Using Turnitin to analyse the chances of student work being AI generated.
Todays Tech tip explores a well-known tool, Turnitin.
With the arrival of AI based tools like ChatGPT and POE that can generate human-like text based documents, a tool for analysing student submissions is very helpful for teachers who seek to analyse the chances of student work being AI generated.
In response to this need, Turnitin which already available within Managebac, has added this feature to their product. An Ed-Tech support guide document has been created that goes through the details of how to setup and use Turnitin for this purpose. It is located here.
In summary, the steps are as follows.
- Tick the Turnitin Feedback studio box when creating your assessment task
- Once students submit the task, click on “Feedback Studio” to access the Turnitin report
- Within this report, click on the actual similarity score for any given submission to see an individual report, including a calculation of the percentage likelihood that the document was created using AI tools.
Remember however, that this is NOT definitive, and the chances for false positives definitely exist. It is however a tool that can be used to give you the opportunity to have further discussions with students around how they created their submission based on the results that are presented by Turnitin.
That’s it for today’s Tech Tip. See you again next Tuesday.
(Special Thanks to Cheryl for her assistance putting this weeks Tip together)
Tech Coach Ken