Turnitin

About Turnitin
Turnitin has three key features for educators including the originality check (plagarism check), grademark (allows teachers to submit standard or original comments to students' papers), and peer review (students review other students' papers anonymously).

Resources

 * Three key features allow teachers to let students have more interaction with different writing styles from their classroom.
 * Plagarism checker
 * Easy comment generator
 * Peer review (can be anonymous)
 * Ability to set criteria for reviews including length of answers
 * Can assign a particular number of papers to each student to review

Strengths

 * Allows students to interact with each other anonymously.
 * Students can edit papers honestly
 * Students will receive honest feedback

Weaknesses

 * If students don't participate willingly some papers will not be reviewed
 * Cost to teachers/school/county

Opportunities

 * Set up in the beginning of a school year so students are familiar.
 * Students could use it to turn in homework including dbq's and essays.

Classroom Uses

 * Teachers can utilize this to set up online homework assignments
 * Teachers can utilize this to set up state assessment practice