EDiine and TurnItIn

[Anonymous]

MY ds is starting 9th grade and is new to MCPS. We noticed that the school requires enrollment in Edline and also use of TurnItIn for assignments. How is registration accomplished and will the school expect first day assignments to have been submitted electronically?

[Anonymous]

DD is starting 6th grade, and the principal told us at orientation that we would get Edline information at back to school night. Ours is pretty soon.

[Anonymous]

What is turnitin? Is it part of edline?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is turnitin? Is it part of edline?

They are separate programs with different purposes by two different companies. Edline is a way for teachers to communicate assignments and grades. Turnitin is a plagiarism checker.

You don't have to wait until BTSN to request and activate an Edline code, but it will take a couple days if your child is new to MCPS. Your child may be told to see a specific staff member (the Edline Superuser), but all teachers CAN look up the student and parent access codes under the "Manage Class" code. I do this for my new to MCPS students or those whose parents haven't activated the account by the second week of school.

--MCPS MS teacher

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is turnitin? Is it part of edline?

I use Turnitin for my college students (UMD) to check for plagiarism.

[Anonymous]

Forgot to add. Assignments can't be submitted via Edline. You or your DC can email the teacher via an Edline link, but there is no way for students to attach anything to that email.
Your DC will get a MCPS Google email account that allows him or her to access Google Apps for Education and use the Chromebooks. He or she may submit assignments via Google Classroom or by sharing through Google apps like Docs or Slides. You can signup to get a weekly parent summary of his or her Google Classroom activities, but you won't have your own account that you can check whenever you want.

[Anonymous]

Edline allows you to monitor child's grade, turnitin is for your child to turn in assignments, some teachers also use edmodo for this. all have apps and easy (free) on-line interfaces.
Some parents find it better to have a weekly time to visit Edline, others like a daily look. Kids have their own edline account and parents can also have an edline and edmodo account linked to their child(ren).

[Anonymous]

OP here. Thanks especially to the MS teacher. We are coming from private schools and are familiar with similar systems but was unsure of who to contact when coming into the high school brand new. I am thinking of suggesting my ds send an email to one of his teachers from his gmail account asking how to get into these systems. Also how will he be told about how to get his gmail account?
He is using google doca with his personal account for hia summer assignments

[Anonymous]

It will all be spelled out when school starts. No need to do anything now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It will all be spelled out when school starts. No need to do anything now.

Yes, your child is supposed to get specific info from each teacher and the teachers are unlikely to respond today or tomorrow to an email about Edline, Google Classroom, or Edmodo. However, you may want to have your DS verify by the end of the week that he has received what he needs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Thanks especially to the MS teacher. We are coming from private schools and are familiar with similar systems but was unsure of who to contact when coming into the high school brand new. I am thinking of suggesting my ds send an email to one of his teachers from his gmail account asking how to get into these systems. Also how will he be told about how to get his gmail account?
He is using google doca with his personal account for hia summer assignments

FAQs:
What is my (student) login and password?
Your log in is your student [e-mail]. EX: [e-mail].
Your password is the same password you use to log into any school network computer.
This was given to students at the beginning of the year and can be retrieved by any teacher if needed.

[Anonymous]

Also turnitin.com is only used for certain writing assignments. It is unlikely your child will have do trying like that due right away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is turnitin? Is it part of edline?

TurnItIn is a scam that makes money from your child's work. Students submit assignments to TurnItIn. The paper is compared with TurnItIn's entire database of works, which includes professional papers, articles, and also the works of most of the students who submitted assignments to TurnItIn. The teacher receives a report about the originality of the paper. The "similarity index" identifies where the child's paper is similar to other words. There is expected to be some similarity, as research papers and analyses paraphrase or quote other works. The site does a good job of identifying plagiarism.

The issue I have is not with the standard line about copyright infringement. I find it VILE that the site MAKES MONEY based on the words submitted to it. That's right! Your child's writing is used to expand TurnItIn's database, which is a major selling point. You are PAYING TAXES so that the school can PAY TurnItIn to make money on YOUR CHILD's WORK! There is a way to opt out of being in the database, but the child cannot choose this--only the teacher can!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is turnitin? Is it part of edline?

TurnItIn is a scam that makes money from your child's work. Students submit assignments to TurnItIn. The paper is compared with TurnItIn's entire database of works, which includes professional papers, articles, and also the works of most of the students who submitted assignments to TurnItIn. The teacher receives a report about the originality of the paper. The "similarity index" identifies where the child's paper is similar to other words. There is expected to be some similarity, as research papers and analyses paraphrase or quote other works. The site does a good job of identifying plagiarism.

The issue I have is not with the standard line about copyright infringement. I find it VILE that the site MAKES MONEY based on the words submitted to it. That's right! Your child's writing is used to expand TurnItIn's database, which is a major selling point. You are PAYING TAXES so that the school can PAY TurnItIn to make money on YOUR CHILD's WORK! There is a way to opt out of being in the database, but the child cannot choose this--only the teacher can!

What would be your alternative to identifying plagiarism?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is turnitin? Is it part of edline?

TurnItIn is a scam that makes money from your child's work. Students submit assignments to TurnItIn. The paper is compared with TurnItIn's entire database of works, which includes professional papers, articles, and also the works of most of the students who submitted assignments to TurnItIn. The teacher receives a report about the originality of the paper. The "similarity index" identifies where the child's paper is similar to other words. There is expected to be some similarity, as research papers and analyses paraphrase or quote other works. The site does a good job of identifying plagiarism.

The issue I have is not with the standard line about copyright infringement. I find it VILE that the site MAKES MONEY based on the words submitted to it. That's right! Your child's writing is used to expand TurnItIn's database, which is a major selling point. You are PAYING TAXES so that the school can PAY TurnItIn to make money on YOUR CHILD's WORK! There is a way to opt out of being in the database, but the child cannot choose this--only the teacher can!

What would be your alternative to identifying plagiarism?

PP here. I have no problem with TurnItIn if the STUDENT is able to flag papers so that they are not entered into the database--only checked against the other entries in it. That is the only moral alternative.