[LIBRARYDIR] Turnitin.com

Mon Oct 17 09:58:43 PDT 2016

Hi Mindy,
We have just completed a year long study of our Turnitin subscription and campus usage. I can put you in touch with our team members, here in the library as well as a few heavy use instructors. Our work was quite extensive. We looked at several products and VeriCite was the only one that was even remotely competitive. Actually once the native client is in working order, it will work and look amazingly like Turnitin but perhaps without some of the bells and whistles.

The reasons we have migrated to VeriCite after our study:

  1.  Cost – Apparently our original contract with Turnitin was for $20k/yr. By the time we cancelled this summer, it was approaching $55k/yr. over a 3-4 year window. It seems they are building a much more robust system which will be great for users but current users are paying for its construction. Essentially they wanted to put in place a 10% increase each year for the next five years and my budget will not allow for this increase. (WSU dropped their subscription as well due to functionality in Canvas as well as cost. Their subscription was over $100,000/yr.)
  2.  Limited number of users – we were able to identify about 70 – 100 instructors using the tool (the number is ambiguous because the way it was counting instructors was not unique to the user). I will say there have been improvements in its authentication since then.
  3.  Copyright/ownership of documents – You are correct that some campuses felt that the contract was unacceptable. The real strength of Turnitin is its large database for comparison; every user campus contributes to that database. The key is that Turnitin owns copyright, per contract, to all work submitted for the purposes of comparison, marketing, and training.

I recommend you contact VeriCite [https://vericite.com/]. Scott and crew are super responsive and can give you a tour of the software. Upside: The database is controlled and there are no concerns about ownership of the material. Downside: the database is limited to your campus only so it may grow slowly if you have few users.

Cost: based on a FTE of 10,931, VeriCite for the Bellevue is $11,478/yr. They gave us a quote in less than 30 minutes.

Potential: I would like to propose in the long run that we create a Washington consortium where we can share a single database. In fact we are making that proposal to the eLearning Council soon. Unfortunately there are no savings on the subscription rate for a consortial agreement but the database alone makes a very compelling argument for joining together.

Vericite has a great deal of info online. Here are the basics:

Canvas Native Integration - Grading a VeriCite Assignment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZnWtIO4ryw&index=3&list=PL45ag8wbsH_FJ6uy8k79TF5kt2kYIeLzi

Canvas Native Integration - Creating a VeriCite Assignment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cybM0AuRBMI&list=PL45ag8wbsH_FJ6uy8k79TF5kt2kYIeLzi&index=1

Canvas Native Integration - Submitting a VeriCite Assignment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcPFSqGTKcc&list=PL45ag8wbsH_FJ6uy8k79TF5kt2kYIeLzi&index=2

Please let me know if I can be of greater assistance,
Vivienne
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From: LIBRARYDIR <librarydir-bounces at lists.ctc.edu<mailto:librarydir-bounces at lists.ctc.edu>> on behalf of Mindy Coslor <Mindy.Coslor at skagit.edu<mailto:Mindy.Coslor at skagit.edu>>
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Date: Monday, October 17, 2016 at 9:21 AM
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Subject: [LIBRARYDIR] Turnitin.com

Hi folks,

I am fielding a request from a faculty member for Turnitin.com as an institutional subscription.  I know many of you have experience with it.  Can you give me an idea about the cost (we are contacting the company for a quote) and issues you have around the service?  It seems to me someone made a comment about who owns a document once it is submitted to Turnitin.com.  Is there anything I should know beyond cost?  Do your faculty use it?  Do they like or dislike it?  What comments have you heard?

Thanks,
Mindy

Mindy Coslor, Ph.D.
Director of Library Services
Skagit Valley College
2405 E College Way
Mount Vernon, WA  98284
mcoslor at skagit.edu<mailto:mcoslor at skagit.edu>

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