More Insights with Turnitin’s AI Paraphrasing Detection
Turnitin has just announced the upcoming launch of our AI paraphrasing detection capability. It aims to help educators identify potential AI misconduct and advance student learning by providing updated data and insights on the use of AI in student submissions. This capability is an extension of their AI writing detection feature and will become available from July 16, 2024.
New With This Feature:
Deter potential AI misconduct: With AI paraphrasing detection, you can now identify and differentiate segments of text that were likely AI generated and further modified using a text spinner, which may deter students from using such tools to avoid detection.
Draw actionable insights: Use the data and insights provided by our tool to start a formative discussion with students. The AI writing report highlights the text segments that our model predicts were likely written by an AI tool, and content that was AI-written and further modified using an AI paraphrasing tool. Both segments are highlighted in different colors to enable instructors and other users to interpret results easily.
Support your existing workflow: The AI paraphrasing detection capability is part of the AI writing detection feature, which is built into our existing Similarity Report workflow. This means it’s already integrated with the learning management system you’re using. You can check student papers for AI paraphrasing without changing the way you work.
Other Turnitin Updates:
In addition to the new paraphrase detection, they have increased the maximum word count limit for submissions from 15,000 words to 30,000 words for AI writing detection, so that the tool can be used for longer submissions with ease.
Additionally, they will no longer show an AI score for documents where it detects less than 20% of AI writing. With the introduction of AI paraphrasing, there is additional data for the instructor, and we want to reduce data that may not be actionable.
To learn more about Turnitin, enroll in our newly created course offered online, PD 2181 Comprehensive Turnitin Training.
As always, if you have any questions about this new feature, please email EdTech@fscj.edu.
