Turnitin



ISL is subscribed to Turnitin, where students submit research papers for originality and citation checking.

Students are responsible for submitting their own essays to Turnitin and can discuss the report with their Librarian, teachers and EE supervisors, to make sure that all sources are cited properly.

1. Open a student account on www.turnitin.com. It's free. Use your islux.lu email account.
 * What to do: **

2. Enrol in a class (your teacher has the enrolment code and password). To submit your ToK and Extended Essay, enrol in the Upper School Library class. Your subject teachers have their own Turnitin classes.

3. Upload your work according to the instructions. Wait. See the results.

4. A percentage will appear in the results page. This is generally a number between 5 and 25%. This means that between 5 and 25% of the text you uploaded is not your own. **It does NOT mean you have plagiarised!**

5. Now you need to check that you have the correct in-text citations and references in your Works Cited for every highlighted piece of text.

6. If every highlighted piece of text has an in-text citation attached to it, then you are done, you have not plagiarised.. Everything is in order.

The IBO uses Turnitin for their random checks of work submitted.


 * Your Librarian is the Turnitin administrator. If you have trouble opening a Turnitin account, or any other questions about Turnitin, please contact the Librarian. **

=** * * * * * * Watch OUT! * * * * * * **= = 1. NEVER submit the same piece of work in two separate teachers' accounts. = = 2. Extended Essay and ToK Essay are submitted in the Upper School Library account, other work in your teacher's account. =