Training on Turnitin: plagiarism & similarity checker for LIS Professionals, held at ULAB Library
Press Release
ULAB Library of University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB) organised a training session on Turnitin: plagiarism & similarity checker for LIS Professionals on 20 June 2022 at 11 am online via video conferencing. Turnitin is a text-matching software to detect similarities between submission and previously presented work.
Lt Col Md. Foyzul Islam (Retd.), Registrar, ULAB, delivered a welcome address in the session, while Mr K.M. Hasan Emam, Joint Librarian and Library Head, ULAB, conducted the training session as a resource person.
Sixty-four participants from 54 different private and public university libraries, institutions and research organisations attended this training session. Some participants also joined from overseas.
Professionals from different organisations appreciated the ULAB Library initiative regarding knowledge sharing as the session was interactive. Participants express their interest in participating in more sessions like this.
The training program ended with a Q/A session.
Southeast University Library with the cooperation of Mr. Varun Piplani (Senior Specialist) Turnitin Education Pvt. Ltd arranged an online training session on “How to use Turnitin software” for their faculty members on 24th December, 2021. The session began with a special speech delivered by Mr. Varun Piplani on the importance of using Turnitin software in public and private universities. Then he demonstrated a few important features of Turnitin software as well as showed how to check the similarity of a research paper. As an administrator Mrs. Amrita Rani Dash moderated the session. The convenor of Turnitin Software Purchase Committee of Southeast University Prof. Dr. Engr. Muhibul Haque Bhuyan thanked everyone and concluded the program.