Use of Turnitin:
UH West O'ahu has a license agreement with iParadigms, LLC for the use of their plagiarism prevention and detection service popularly known as Turnitin. Faculty may use Turnitin when reading and grading your assignments. By taking a course where Turnitin is used, you agree that your assigned work may be submitted to and screened by Turnitin. Turnitin rates work on originality based on exhaustive searches of billions of pages from both current and archived instances of the internet, millions of student papers previously submitted to Turnitin, and commercial databases of journal articles and periodicals. Turnitin does not make make a determination if plagiarism has taken place. It makes an assessment of the submission's originality and reports that to the course instructor. These Originality Reports are tools to help your teacher locate potential sources of plagiarism in submitted papers.
All papers submitted to Turnitin become part of Turnitin's reference database solely for the purpose of detecting plagiarism. Use of Turnitin is subject to the Usage Policy as posted on the Turnitin.com web site.