Tii News: submit.ac.uk now turnitinuk.com
Turnitin have updated their main web address to be http://www.turnitinuk.com/. This was prompted by the .ac.uk domain type as a designation for academic institutions and Turnitin, as a commercial enterprise, should have a .com domain type. The ac.uk domain was a remnant of JISCs initial involvement in hosting Turnitin for UK educational institutions. This change will not affect your use of Turnitin through studentcentral. If you use the TurnitinUK iPad app at present it still says submit.ac.uk on the initial setup page, but it will automatically redirect the app and obtain your submission points through your existing Turnitin account as expected. For users of the iPad app we advise that you continue to add submission points using the ‘login with an access code’ method as outlined on the following IS guidance page: http://staff.brighton.ac.uk/is/learningandteaching/Pages/Turnitin/Turnitin-Downloading-the-Turnitin-App-for-iPad.aspx
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