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Guidelines for the use of Turnitin at RMIT

There is full disclosure of the use of this software to all students in the courses in which Turnitin is used and originality reports are set as “viewable by students”
Upon detection of non-original work with the software, the responsible academic will inform the student that their assessable work must be original. Provide the student with information on how to avoid plagiarism, and require that the work be resubmitted within a limited timeframe.
There is scope for variability in the number of assessment resubmissions acceptable within a given program, with the determination to be at the discretion of the Head of School, in conjunction with the relevant course and program coordinators. Any action on student plagiarism must be in full alignment with the Plagiarism Policy, with output from Turnitin available as evidence only, and not a singular determinant in the judgement of the plagiarism hearing.