Turnitin overview

Flinders University provides text-matching software for use by staff and students. Except where an exemption has been granted for special circumstances, all text-based student assignments will be subject to text-matching.

Flinders University currently uses Turnitin as its text-matching software program. As text-matching software can also be a valuable learning tool, text-matching is also available to all students via FLO for checking draft assignments.

Text-matching software, why it is used, and submitting a draft

Text-matching software identifies similar or exact matches between submitted work and other digital material. This material may include the Internet, electronic databases and other students' work.

The Flinders University Academic Integrity Policy includes a provision that allows students to submit drafts of their assignment.

If you think that your written work may too closely resemble your source material, you can enter your draft into a text-matching course in FLO before submitting the final version through the Assignments page in your topic.

The text-matching course is not linked to a teaching topic and should not be used for final submission of assignments.

Final assignment submission and built-in text-matching

Your final submission will automatically be submitted for text-matching through the assignment module of your topic’s FLO course.

See Final submission of an assignment.

Please do not use the draft text-matching box for final submission of assignments.