Plagiarism check
Plagiarism is considered fraud. There can be serious repercussions for students that commit plagiarism. The university provides tools and support to check whether students have committed plagiarism in assignments and papers.
Depending on the assessment in your course, you might need to check whether (parts of) submitted papers, essays or theses have been copied from others. Turnitin compares the content of submitted papers and theses with previously submitted papers and with public sources on the internet.
Please note that this functionality cannot detect the use of GenAI like ChatGPT.
- The Brightspace support page explains how to use Turnitin. There is also an explanatory video.
- Manual of Turnitin, including how you should interpret the similarity report.
- For more information about plagiarism and the correct handling of citations, please consult the plagiarism guidelines.
- Want to inform your students about plagiarism? Refer them to the using sources correctly module on the Science Skills Platform. Contact skills@science.leidenuniv.nl for more information and help.