
John Sandbrook, an educator at the University of California, Los Angeles, cautioned against seeing Turnitin as a purely disciplinary device. If they want students to upload their work and check, it’s their decision," Barrie said.

“The institutions and the faculty members - those are our clients. The service is licensed only to faculty members, but can be accessible to students. Military Academy at West Point, Dartmouth University, Rutgers University, the California state university system, all the colleges and universities in the United Kingdom and other international institutions such as the American University in Cairo.

“We represent a lot of the world’s students,” he said.īarrie said Turnitin also is used by 5,000 high schools and universities in 85 countries. How much does it cost? Barrie said the price is just 75 cents per student, a cost kept low by the number of customers.

Turnitin's Web site says that, compared to conventional online academic-paper searches that can take 12 minutes each, its service gives instructors the ability to research 125 papers in a blistering 15 seconds.
