Turnitin, LLC

Turnitin, LLC is a global education technology company founded in 1998. It partners with educational institutions to uphold academic integrity and improve learning outcomes, working across plagiarism detection, AI writing assessment, text similarity analysis, automated grading workflows and research integrity tools. The company reports serving more than 16,000 institutions and over 71 million students worldwide, with a presence spanning higher education, the wider education sector and research and scholarly publishing.

Its product suite covers several parts of the assessment and integrity workflow. Similarity provides plagiarism detection and text similarity analysis; Feedback Studio is designed to uphold academic standards while offering feedback intended to foster original thinking; Gradescope supports grading workflows for educators and learners; ExamSoft is an assessment solution directed at maintaining academic standards; and iThenticate checks the originality of scholarly work for researchers and publishers.

Turnitin describes its work as mission-driven, focused on the integrity of global education and research, with educators and learners placed at the centre of product development. Its stated priorities include academic honesty, consistency and fairness, support for original thinking and meaningful feedback, and adaptation to a changing educational landscape that includes AI and new models of learning.