About Turnitin
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Turnitin is the global leader in evaluating and improving student writing. The company’s cloud-based service for originality checking, online grading and peer review saves instructors time and provides rich feedback to students.
One of the most widely distributed educational applications in the world, Turnitin is used by more than 10,000 institutions in 126 countries to manage the submission, tracking and evaluation of student papers online. Turnitin also offers iThenticate, a plagiarism detection service for commercial markets, and WriteCheck, a suite of formative tools for writers. Turnitin is backed by Warburg Pincus and is headquartered in Oakland, Calif., with an international office in Newcastle, U.K.
History
The early years
Four UC Berkeley graduate students develop peer review application
Founders build Turnitin prototype to detect unoriginal content in student writing
iParadigms, the parent company of Turnitin, is incorporated.
iParadigms, parent company of Turnitin, is incorporated
Partners with CrossRef and develops iThenticate for scholarly publishers
Develops WriteCheck to provide student formative writing tools
2009 - present
Warburg Pincus acquires majority stake in Turnitin
Announces Turnitin for Admissions to detect plagiarism in college applications
Turnitin2 tightens integration of originality checking, online grading and peer review with layering of paper in its original format
Acquires nLearning and establishes International headquarters in Newcastle, UK
Partners with Educational Testing Service (ETS®) to integrate e-rater® technology
Releases translated matching to detect plagiarized content translated from English.
Announces ability for instructors to add Voice Comments
Turnitin for iPad® becomes available on the App Store℠
Cloud Submit lets students upload papers from Google Drive™ or DropBox
Turnitin grows to over 160 employees in 2013.
Service
Turnitin processed over 80 million papers in 2012.
190,000 papers are submitted per day with 500,000 papers submitted on peak days.
Turnitin records service uptime of 99.9% and average turnaround time of 23.9 seconds per paper.
GradeMark is rapidly re-inventing how papers are graded, and is doubling in usage each year. Turnitin celebrated its 20 millionth GradeMark review in October 2012.
Turnitin supports 18 languages: English, Arabic, Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Russian.
Turnitin integrates with more than 50 Course Management Systems, including Blackboard, Moodle, Instructure Canvas, Desire2Learn, Pearson Learning Studio, and Sakai.
Turnitin uses three databases for content matching:
40+ billion web pages crawled
300+ million archived student papers
130+ million articles from 110,000+ journals periodicals & books
Customers
Turnitin serves over
1 million active instructors
20 million licensed students
10,000 educational institutions
Turnitin customers include 56% of the top 100 high schools listed on U.S. News and World Report's America's Best High Schools in 2010.
Of the top 100 colleges and universities in the 2010 U.S. News and World Report Best Colleges list, 69% are Turnitin customers.
130 of the top 200 universities in the world use Turnitin, as indicated in the Times Higher Education World Rankings(2012).
51% of Turnitin instructors teach subjects other than English, writing, composition, or communications.
Turnitin customers are located in 126 countries.
