11. Plagiarism and Referencing

11.6. Other things you should know

  • Turnitin stores a copy of most work submitted to it in its repository. This does not affect the ownership of or any copyright in the original work.
  • Staff may configure a Turnitin assignment such that copies of submissions are not stored in its database. This will be done for the draft submission point.
  • Staff on your course will ensure that no commercially or otherwise sensitive documents are stored in Turnitin’s repository.
  • You cannot opt out of having your work scanned by Turnitin, but if you believe that your work should be deleted after it is scanned you should contact pglaw-assessments@qmul.ac.uk