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Meet the new Turnitin submission box
You may have noticed the news article about the new Turnitin interface that was deployed on 27 October 2025. The submission box with the new interface, called Turnitin
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Why use the Aalto LaTeX thesis template?
Despite the provocative title, let me be clear here, this isn’t a LaTeX versus Microsoft rant. This isn’t a LaTeX versus other text publishing systems rant either. This blog is about
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The MyCourses thesis supervision workspace: a comment
In the last couple of months, we’ve had a surge in the number of requests to create or renew the MyCourses workspace for thesis instruction called “Thesis supervision Firstname Surname 20ab–20cd”
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Turnitin as part of your MyCourses assignment or workshop
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Teachers have used Turnitin primarily via the standalone Turnitin Assignment ever since it has been available at Aalto University. Well over a year ago, the use of
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Turnitin and detection of AI-generated text
Many of you already know that Turnitin, the company that provides us with the similarity-checking system known to us by the same name, launched its AI detection tool on 4 April
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Artificial-intelligence-based text generators and education
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Text-producing artificial intelligence (AI), Chat GPT in particular, has been a hot topic of discussion in the media as well as among teachers and educators the last
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Grading student work done on paper
Despite having myriad digital tools for creating assignments that are automatically, semi-automatically on manually graded online, sometimes a paper-and-pen assignment is simply the
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