Submit on Behalf of Students, Turnitin, and End-User License Agreements

[james_whalley]

We were just about to turn on the feature option allowing faculty to submit assignments on behalf of students when we really started to think about the implications when Turnitin is enabled for an assignment. By allowing faculty to submit assignments on behalf of students, we would be removing students from the process and removing their opportunity to agree to Turnitin's End-User License Agreement. Have any other schools worried about this at all?

[Hildi_Pardo]

Hi, I had not thought about it, but just in general I think the Submit on Behalf of Students would be used sparingly, for unique situations -- and many of those assignments might not even be reviewed by TurnItIn.   Is this needed a lot at your district, where you submit for many students AND the assignment also is reviewed by TurnItIn?  I suppose an option might be to have a student request to have their work submitted on their behalf and with that request they also agree to the license, or before you submit on their behalf you confirm with them that they agree.

[hburgiel]

Thanks for asking this question -- it just came up here.

I work in higher education, and can reasonably expect students to notice whether an assignment uses Turnitin or not. If they've given the instructor an electronic version of the paper and the assignment uses Turnitin, I think we can argue that the student implicitly agreed to the license. But I would very much prefer not to have to argue at all.

I think we're going to turn on the feature and hope for the best. I'll be following this thread to see if an easy way of confirming acceptance of the agreement emerges.