Turnitin, LLC

Turnitin, LLC is an education technology company founded in 1998. Its work concentrates on plagiarism detection, text similarity analysis, AI writing assessment, automated grading workflows and research integrity tools. The company sells into education and academic research, serving higher education, K-12 institutions, scholarly publishers and research organisations on a global basis.

The product portfolio includes Feedback Studio, which supports academic standards and provides feedback intended to foster original thinking; Gradescope, a grading workflow tool; ExamSoft, an assessment product; Similarity, a plagiarism detection and text similarity product; and iThenticate, which checks the originality of scholarly work for researchers and publishers. Taken together, these cover the chain from submission and originality checking through feedback and grading.

Turnitin reports that its software is used by more than 16,000 institutions and over 71 million students. The company describes its work as mission-driven, with a stated focus on the integrity of education and research and on placing educators and learners at the centre of product decisions. Emphasis is placed on academic honesty, consistency and fairness, and on continued development of tools as AI and digital instruments change how written work is produced and assessed.