Announcing Turnitin Global

Turnitin can now accept papers for originality checking in 30 different languages including Chinese (traditional and simplified), Japanese, Korean and Thai. These new languages join the languages that have been previously supported by Turnitin: French, Spanish and German.

John Barrie, CEO of iParadigms said, "Recent changes to our technological platform allow us to handle submissions in a wide range of alphabets and character sets. Originality reports in alphabetic languages such as Spanish will exhibit perfect fidelity with regard to accents and diacritical marks, and support for character-based languages have opened many new global possibilities for us. We are working with our partners on fully localized interfaces to be available soon."

Papers can now be submitted to Turnitin at global.turnitin.com in the following 30 languages: Chinese (simplified and traditional), Japanese, Thai, Korean, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian (Bokmal, Nynorsk), Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, Farsi, Russian, and Turkish.

For more information about global coverage, please contact us via email at sales@turnitin.com or via telephone at +1-510-287-9720 (US).

Turnitin CEO Speaks at Third Annual Plagiarism Conference

Dr John Barrie, CEO of iParadigms, will be speaking at the Third International Plagiarism Conference, sponsored by the QCA and JISC which is being held held 23-25 June 2008 , Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK. This conference runs every two years and examines the challenges facing institutions as they evolve solutions to the issue of ensuring authenticity in learners' work in a changing information environment.

Moodle & Turnitin

"Turnitin is proud to announce that we are now offering a customized Moodle & Turnitin Learning Management System - fully hosted on our servers and supported by our dedicated team - for less than $5 per student!!

Moodle is the world's leading open source learning management system (www.moodle.org), and this package fully integrates our services directly into a Moodle instance that is maintained within the same server farm that is hosting Turnitin for millions of users worldwide, which offers stability, rollover redundancy and a responsive 24/7 support team with decades of hosting experience. Your faculty and students will be able to utilize all of these services via a browser from any Internet-accessible location, and your school will be able to take advantage of a fully featured Learning Management System without having to install expensive hardware or pay substantial up-front licensing fees.

For more information about this solution, please contact us via email at moodle@turnitin.com or via telephone at +1-510-287-9720, x240 (higher education) or x239 (secondary education)."