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Users meet in snowy Bristol.

Friday, 13 February 2009 00:00

In spite of snow across much of the South West and Midlands Administrators gathered in the beautiful Wills Memorial Building at the University of Bristol for the PlagiarismAdvice.org user group on Thursday 5 February.

Following lunch delegates were welcomed to the University of Bristol by John Davis, Academic Director of e-Learning.

Guest speaker, James Parry from the UK Research Integrity Office started the meeting with a presentation on research misconduct and the work of his organisation, drawing many parallels with procedures and recommendations currently adopted by institutions in dealing with undergraduate plagiarism. Unfortunately our second speaker, Siobhan Hohls from the Office of the Independent Adjudicator was unable to attend because of bad weather, however her presentation is available.

Will Murray, Director of Plagiarism.Advice.org went on to update users on current and future developments and projects. This included a demonstration of the new anonymous marking feature feature which is now available to all users, which provoked lively discussion from those attending and was well received. Will also provided details of a new alpha deep integration with Moodle which has been developed by nLearning, along with a progress report on the CrossRef content which is currently being indexed and added to the TurnitinUK database and details of helpdesk improvements to support current high volumes of submissions. Gill Rowell also updated the group on non-TurnitinUK related projects and work with secondary education. Further information on these areas can be found in the update presentation (please note this resource is password protected as it contains development plans).

Neil McKeown from the Univeristy of Bradford provided a short presentation on his insititution’s use and deployment of TurnitinUK and associated support strategies.

Finally, following afternoon refreshments users divided into groups to discuss a range of topics suggested by Administrators, including tips for new users of the service, integrating TurnitinUK with institutional academic misconduct policies, using GradeMark and using TurnitinUK for postgraduate work.

Feedback on the event was overwhelmingly positive, with users finding the opportunity to network and discuss practice extremely useful, and many thanks to colleagues at the University of Bristol for their hospitality.