin, is the first of its kind into the potential promise of machine learning to address the problem of contract cheating.
Oakland, Calif.
Moodle, the world’s most popular learning platform, today announced its new partnership with Turnitin, a global leader in academic integrity and originality checking services.
Oakland, Calif.
On August 12, Senators Durbin, Markey, and Blumenthal called on tech companies, including Turnitin, to provide them with information regarding their student data privacy practices. We share their concerns regarding student data privacy, and on September 3, were pleased to provide them with the following response.
Oakland, Calif.
Gradescope by Turnitin has been selected by the 2019 SaaS Awards as a finalist in the category for Best Product for Education or Non-Profits. This follows closely on the heels of being named best Science and STEM Instructional Solution by the 2019 SIIA CODiE Awards.
Oakland, Calif.
Turnitin, the leading provider of academic integrity solutions, and Kira Talent, the world’s only holistic admissions solution, announced today a new partnership to help detect plagiarism in admissions applications.
Oakland, Calif.
Gradescope by Turnitin won the 2019 SIIA CODiE Award for Best Science and STEM Instructional Solution. Gradescope is a feedback and assessment platform combining deep instructor expertise with the latest machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) to dramatically reduce the pain and time associated with traditional grading.
Oakland, Calif.
Turnitin, known for solutions that promote academic integrity and streamline grading and feedback, has partnered with eThink Education, a leading provider of fully-managed solutions for the open-source Moodle and Totara Learning Management Systems, to bring integrated eLearning solutions to academic institutions.
Oakland, Calif.
Turnitin announced today a partnership with CORE, a service provided by The Knowledge Media Institute, a multidisciplinary research and development lab based at The Open University in the UK in partnership with Jisc, a membership organization providing digital solutions for UK education and research
Oakland, Calif.
Gradescope by Turnitin has been selected as a finalist in the 2019 CODiE Awards in the Best Science/STEM Instructional Solution category.
Oakland, Calif. Turnitin announced today the general availability of Authorship Investigate, the first solution that supports higher education administrators in addressing contract cheating.
Oakland, Calif.
Advance today announced the acquisition of Turnitin, a leading provider of education technology for academic integrity and writing solutions, from an investment entity affiliated with Insight Venture Partners, GIC and their co-investors.
Oakland, Calif.
Turnitin's Global Innovation Awards honor 28 institutions and individuals worldwide for their dedication to fostering cultures of integrity and teaching students to find their authentic voices.
Oakland, Calif.
Turnitin joins the International Center for Academic Integrity to ignite a movement against contract cheating.
Oakland, Calif. Turnitin has acquired Gradescope, an assessment platform that reduces the time associated with grading in college courses via an optimized online workflow and clever application of artificial intelligence. Gradescope makes it easier for instructors to quickly grade assignments and gain additional insights about student learning in any area of study, including economics, business, and STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math).
Melbourne, Australia
Instructors and Students can now access Turnitin’s originality checking and feedback features via a new integration with Daymap.
Oakland, Calif. and Austin, Texas
A new partnership between Turnitin and Unizin will give college and university instructors better data about how students write and revise their work. Turnitin has been at the forefront of academic integrity and writing solutions for 20 years, and Unizin is a consortium of top U.S. research institutions dedicated to improving access, affordability, and learner success in higher education. Unizin’s Data Platform creates a unified data portrait of students, which makes it easier for faculty to customize instruction and better understand likely student outcomes.
Oakland, Calif. Turnitin, a company at the forefront of academic integrity solutions for 20 years, announced today its commitment to stringent data privacy practices and compliance with the European Union’s (EU) General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR).
Oakland, Calif.
Arne Duncan, former United States Secretary of Education, has joined the Turnitin Board of Directors. Duncan, United States Secretary of Education from 2009 through December 2015, is currently the managing partner of education group Emerson Collective. Mr. Duncan brings considerable experience in large scale deployment and adoption of educational technology in K-12 and higher education
Oakland, Calif.
Turnitin and W. W. Norton & Company have signed an agreement to supply academic textbook content that has been published by W. W. Norton & Company to the Turnitin database. Turnitin writing resources are used by educators in K-12 and higher education to support writing instruction, receive and grade student papers, and check for original content.
Oakland, Calif. One in three college instructors report that their students have submitted papers written by someone else. However, instructors feel they lack the evidence and resources to take action.
Oakland, Calif. and Newcastle, UK
Turnitin honors 46 institutions and individuals worldwide for their resourceful commitment to enhancing student outcomes with tools to support academic integrity in writing
Oakland, Calif. Turnitin will work to protect the intellectual property of JAC’s rightsholders and raise awareness of issues such as publication ethics and research integrity.
Oakland, Calif. Judges say Turnitin products support teachers in writing instruction and describe Revision Assistant and Feedback Studio as “student centered,” “impressive,” and providing “intelligent markup.”
Oakland, Calif. Turnitin will work with Kyorinsha to protect the integrity of their customers' publications and will offer Japanese authors and editors access to Turnitin’s market-leading originality checking solution
Oakland, Calif. Turnitin’s popular solutions integrate easily with eThink’s Moodle solution, providing a seamless experience for eThink clients.
Oakland, Calif. Inclusion of Lexile® measures for Revision Assistant writing prompts aids teachers in assigning prompts that are appropriate to students’ reading level
Oakland, Calif. Revision Assistant helps norm grading and essay feedback for teachers in creative application of education technology supporting writing instruction