Turnitin

Turnitin is your partner in education with integrity. Turnitin’s originality checking and authorship investigation services ensure academic integrity, promote critical thinking, and help students improve their authentic writing. Turnitin provides instructors with the tools to prevent plagiarism, engage students in the writing process, and provide personalized feedback. Turnitin is used by more than 30 million students at 15,000 institutions in 140 countries. Turnitin is headquartered in Oakland, Calif., with international offices in Newcastle, U.K., Utrecht, Netherlands, Melbourne, Australia, Seoul, Korea and throughout Latin America. 65 billion web pages crawled. 845 million archived student papers 170 million journal articles

Melissa Lipscomb

CFO and Executive Vice President of Business Affairs

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Ouriginal

Acquisition in 2021
Ouriginal is the company that delivers cutting-edge technology in the field of text-matching and plagiarism prevention. Their software helps enhance the potential of students to think originally, saves time for teachers when evaluating assignments, and assists businesses in preserving their reputation.

ExamSoft

Acquisition in 2020
ExamSoft Worldwide, Inc. is an educational software company that specializes in providing comprehensive assessment solutions for students and educators. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Dallas, Texas, with an additional location in Delray Beach, Florida, the company offers various products designed for diverse educational fields, including nursing, law, and health sciences. Key offerings include ExamSoft Portal for item banking and exam authoring, and Examplify, which allows students to take exams offline on multiple devices. ExamSoft also provides tools such as SofTeach for exam building, SofTest for secure testing, and scoring solutions like SoftScore and PrintX. The company's services extend to onboarding, support, and continued education, catering to academic, certification, and licensing institutions worldwide. As of October 2020, ExamSoft operates as a subsidiary of Turnitin, LLC.

Gradescope

Acquisition in 2018
Gradescope, Inc. is a software company that provides a grading platform designed for educational institutions. Founded in 2014 and based in Berkeley, California, Gradescope allows instructors to efficiently grade paper-based assignments and exams online, significantly reducing grading time. The platform also offers detailed analytics on assignments and questions, enabling data-driven education for both teachers and students. With its user-friendly interface, Gradescope has been utilized to grade over 3 million pages of student work across more than 100 schools, serving over 30,000 students. As of October 2018, Gradescope operates as a subsidiary of Turnitin, LLC.

VeriCite

Acquisition in 2018
VeriCite provides originality checking tools that provide tight integrations into LMS workflows and a smooth customer experience. VeriCite offers educators an easier way to turn conversations about academic integrity into positive teaching moments. With VeriCite at your side, you’ll have a reliable solution for assessing originality that’s easier to use, easier to integrate and easier on the budget.

LightSide Labs

Acquisition in 2014
LightSide Labs develops technology for automated revision assistance and classroom support. Its software can instantly evaluate student writing. It can grade an essay on multiple rubric scales and highlight the writer’s strongest and weakest passages on each dimension. Independent research has repeatedly shown this technology is as accurate as human graders, looking for features that human graders look for like content mastery, style choices, and genre awareness.
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